VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Rural Post - 4602 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #196 / 1124
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #2840 / 7513
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4705 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #356 / 1293
- Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #434 / 1562
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18903 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #763 / 3904
- Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4883 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #790 / 1914
- Number of attempts: 8
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #25 / 867
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10956 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1780 / 3098
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #861 / 1185
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #166 / 910
- Number of attempts: 11
Box it - 8003 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #813 / 1901
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2951 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #532 / 712
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #403 / 772
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #707 / 1674
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11616 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #3203 / 4255
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #270 / 1280
- Number of attempts: 13
Vice versa - 8019 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #599 / 2157
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4341 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #523 / 1200
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1126 / 4224
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #434 / 1146
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3202 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 / 1093
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13053 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1186 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 6
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #99 / 778
- Number of attempts: 7
replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #232 / 789
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5128 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #664 / 1764
- Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1091 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 / 680
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #459 / 466
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4044 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #163 / 862
- Number of attempts: 10
Flodder-challenge - 1500 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #93 / 378
- Number of attempts: 9
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 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 / 3902
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #1304 / 1889
- Number of attempts: 2
