VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Many duplicates - 1459 entries
Quick and easy
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #12 / 476
- Number of attempts: 7
delete swap - 1814 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #141 / 565
- Number of attempts: 6
Fix the shell script! - 2606 entries
Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #39 / 607
- Number of attempts: 9
Wikitext headings to markdown - 1003 entries
Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #64 / 210
- Number of attempts: 19
hello-world-vimgolf - 2506 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #229 / 713
- Number of attempts: 4
Fill in the chess board - 959 entries
Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 160
- Position: #180 / 185
- Number of attempts: 2
swap number pairs - 2140 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #201 / 389
- Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #426 / 1551
- Number of attempts: 9
Add semicolons - 10905 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2832 / 3079
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5010 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #705 / 1632
- Number of attempts: 6
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 547 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #96 / 131
- Number of attempts: 6
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1007 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #258 / 384
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16075 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1125 / 4198
- Number of attempts: 10
quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: #355 / 1085
- Number of attempts: 5
A simple change - 476 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #50 / 196
- Number of attempts: 11
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1136 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #134 / 449
- Number of attempts: 8
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #761 / 779
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5089 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #659 / 1751
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse Simple Deletion - 859 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #368 / 462
- Number of attempts: 8
The Cake is a Lie - 1376 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #274 / 535
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse characters in a line - 778 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #21 / 268
- Number of attempts: 6
Andrii Soldatenko
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