VimGolfPlayed Challenges
From brakets to parens - 862 entries
This is one of the most common problem when you wrap an array for error handling. Vim is useful when you convert foo[i][j][k] into foo(i, j, k) for many times.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #35 / 201
- Number of attempts: 8
Create json from a .env file - 1486 entries
A simple everyday task.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #40 / 346
- Number of attempts: 7
Reordering properties - 1120 entries
Arrange the CSS lines for the #topbar selector based on their complete line length, from shortest to longest.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #13 / 264
- Number of attempts: 15
Sort and Tag - 672 entries
The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.
- Best score: 36
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #31 / 139
- Number of attempts: 10
Format a long line - 125 entries
Reformat long lines (gq), textwidth=78, no trailing spaces.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #15 / 34
- Number of attempts: 4
Evil Numbers - 115 entries
Print the first 100 evil numbers https://oeis.org/A001969. This is an advert for code.golf https://code.golf/evil-numbers#viml
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #13 / 27
- Number of attempts: 8
Mirror image - 125 entries
Add the second eye
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #20 / 36
- Number of attempts: 2
Find anomalies - 163 entries
There is one special character per line
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #1 / 44
- Number of attempts: 3
Coordinate extraction - 66 entries
Get the coordinates of all "M"s from the Vim logo
- Best score: 43
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #3 / 17
- Number of attempts: 5
Morse - 178 entries
Translate Morse code to Text
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #5 / 36
- Number of attempts: 4
New teacher - 1465 entries
Update the details of the new CS teacher.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #49 / 306
- Number of attempts: 5
Replace word while reserving first letter case - 663 entries
Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #49 / 126
- Number of attempts: 7
months to html list items - 1130 entries
Turn the months into list items.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #90 / 306
- Number of attempts: 5
Quicksort - 2094 entries
We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #169 / 464
- Number of attempts: 7
EDN reformat - 1209 entries
The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #72 / 170
- Number of attempts: 8
Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 458 entries
Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #22 / 91
- Number of attempts: 5
Populate 3D bone names list - 652 entries
Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #48 / 168
- Number of attempts: 4
Remove line numbers - 778 entries
From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #62 / 205
- Number of attempts: 7
Find fix point of cos - 1468 entries
Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #230 / 431
- Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 575 entries
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #203 / 323
- Number of attempts: 2
Easier Align - 442 entries
Align the columns of a markdown table
- Best score: 51
- Best player score: 90
- Position: #29 / 99
- Number of attempts: 3
Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #123 / 576
- Number of attempts: 6
Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 424 entries
Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #79 / 122
- Number of attempts: 5
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 769 entries
Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html
- Best score: 50
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #30 / 184
- Number of attempts: 10
Substraction (bis) - 637 entries
Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #42 / 116
- Number of attempts: 8
Poorly indented Python comments - 1348 entries
Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #47 / 224
- Number of attempts: 12
Many duplicates - 1472 entries
Quick and easy
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #289 / 480
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1294 entries
Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #62 / 277
- Number of attempts: 5
Fix the shell script! - 2661 entries
Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #123 / 618
- Number of attempts: 5
Java to JavaScript - 299 entries
Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!
- Best score: 59
- Best player score: 69
- Position: #27 / 77
- Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 903 entries
Speak in tongues
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #117 / 274
- Number of attempts: 3
Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 306 entries
Who even sorted this?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 1197
- Position: #67 / 67
- Number of attempts: 1
Fill in the chess board - 979 entries
Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #53 / 186
- Number of attempts: 10
Transpose a python matrix - 901 entries
Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 65
- Position: #103 / 139
- Number of attempts: 2
Migrated to Postgres! - 348 entries
Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #37 / 134
- Number of attempts: 6
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1036 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #89 / 327
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4667 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #527 / 1284
- Number of attempts: 5
Contributed Challenges
Mirror image - 125 entries
Add the second eye
