VimGolfPlayed Challenges
swap number pairs - 2064 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #245 / 375
- Number of attempts: 9
HS Final exam vimgolf - 894 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: #199 / 235
- Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4451 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #601 / 1090
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33552 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: #3597 / 7401
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18705 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2708 / 3855
- Number of attempts: 2
vim = 22 / 7 - 472 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #122 / 134
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2480 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #361 / 575
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10841 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1238 / 3058
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7897 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #118 / 1872
- Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2354 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #690 / 751
- Number of attempts: 1
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 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: #110 / 129
- Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1420 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #222 / 267
- Number of attempts: 4
Cartesian product - 248 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 104
- Position: #91 / 94
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 555 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #305 / 345
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15956 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2989 / 4171
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #414 / 437
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 346 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: #79 / 104
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: #706 / 1075
- Number of attempts: 3
Recursive Cowsay - 64 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #14 / 19
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12918 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3680 / 3957
- Number of attempts: 2
Create a pandoc compatible table - 214 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: #54 / 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2522 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #509 / 751
- Number of attempts: 5
Exchanging Quotes - 851 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #224 / 228
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2987 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #701 / 774
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2117 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #653 / 657
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 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: #248 / 273
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12632 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #3327 / 3655
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Recursive Cowsay - 64 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
swap number pairs - 2064 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