VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Rural Post - 4379 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #196 / 1074
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33400 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: #2803 / 7369
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4548 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #356 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6223 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #434 / 1519
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18627 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #763 / 3843
- Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4752 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #790 / 1880
- Number of attempts: 8
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #25 / 840
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10795 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1763 / 3045
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3541 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #845 / 1145
- 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: #166 / 827
- Number of attempts: 11
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #807 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2894 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #525 / 701
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2316 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #388 / 745
- 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: #707 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #3186 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #270 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 13
Vice versa - 7806 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #599 / 2102
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #523 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1126 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #430 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #361 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1170 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 6
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #99 / 738
- Number of attempts: 7
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #225 / 768
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #664 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #557 / 643
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #447 / 454
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3360 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #143 / 739
- Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1118 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #73 / 311
- Number of attempts: 9
Simple text editing with Vim - 12304 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 / 3585
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6603 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #1177 / 1621
- Number of attempts: 2
