Played Challenges
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1231 entries
Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #82 / 260
- Number of attempts: 2
Fill in the chess board - 933 entries
Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #55 / 180
- Number of attempts: 5
Lowercase first characters - 484 entries
This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #11 / 181
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment number for every 10 lines - 229 entries
The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #1 / 63
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 entries
Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #1264 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4554 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #591 / 1259
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #387 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1278 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2131 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #132 / 633
- Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1488 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #139 / 378
- Number of attempts: 2
From argument to object - 1481 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #227 / 453
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2902 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #222 / 702
- Number of attempts: 5
Copy three lines - 2869 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #88 / 639
- Number of attempts: 6
Array propagate - 332 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #6 / 117
- Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2337 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #354 / 750
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #855 / 1604
- Number of attempts: 3
comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #180 / 316
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2600 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1812 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #112 / 585
- Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 532 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #16 / 132
- Number of attempts: 2
Subnetting - 112 entries
Split up the IP addresses in the right way.
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #28 / 37
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 259 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #22 / 139
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 860 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #67 / 211
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #98 / 1260
- Number of attempts: 4
Adam's challenge - 958 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #115 / 267
- Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 841 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #106 / 288
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #793 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 4
Order and join - 965 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #117 / 258
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4267 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #351 / 1188
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #196 / 442
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #706 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1996 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #215 / 581
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2274 / 3677
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3454 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #210 / 695
- Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3128 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #477 / 1073
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2412 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #164 / 748
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #196 / 772
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #931 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1631 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #1027 / 1652
- Number of attempts: 2
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