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: 22
- Position: #1341 / 7513
- Number of attempts: 12
Swap values - 4705 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #228 / 1293
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #481 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 14
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #439 / 594
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4883 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #560 / 1914
- Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #92 / 867
- Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #2 / 1185
- Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #12 / 910
- Number of attempts: 9
Box it - 8003 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #23 / 1901
- Number of attempts: 10
Cool or not? - 881 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #5 / 237
- Number of attempts: 11
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: 19
- Position: #52 / 388
- Number of attempts: 5
From argument to object - 1566 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: 17
- Position: #90 / 471
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2951 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #225 / 712
- Number of attempts: 18
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #225 / 772
- Number of attempts: 7
Number Sort - 328 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #23 / 173
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11616 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1097 / 4255
- Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1861 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #144 / 596
- Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 553 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: #29 / 137
- Number of attempts: 10
Basic renumbering - 5733 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #115 / 1279
- Number of attempts: 8
Vice versa - 8019 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #363 / 2157
- Number of attempts: 7
One to Ten - 2258 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #71 / 688
- Number of attempts: 3
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #133 / 214
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2481 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #116 / 461
- Number of attempts: 11
Collect List - 4341 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #367 / 1200
- Number of attempts: 10
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #741 / 4224
- Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2322 / 3715
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13053 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1673 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 4
Santa's naughty / nice list - 113 entries
Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 58
- Position: #26 / 29
- 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: 13
- Position: #531 / 3902
- Number of attempts: 4
