Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 26
- Position: #3604 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #929 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #3000 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #441 / 569
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #1705 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #357 / 840
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #142 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 6
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #515 / 827
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #819 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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: 28
- Position: #323 / 376
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1474 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: 22
- Position: #388 / 450
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #503 / 700
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2840 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #284 / 635
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #223 / 744
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #562 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 3
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 538 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: 44
- Position: #117 / 127
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #475 / 695
- Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #257 / 314
- Number of attempts: 2
Flip the bit - 119 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #14 / 70
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3556 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #545 / 581
- Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 531 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #40 / 131
- Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #160 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 10
Adam's challenge - 957 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: #190 / 266
- Number of attempts: 4
ninja substitution - 1372 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #240 / 261
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1359 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2165 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: #66 / 662
- Number of attempts: 3
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #188 / 203
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 977 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #192 / 242
- Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 791 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #96 / 385
- Number of attempts: 2
move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #82 / 135
- Number of attempts: 4
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 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: 35
- Position: #180 / 223
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3308 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1012 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1978 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #367 / 578
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2360 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: 17
- Position: #924 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2456 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #480 / 768
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1524 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1708 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 1