VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: #3351 / 7450
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18784 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1882 / 3878
- Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2907 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #147 / 860
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2154 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #577 / 635
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #899 / 1173
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3895 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #733 / 883
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7954 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #1140 / 1886
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1542 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: #339 / 384
- Number of attempts: 1
html paragraph to table - 606 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 57
- Position: #60 / 126
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1134 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11500 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2835 / 4216
- Number of attempts: 2
ninja substitution - 1420 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #220 / 267
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7968 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1380 / 2144
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2239 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: #617 / 680
- Number of attempts: 1
No naked if allowed! - 39 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: #13 / 17
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1855 / 4194
- Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3525 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #501 / 706
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12969 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2479 / 3970
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5085 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1230 / 1750
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7229 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #848 / 1778
- Number of attempts: 1
