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 - 4596 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #623 / 1122
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33972 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: #3634 / 7505
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18894 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2732 / 3901
- Number of attempts: 2
vim = 22 / 7 - 491 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #124 / 136
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2546 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #372 / 592
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10950 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1251 / 3095
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7998 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #118 / 1898
- Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2401 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #705 / 768
- Number of attempts: 1
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 557 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: #114 / 133
- Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1436 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #224 / 270
- Number of attempts: 4
Cartesian product - 267 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 104
- Position: #97 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 583 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #313 / 354
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #3021 / 4221
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 898 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #421 / 446
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 361 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: #80 / 106
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #712 / 1091
- Number of attempts: 3
Recursive Cowsay - 71 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #15 / 20
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13033 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3707 / 3987
- Number of attempts: 2
Create a pandoc compatible table - 237 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: #55 / 57
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2634 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #526 / 776
- Number of attempts: 5
Exchanging Quotes - 877 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #229 / 233
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #711 / 787
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2204 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #677 / 681
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 742 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: #255 / 280
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13564 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #3520 / 3887
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Recursive Cowsay - 71 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