VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 852 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #102 / 441
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1168 / 1643
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1011 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: #155 / 387
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #565 / 783
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5101 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1290 / 1756
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2015 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #551 / 654
- Number of attempts: 4
Case preserving word replacement - 463 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: #144 / 182
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 883 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #115 / 206
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1941 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #517 / 657
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1277 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: #393 / 413
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 897 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #202 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2062 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: #471 / 525
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1070 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 / 673
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 642 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: #197 / 237
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #225 / 463
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #230 / 414
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 552 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #81 / 181
- Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #341 / 538
- Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1079 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #175 / 351
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat some Python - 635 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #112 / 242
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 806 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: #157 / 271
- Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 441 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #77 / 252
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1750 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #288 / 639
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #423 / 601
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1697 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #302 / 445
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3949 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #508 / 841
- Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1443 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #159 / 369
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2445 / 3846
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7513 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #911 / 1849
- Number of attempts: 5
