VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Interweave two blocks of text - 641 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: #75 / 212
- Number of attempts: 2
Recursively Palindrome - 245 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #16 / 74
- Number of attempts: 9
replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #37 / 772
- Number of attempts: 11
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #41 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 7
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 978 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #46 / 188
- Number of attempts: 7
Sort the cardinal numbers - 294 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #75 / 147
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1955 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #5 / 643
- Number of attempts: 5
Line Zipper - 454 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #71 / 212
- Number of attempts: 3
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 508 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: #48 / 149
- Number of attempts: 3
Case preserving word replacement - 454 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 / 180
- Number of attempts: 6
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 157 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #14 / 68
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort entries based on date - 364 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #10 / 115
- Number of attempts: 3
Happy New Year! - 144 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #25 / 58
- Number of attempts: 4
imports alignment (python) - 663 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #16 / 196
- Number of attempts: 5
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 222 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #56 / 97
- Number of attempts: 2
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 392 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: #57 / 165
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 843 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #28 / 203
- Number of attempts: 8
Reformat long lines - 346 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: #58 / 133
- Number of attempts: 4
Generate English Alphabets - 476 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #49 / 205
- Number of attempts: 3
Insert a Markdown link - 434 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #54 / 145
- Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1869 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #285 / 646
- Number of attempts: 4
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 149 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 / 70
- Number of attempts: 3
Solve the Sokoban - 165 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #27 / 73
- Number of attempts: 3
The holy-grail may help - 352 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #81 / 207
- Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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 / 402
- Number of attempts: 9
CSV to JSON - 173 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
- Best score: 56
- Best player score: 79
- Position: #17 / 66
- Number of attempts: 4
Assignment Alignment - 842 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #62 / 217
- Number of attempts: 13
Shebangs for all - 1917 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: #101 / 502
- Number of attempts: 8
Letters are numbers - 154 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: #59 / 74
- Number of attempts: 1
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 238 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #16 / 86
- Number of attempts: 4
Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 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: #95 / 230
- Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 545 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 / 239
- Number of attempts: 2
Compile C - 366 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #44 / 133
- Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #66 / 237
- Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #39 / 340
- Number of attempts: 7
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #176 / 758
- Number of attempts: 14
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: 14
- Position: #840 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 4
Contributed Challenges
Line Zipper - 454 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
