VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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 / 7517
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4707 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #772 / 1294
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1517 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4885 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #668 / 1915
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10956 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #101 / 3098
- Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 8003 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #149 / 1901
- Number of attempts: 6
From argument to object - 1566 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 / 471
- Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2924 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 / 647
- Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11620 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1256 / 4258
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #177 / 1281
- Number of attempts: 11
ninja substitution - 1439 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #34 / 271
- Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 8021 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #477 / 2158
- Number of attempts: 5
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 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 / 214
- Number of attempts: 6
convert yml into java pojo field - 879 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 / 233
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4342 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #432 / 1200
- Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #892 / 4225
- Number of attempts: 5
Letter case trickery - 1688 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 / 526
- Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 13054 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1014 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #2876 / 3907
- Number of attempts: 1
