VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: 28
- Position: #4146 / 7450
- Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #656 / 1551
- Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10891 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #31 / 3077
- Number of attempts: 4
Put the months in order - 979 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #79 / 165
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap assigned value - 664 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #117 / 258
- Number of attempts: 1
Word frequency alignment - 291 entries
You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #127 / 161
- Number of attempts: 1
fib.c cleanup - 71 entries
cleanup the file
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #56 / 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate words - 257 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #18 / 92
- Number of attempts: 2
Transposition - 99 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #16 / 32
- Number of attempts: 2
Prefixes and suffixes - 637 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #103 / 202
- Number of attempts: 2
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #115 / 193
- Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1130 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #388 / 448
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2564 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #274 / 759
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 663 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #198 / 264
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 389 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #183 / 215
- Number of attempts: 1
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 219 entries
According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #36 / 69
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1647 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #215 / 433
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3793 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #308 / 814
- Number of attempts: 5
