VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Rural Post - 4451 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #196 / 1090
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33552 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: #2811 / 7401
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4606 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #356 / 1265
- Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6288 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #434 / 1532
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18705 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #763 / 3855
- Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4796 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #790 / 1891
- Number of attempts: 8
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2859 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #25 / 845
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10841 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1766 / 3058
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #850 / 1157
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #166 / 855
- Number of attempts: 11
Box it - 7897 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #808 / 1872
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2910 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #526 / 703
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2354 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #393 / 751
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4956 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #707 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11418 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #3189 / 4182
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5644 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #270 / 1262
- Number of attempts: 13
Vice versa - 7891 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #599 / 2121
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4298 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #523 / 1190
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15956 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1126 / 4171
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #432 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3154 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 / 1075
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12918 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1173 / 3957
- Number of attempts: 6
Vertical Limit - 2522 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #99 / 751
- Number of attempts: 7
replacing each line of a block selection - 2987 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #230 / 774
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5061 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #664 / 1743
- Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1039 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 / 658
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #450 / 457
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3577 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #151 / 773
- Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1220 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #79 / 327
- Number of attempts: 9
Simple text editing with Vim - 12632 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 / 3655
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6839 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #1206 / 1675
- Number of attempts: 2
