VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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 / 7330
- Number of attempts: 12
Swap values - 4513 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #228 / 1250
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18559 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #481 / 3830
- Number of attempts: 14
Swap values inside brackets - 2443 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #417 / 566
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4717 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #560 / 1874
- Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2820 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #87 / 834
- Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3502 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #2 / 1134
- Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3552 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #12 / 798
- Number of attempts: 9
Box it - 7782 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #23 / 1853
- Number of attempts: 10
Cool or not? - 773 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #5 / 222
- Number of attempts: 11
multiple cursor alternative - 1460 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 / 374
- Number of attempts: 5
From argument to object - 1448 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 / 443
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2869 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #221 / 695
- Number of attempts: 18
Extract argument from function - 2283 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #225 / 739
- Number of attempts: 7
Number Sort - 300 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 / 160
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11318 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1097 / 4152
- Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1795 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #144 / 578
- Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 529 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 / 130
- Number of attempts: 10
Basic renumbering - 5514 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #115 / 1249
- Number of attempts: 8
Vice versa - 7675 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #363 / 2078
- Number of attempts: 7
One to Ten - 2128 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 / 652
- Number of attempts: 3
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 627 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: #123 / 200
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2345 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #112 / 439
- Number of attempts: 11
Collect List - 4228 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #367 / 1179
- Number of attempts: 10
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #741 / 4146
- Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2289 / 3653
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12821 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1646 / 3938
- Number of attempts: 4
Santa's naughty / nice list - 77 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: #21 / 23
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 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 / 3502
- Number of attempts: 4
