Played 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: 27
- Position: #3976 / 7363
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #560 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 13
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 189 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #32 / 99
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #469 / 569
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 23
- Position: #221 / 224
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #684 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #191 / 840
- Number of attempts: 6
Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #22 / 254
- Number of attempts: 12
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 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 / 244
- Number of attempts: 11
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #245 / 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: 19
- Position: #119 / 516
- Number of attempts: 10
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #466 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #298 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3668 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #66 / 826
- Number of attempts: 10
Box it - 7827 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #684 / 1864
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 20
- Position: #173 / 376
- Number of attempts: 6
Copy three lines - 2840 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 / 635
- Number of attempts: 13
comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 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 / 314
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11358 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1293 / 4163
- Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 531 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: #116 / 131
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #289 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 9
Vice versa - 7797 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #498 / 2099
- Number of attempts: 6
Align commas - 1049 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: #102 / 241
- Number of attempts: 13
One to Ten - 2165 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 / 662
- Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2004 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #352 / 496
- Number of attempts: 5
Build a six - 272 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #72 / 92
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #180 / 384
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove quotes after first field - 353 entries
Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #20 / 87
- Number of attempts: 7
Reorder the groups - 1137 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #51 / 259
- Number of attempts: 18
move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #60 / 135
- Number of attempts: 9
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: #76 / 223
- Number of attempts: 10
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1191 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #714 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1434 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1028 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 13
- Position: #601 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 5