VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: 24
- Position: #3097 / 7517
- Number of attempts: 5
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 954 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #145 / 272
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4707 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #616 / 1294
- Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #1338 / 1563
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #453 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 6
Quote modules - 1104 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #125 / 291
- Number of attempts: 3
Aliases for cd - 913 entries
Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #73 / 160
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4885 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #584 / 1915
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
- Position: #457 / 867
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10956 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #2785 / 3098
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #184 / 543
- Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2175 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #305 / 639
- Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #938 / 1185
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #519 / 910
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 8003 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #932 / 1901
- Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1592 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: 21
- Position: #221 / 388
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2951 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #17 / 712
- Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2924 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #332 / 647
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #61 / 173
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11620 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1141 / 4258
- Number of attempts: 6
Team names - 1861 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #166 / 596
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #32 / 137
- Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #707 / 1281
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8021 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #385 / 2158
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #270 / 688
- Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2095 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #265 / 515
- Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2481 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #126 / 461
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1439 / 4225
- Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #374 / 1147
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2346 / 3717
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13054 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1693 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 4
