VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Interweave two blocks of text - 692 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #79 / 217
- Number of attempts: 2
Recursively Palindrome - 290 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #18 / 76
- Number of attempts: 9
replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #37 / 789
- Number of attempts: 11
switch variable - 5128 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #41 / 1764
- Number of attempts: 7
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1046 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #49 / 199
- Number of attempts: 7
Sort the cardinal numbers - 328 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #78 / 151
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2039 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #5 / 658
- Number of attempts: 5
Line Zipper - 480 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #75 / 217
- Number of attempts: 3
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 569 entries
I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #51 / 152
- Number of attempts: 3
Case preserving word replacement - 477 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #13 / 186
- Number of attempts: 6
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 192 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #16 / 72
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort entries based on date - 432 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #10 / 121
- Number of attempts: 3
Happy New Year! - 150 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #26 / 61
- Number of attempts: 4
imports alignment (python) - 721 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #16 / 202
- Number of attempts: 5
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 238 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #59 / 101
- Number of attempts: 2
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 421 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #59 / 169
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 905 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #29 / 207
- Number of attempts: 8
Reformat long lines - 388 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #62 / 141
- Number of attempts: 4
Generate English Alphabets - 540 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #52 / 216
- Number of attempts: 3
Insert a Markdown link - 473 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #58 / 157
- Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1969 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #296 / 661
- Number of attempts: 4
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 185 entries
Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #14 / 77
- Number of attempts: 3
Solve the Sokoban - 202 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #30 / 76
- Number of attempts: 3
The holy-grail may help - 405 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #81 / 221
- Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #21 / 419
- Number of attempts: 9
CSV to JSON - 178 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
- Best score: 56
- Best player score: 79
- Position: #18 / 67
- Number of attempts: 4
Assignment Alignment - 909 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #64 / 226
- Number of attempts: 13
Shebangs for all - 2103 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #111 / 533
- Number of attempts: 8
Letters are numbers - 179 entries
Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #61 / 78
- Number of attempts: 1
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 280 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #16 / 92
- Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 compat - 661 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #100 / 241
- Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 605 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #46 / 255
- Number of attempts: 2
Compile C - 454 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #50 / 146
- Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 532 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #66 / 252
- Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #39 / 356
- Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4044 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #208 / 862
- Number of attempts: 14
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #904 / 3902
- Number of attempts: 4
Contributed Challenges
Line Zipper - 480 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
