VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: 22
- Position: #2086 / 7503
- Number of attempts: 14
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 951 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #21 / 270
- Number of attempts: 13
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #47 / 1559
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18889 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #614 / 3898
- Number of attempts: 12
Add semicolons - 10943 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1350 / 3093
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3645 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #367 / 1182
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #100 / 908
- Number of attempts: 11
Cool or not? - 854 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #54 / 235
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2945 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #366 / 710
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #641 / 1667
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2624 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #221 / 708
- Number of attempts: 9
One to Ten - 2248 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: #259 / 686
- Number of attempts: 10
Delete to the end of the current line - 866 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #209 / 416
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4332 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #462 / 1196
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #993 / 4218
- Number of attempts: 13
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #278 / 1143
- Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3200 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #336 / 1091
- Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 13032 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1086 / 3986
- Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #119 / 786
- Number of attempts: 15
Niklas Ydebäck
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Msc Student Mechanical Engineering at Luleå University of technology