Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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: #1667 / 7363
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #260 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1853 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #330 / 569
- Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #140 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7827 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #13 / 1864
- Number of attempts: 7
Cool or not? - 793 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #149 / 226
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 21
- Position: #215 / 376
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 15
- Position: #236 / 635
- Number of attempts: 8
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: 16
- Position: #536 / 744
- Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #366 / 695
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #256 / 314
- Number of attempts: 1
Flip the bit - 119 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #54 / 70
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11358 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2800 / 4163
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #213 / 581
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #1055 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7797 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #950 / 2099
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
- Position: #439 / 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: 15
- Position: #95 / 203
- Number of attempts: 7
Increment each number - 977 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #100 / 242
- Number of attempts: 8
Delete to the end of the current line - 784 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #95 / 384
- Number of attempts: 2
move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #109 / 135
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 29
- Position: #58 / 223
- Number of attempts: 3
unknown command - 158 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #75 / 83
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #408 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 7
Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 81 entries
Here you need complete 2 tasks: 1. Remove all unwanted continuous blank lines and leave only 1 blank line between paragraphs. 2. Properly capitalize the sentences.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #9 / 23
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2275 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #248 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #3165 / 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: 15
- Position: #483 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 5
Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 188 entries
1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #64 / 76
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5031 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #947 / 1735
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12280 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1704 / 3579
- Number of attempts: 4