VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 750 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #102 / 405
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1146 / 1615
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #151 / 379
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2987 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #560 / 774
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5061 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1280 / 1743
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1982 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #543 / 645
- Number of attempts: 4
Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #143 / 180
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 878 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #114 / 204
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1929 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #512 / 651
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1228 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #383 / 403
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 875 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #198 / 218
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1961 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #457 / 506
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1037 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: #256 / 657
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 624 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #192 / 232
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #222 / 457
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #222 / 405
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 531 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #79 / 175
- Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #332 / 523
- Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1045 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #171 / 342
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat some Python - 604 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #107 / 235
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 750 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #150 / 261
- Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 383 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #66 / 224
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1541 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #257 / 577
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #388 / 551
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1467 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #277 / 403
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3568 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #464 / 770
- Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1219 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #142 / 327
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2327 / 3653
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6825 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #855 / 1673
- Number of attempts: 5
