VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33969 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: #3093 / 7502
- Number of attempts: 5
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #144 / 268
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4701 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #615 / 1290
- Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #1335 / 1559
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18889 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #453 / 3898
- Number of attempts: 6
Quote modules - 1100 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #124 / 288
- Number of attempts: 3
Aliases for cd - 908 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 / 158
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4860 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #584 / 1910
- Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #456 / 865
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10934 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #2779 / 3092
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2079 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #184 / 541
- Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2174 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #305 / 638
- Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #936 / 1181
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #518 / 908
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7997 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #931 / 1897
- Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1556 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: #219 / 386
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2945 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #17 / 710
- Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2909 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #331 / 644
- Number of attempts: 4
Number Sort - 321 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 / 171
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11582 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1141 / 4243
- Number of attempts: 6
Team names - 1858 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #166 / 594
- Number of attempts: 3
Learn some german verbs - 547 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 / 135
- Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #704 / 1277
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8011 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #385 / 2153
- Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2247 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 / 685
- Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2093 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #264 / 514
- Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2472 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #126 / 458
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16178 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1435 / 4217
- Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #373 / 1143
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2344 / 3711
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13029 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1689 / 3985
- Number of attempts: 4
