VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 14
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 877 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #21 / 254
- Number of attempts: 13
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #47 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #614 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 12
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1334 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #367 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #100 / 827
- Number of attempts: 11
Cool or not? - 793 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #54 / 226
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #360 / 700
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #641 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #221 / 695
- Number of attempts: 9
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: #259 / 662
- Number of attempts: 10
Delete to the end of the current line - 791 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 / 385
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #462 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #993 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 13
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #278 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1071 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #119 / 768
- Number of attempts: 15
Niklas Ydebäck
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Msc Student Mechanical Engineering at Luleå University of technology