VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #1853 / 7489
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4667 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #768 / 1284
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18840 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1511 / 3893
- Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4833 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #668 / 1904
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10923 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #101 / 3087
- Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7987 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #149 / 1895
- Number of attempts: 6
From argument to object - 1536 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #118 / 466
- Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2882 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #128 / 642
- Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11555 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1256 / 4234
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #177 / 1274
- Number of attempts: 11
ninja substitution - 1436 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #34 / 270
- Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7981 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #477 / 2147
- Number of attempts: 5
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 679 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: 14
- Position: #37 / 211
- Number of attempts: 6
convert yml into java pojo field - 873 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #67 / 231
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4317 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #432 / 1194
- Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #892 / 4208
- Number of attempts: 5
Letter case trickery - 1644 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #27 / 520
- Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 13005 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1010 / 3979
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #2839 / 3846
- Number of attempts: 1
