VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33746 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: #2660 / 7449
- Number of attempts: 12
One number per line - 18780 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #945 / 3877
- Number of attempts: 8
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2900 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #143 / 859
- Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #175 / 1172
- Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3890 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #247 / 882
- Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7939 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #610 / 1885
- Number of attempts: 9
Extract argument from function - 2369 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #227 / 756
- Number of attempts: 8
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #574 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #204 / 701
- Number of attempts: 11
comment and uncomment code inline - 1146 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 / 327
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11497 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1225 / 4215
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment each number - 1036 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #214 / 252
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 847 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 / 406
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple format (2) - 335 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #28 / 70
- Number of attempts: 11
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #864 / 4194
- Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: #1081 / 1085
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12969 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #980 / 3970
- Number of attempts: 10
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #111 / 779
- Number of attempts: 14
Simple text editing with Vim - 13092 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1765 / 3765
- Number of attempts: 5
