VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 27
- Position: #3960 / 7513
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #431 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4883 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #1719 / 1914
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1591 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: #146 / 388
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #515 / 1674
- Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2646 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #180 / 711
- Number of attempts: 6
comment and uncomment code inline - 1182 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: #192 / 332
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11616 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1084 / 4255
- Number of attempts: 3
Adam's challenge - 1042 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: 22
- Position: #194 / 281
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8019 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1348 / 2157
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4341 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #990 / 1200
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #749 / 4224
- Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2330 / 3715
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: #485 / 1093
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13053 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #885 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5128 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #506 / 1764
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2220 / 3902
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #1597 / 1889
- Number of attempts: 1
