VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: 29
- Position: #4860 / 7503
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4703 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1162 / 1291
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 20
- Position: #1289 / 1559
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18889 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1320 / 3898
- Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4860 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1331 / 1910
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 18
- Position: #676 / 865
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap the operands under comparison - 318 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #81 / 106
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3645 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1013 / 1182
- Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #761 / 908
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1552 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: 20
- Position: #346 / 469
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 23
- Position: #528 / 644
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1424 / 1667
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #77 / 171
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11590 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2751 / 4246
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 1018 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #236 / 278
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8011 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #1889 / 2153
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4332 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #665 / 1196
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #3857 / 4218
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1011 / 1143
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13032 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3513 / 3986
- Number of attempts: 1
