Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: #1754 / 7330
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4513 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #747 / 1250
- Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18559 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1241 / 3830
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 2443 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #239 / 566
- Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4717 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1362 / 1874
- Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2820 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #367 / 834
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3502 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #594 / 1134
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3552 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #229 / 798
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7782 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #832 / 1853
- Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 729 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #95 / 172
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2869 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #38 / 695
- Number of attempts: 8
Extract argument from function - 2283 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #367 / 739
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #578 / 1578
- Number of attempts: 4
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 530 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: 33
- Position: #50 / 125
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2530 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #255 / 690
- Number of attempts: 7
comment and uncomment code inline - 1039 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: 10
- Position: #192 / 306
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11318 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2819 / 4152
- Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1795 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #226 / 578
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5514 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #299 / 1249
- Number of attempts: 8
Adam's challenge - 928 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: 18
- Position: #79 / 261
- Number of attempts: 5
42-header - 36 entries
Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #6 / 13
- Number of attempts: 8
ninja substitution - 1350 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #92 / 258
- Number of attempts: 8
Vice versa - 7675 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #462 / 2078
- Number of attempts: 4
Lower cased and dashed strings - 46 entries
As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)
- Best score: 59
- Best player score: 74
- Position: #10 / 18
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2128 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: #454 / 652
- Number of attempts: 6
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 627 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: #98 / 200
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 970 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #69 / 240
- Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 729 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #126 / 359
- Number of attempts: 2
Separating firstname & lastname - 117 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #8 / 54
- Number of attempts: 6
move titles next to url, in quotes - 501 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #16 / 133
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1839 / 4146
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2364 / 3653
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: 14
- Position: #313 / 1066
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12821 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1715 / 3938
- Number of attempts: 2
Resort and deup a CSV list - 140 entries
I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.
- Best score: 44
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #18 / 38
- Number of attempts: 9
switch variable - 5012 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #549 / 1728
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1273 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #217 / 510
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1710 / 3502
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6336 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #375 / 1561
- Number of attempts: 5