VimGolfPlayed Challenges
swap number pairs - 2173 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #257 / 394
- Number of attempts: 9
HS Final exam vimgolf - 936 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: #208 / 245
- Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4602 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #623 / 1124
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: #3639 / 7519
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18909 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2734 / 3906
- Number of attempts: 2
vim = 22 / 7 - 493 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #125 / 137
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #373 / 594
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10958 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1252 / 3098
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 8003 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #118 / 1901
- Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #710 / 773
- Number of attempts: 1
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 584 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: #116 / 135
- Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1439 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #225 / 271
- Number of attempts: 4
Cartesian product - 277 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 104
- Position: #98 / 102
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 604 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #316 / 357
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #3025 / 4226
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #426 / 451
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 379 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: #83 / 109
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: #715 / 1094
- Number of attempts: 3
Recursive Cowsay - 78 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #15 / 22
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13058 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3713 / 3993
- Number of attempts: 2
Create a pandoc compatible table - 241 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: #56 / 58
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2641 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #528 / 780
- Number of attempts: 5
Exchanging Quotes - 878 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #229 / 234
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3069 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #714 / 790
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2237 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #683 / 687
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 760 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: #257 / 282
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #3541 / 3914
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Recursive Cowsay - 78 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
swap number pairs - 2173 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