Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: #1378 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #232 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #571 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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: #56 / 376
- Number of attempts: 6
From argument to object - 1474 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: #232 / 450
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #225 / 700
- Number of attempts: 6
Copy three lines - 2840 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #97 / 635
- Number of attempts: 8
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #524 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 3
Number Sort - 305 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: #55 / 163
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2672 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #155 / 581
- Number of attempts: 3
Learn some german verbs - 531 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: 22
- Position: #58 / 131
- Number of attempts: 3
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 257 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #94 / 138
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #121 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #372 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 5
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #197 / 443
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #374 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #330 / 440
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1153 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #679 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1275 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #210 / 692
- Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: 16
- Position: #643 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #889 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #509 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #535 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 4