VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: #7251 / 7509
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4703 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1093 / 1291
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18896 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3242 / 3902
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2549 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 151
- Position: #591 / 593
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4864 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1879 / 1912
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #823 / 866
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2174 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #627 / 638
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #882 / 909
- Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1556 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: #358 / 386
- Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2911 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #589 / 645
- Number of attempts: 5
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 562 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: #116 / 134
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11613 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3609 / 4253
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8011 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #2102 / 2153
- Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 874 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: #204 / 232
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple format (2) - 343 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #50 / 72
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4333 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #1188 / 1197
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #3863 / 4222
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #3425 / 3712
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13034 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2471 / 3988
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #3703 / 3892
- Number of attempts: 3
