VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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: 26
- Position: #3623 / 7363
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #760 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #3331 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 2
Unsemantic linewrapping - 890 entries
[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #107 / 224
- Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #670 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #953 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #277 / 516
- Number of attempts: 5
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #591 / 630
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #966 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 7
Com(m)a Trouble - 3668 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #710 / 826
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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: 22
- Position: #230 / 376
- Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1474 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: 18
- Position: #248 / 450
- Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #451 / 581
- Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #1062 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 3
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 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: 20
- Position: #181 / 203
- Number of attempts: 2
Join 'em - 248 entries
This shouldn't be too tough
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #96 / 148
- Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 784 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #161 / 384
- Number of attempts: 2
change parenthesis - 278 entries
change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #47 / 156
- Number of attempts: 2
Reorder the groups - 1137 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #156 / 259
- Number of attempts: 4
move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #117 / 135
- Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 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: #70 / 223
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #903 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 15
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #707 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1414 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 8
switch variable - 5031 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #955 / 1735
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1752 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 3
Chris Shorrock
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