VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: 42
- Position: #7233 / 7489
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4667 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1089 / 1284
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18840 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3235 / 3893
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 151
- Position: #588 / 590
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4833 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1872 / 1904
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #821 / 864
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2156 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #625 / 636
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #874 / 901
- Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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: 33
- Position: #357 / 385
- Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2882 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #586 / 642
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 42
- Position: #115 / 133
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11555 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3597 / 4234
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7981 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #2097 / 2147
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 37
- Position: #203 / 231
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple format (2) - 342 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #49 / 71
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4317 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #1185 / 1194
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #3853 / 4208
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #3418 / 3703
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13005 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2467 / 3979
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #3663 / 3846
- Number of attempts: 3
