VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Rural Post - 4572 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #196 / 1116
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: 23
- Position: #2831 / 7474
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4661 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #356 / 1282
- Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #434 / 1555
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18831 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #763 / 3889
- Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4830 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #790 / 1903
- Number of attempts: 8
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #25 / 863
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10916 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1774 / 3085
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #858 / 1177
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3941 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #166 / 892
- Number of attempts: 11
Box it - 7962 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #811 / 1891
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2925 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #528 / 707
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2376 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #396 / 759
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #707 / 1637
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11541 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #3197 / 4230
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5699 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #270 / 1273
- Number of attempts: 13
Vice versa - 7974 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #599 / 2146
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4317 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #523 / 1194
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1126 / 4202
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #432 / 1140
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #361 / 1086
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12992 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1181 / 3977
- Number of attempts: 6
Vertical Limit - 2596 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #99 / 767
- Number of attempts: 7
replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #230 / 780
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5094 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #664 / 1754
- Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1067 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: #557 / 671
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #456 / 463
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3852 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #156 / 829
- Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1401 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #88 / 358
- Number of attempts: 9
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #675 / 3810
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #1265 / 1825
- Number of attempts: 2
