VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 680 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #48 / 387
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #113 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 939 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: #210 / 365
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 293 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #4 / 146
- Number of attempts: 2
Case preserving word replacement - 453 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: 20
- Position: #70 / 179
- Number of attempts: 6
The holy-grail may help - 345 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #74 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 832 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #99 / 215
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1001 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #184 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 456 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #66 / 172
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 16
- Position: #131 / 230
- Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 457 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #61 / 175
- Number of attempts: 4
Almost encrypted - 198 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #60 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #47 / 558
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #62 / 529
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #164 / 384
- Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 885 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #50 / 289
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #163 / 737
- Number of attempts: 7
Flodder-challenge - 1118 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #41 / 311
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #835 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #402 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 1
