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: 25
- Position: #3367 / 7500
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18889 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1891 / 3898
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #149 / 865
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2174 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #580 / 638
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #906 / 1181
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #754 / 908
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7997 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #1144 / 1897
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1556 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: 29
- Position: #341 / 386
- Number of attempts: 1
html paragraph to table - 634 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 57
- Position: #61 / 130
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1153 / 1662
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11572 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2843 / 4240
- Number of attempts: 2
ninja substitution - 1436 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #222 / 270
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7997 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1383 / 2152
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2247 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: 23
- Position: #620 / 685
- Number of attempts: 1
No naked if allowed! - 43 entries
House style forbids naked condition statements, comments should start with a space character and be on their own line. Good luck!
- Best score: 46
- Best player score: 71
- Position: #14 / 18
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1867 / 4216
- Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3565 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #503 / 709
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13028 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2487 / 3984
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5110 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1236 / 1758
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #881 / 1871
- Number of attempts: 1
