VimGolfPlayed Challenges
HS Final exam vimgolf - 912 entries
Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #134 / 240
- Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4567 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #221 / 1114
- Number of attempts: 3
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1015 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #84 / 319
- Number of attempts: 5
Multiline to Single Line - 737 entries
Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #10 / 313
- Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 724 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #51 / 225
- Number of attempts: 5
Yo To Hello - 1151 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #140 / 533
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 entries
For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #19 / 233
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: #1634 / 7454
- Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #218 / 1551
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18797 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #662 / 3879
- Number of attempts: 13
Quote modules - 1094 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #233 / 285
- Number of attempts: 1
Unsemantic linewrapping - 934 entries
[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #142 / 233
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4824 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #733 / 1899
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10899 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1493 / 3078
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #117 / 886
- Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #653 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11509 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #3078 / 4218
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7968 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #402 / 2144
- Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2240 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: #46 / 681
- Number of attempts: 7
Build a six - 306 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #16 / 99
- Number of attempts: 6
Delete to the end of the current line - 849 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #233 / 407
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2430 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #31 / 451
- Number of attempts: 25
Not enough Ps - 67 entries
Different type of code
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #23 / 36
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1388 / 4195
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #289 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: 14
- Position: #341 / 1085
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12975 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1112 / 3971
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13127 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #635 / 3775
- Number of attempts: 3
