Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: 27
- Position: #3986 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #560 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 13
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 194 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #32 / 101
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #473 / 573
- Number of attempts: 4
Unsemantic linewrapping - 901 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: 23
- Position: #223 / 226
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #684 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #192 / 843
- Number of attempts: 6
Add string initializers to an enum - 866 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #22 / 256
- Number of attempts: 12
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1203 entries
Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #16 / 247
- Number of attempts: 11
Add semicolons - 10831 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #245 / 3055
- Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 2009 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #122 / 518
- Number of attempts: 10
Split line with dots - 2131 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #467 / 633
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #298 / 1151
- Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #66 / 839
- Number of attempts: 10
Box it - 7849 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #686 / 1870
- Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1488 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: 20
- Position: #175 / 378
- Number of attempts: 6
Copy three lines - 2869 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #144 / 639
- Number of attempts: 13
comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #129 / 316
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1293 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 532 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #117 / 132
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #291 / 1260
- Number of attempts: 9
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #498 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 6
Align commas - 1063 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #104 / 243
- Number of attempts: 13
One to Ten - 2174 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: 12
- Position: #187 / 664
- Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2023 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #354 / 498
- Number of attempts: 5
Build a six - 277 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #74 / 94
- Number of attempts: 6
Delete to the end of the current line - 795 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #180 / 387
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove quotes after first field - 367 entries
Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #20 / 90
- Number of attempts: 7
Reorder the groups - 1146 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #51 / 262
- Number of attempts: 18
move titles next to url, in quotes - 510 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #61 / 137
- Number of attempts: 9
convert yml into java pojo field - 837 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: #76 / 225
- Number of attempts: 10
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1192 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #716 / 1132
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1434 / 3677
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1029 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #601 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 5