VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: #1564 / 7498
- Number of attempts: 12
Swap values - 4693 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #258 / 1289
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18889 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #2512 / 3898
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #6 / 591
- Number of attempts: 10
V to the i - 4848 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #1723 / 1907
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 15
- Position: #516 / 865
- Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3987 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #729 / 907
- Number of attempts: 1
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 557 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #102 / 133
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #92 / 171
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11572 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1176 / 4240
- Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1858 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #382 / 594
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #295 / 1277
- Number of attempts: 10
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: 22
- Position: #196 / 278
- Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 7995 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #961 / 2151
- Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2472 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #390 / 458
- Number of attempts: 4
convert yml into java pojo field - 873 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: 34
- Position: #180 / 231
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple format (2) - 342 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #50 / 71
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4332 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #601 / 1196
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1415 / 4216
- Number of attempts: 10
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1334 / 3710
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13024 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2471 / 3983
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2609 / 3865
- Number of attempts: 3
