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: 30
- Position: #5191 / 7517
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4707 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #902 / 1294
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #2938 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #365 / 594
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap the operands under comparison - 325 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #66 / 108
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #984 / 1185
- 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: 24
- Position: #291 / 388
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 21
- Position: #384 / 471
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2951 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #558 / 712
- Number of attempts: 7
Array propagate - 354 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #69 / 125
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #40 / 173
- Number of attempts: 1
Flip the bit - 144 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #57 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11620 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3552 / 4258
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1861 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #338 / 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: 31
- Position: #114 / 137
- Number of attempts: 1
Back to the roots - 80 entries
Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #42 / 43
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 954 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #181 / 223
- Number of attempts: 2
42-header - 56 entries
Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #12 / 19
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8021 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #795 / 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: 14
- Position: #416 / 688
- Number of attempts: 3
Build a six - 315 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #7 / 102
- Number of attempts: 6
Increment each number - 1067 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #157 / 260
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 882 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #386 / 418
- Number of attempts: 3
move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #114 / 149
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2481 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #402 / 461
- Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 879 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #97 / 233
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4342 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #845 / 1200
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2960 / 4225
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #3167 / 3717
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13054 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1629 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1661 / 3907
- Number of attempts: 6
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