VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33964 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: 23
- Position: #2676 / 7500
- Number of attempts: 12
One number per line - 18889 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #951 / 3898
- Number of attempts: 8
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #145 / 865
- Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #175 / 1181
- Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #253 / 908
- Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7997 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #612 / 1897
- Number of attempts: 9
Extract argument from function - 2397 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #227 / 766
- Number of attempts: 8
Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #574 / 1662
- Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2624 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #204 / 708
- Number of attempts: 11
comment and uncomment code inline - 1158 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: 9
- Position: #114 / 329
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11572 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1225 / 4240
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment each number - 1062 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #216 / 257
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 865 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #121 / 415
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple format (2) - 342 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #29 / 71
- Number of attempts: 11
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #864 / 4216
- Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3195 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: 40
- Position: #1085 / 1089
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13024 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #986 / 3983
- Number of attempts: 10
replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #111 / 785
- Number of attempts: 14
Simple text editing with Vim - 13509 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1789 / 3874
- Number of attempts: 5
