VimGolfPlayed Challenges
swap number pairs - 2023 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #244 / 373
- Number of attempts: 9
HS Final exam vimgolf - 892 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: #198 / 234
- Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4427 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #599 / 1086
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #3590 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2705 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 2
vim = 22 / 7 - 451 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #121 / 133
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #361 / 573
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10831 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1238 / 3055
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7849 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #118 / 1870
- Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2337 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #689 / 750
- Number of attempts: 1
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 539 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 / 128
- Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1399 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #221 / 265
- Number of attempts: 4
Cartesian product - 222 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 104
- Position: #90 / 93
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 538 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #304 / 344
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2987 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 874 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #413 / 436
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 331 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: #78 / 103
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: #705 / 1073
- Number of attempts: 3
Recursive Cowsay - 59 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #14 / 18
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3673 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 2
Create a pandoc compatible table - 185 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: #53 / 55
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #506 / 748
- Number of attempts: 5
Exchanging Quotes - 824 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #223 / 227
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #699 / 772
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #649 / 653
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 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: #247 / 272
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #3301 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Recursive Cowsay - 59 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
swap number pairs - 2023 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