VimGolfPlayed Challenges
swap number pairs - 1925 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #230 / 354
- Number of attempts: 9
HS Final exam vimgolf - 836 entries
Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #187 / 221
- Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4285 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #576 / 1051
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: 26
- Position: #3564 / 7330
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18559 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2689 / 3830
- Number of attempts: 2
vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #119 / 131
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2443 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #355 / 566
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10744 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1231 / 3030
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7782 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #118 / 1853
- Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2283 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #679 / 739
- Number of attempts: 1
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 530 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #107 / 125
- Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1350 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #214 / 258
- Number of attempts: 4
Cartesian product - 218 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 104
- Position: #89 / 92
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 524 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #300 / 339
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2972 / 4146
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 857 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #406 / 429
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #76 / 101
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3102 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: 17
- Position: #698 / 1065
- Number of attempts: 3
Recursive Cowsay - 58 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #13 / 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12821 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3662 / 3938
- Number of attempts: 2
Create a pandoc compatible table - 177 entries
In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 81
- Position: #49 / 51
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2399 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #491 / 727
- Number of attempts: 5
Exchanging Quotes - 801 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #218 / 221
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2901 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #688 / 759
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2019 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #634 / 637
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 675 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #244 / 266
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #3200 / 3502
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Recursive Cowsay - 58 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
swap number pairs - 1925 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
Jan Wedekind
Twitter: @wedesoft
Computer science PhD dabbling with programming languages, machine vision, and free software