VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #4171 / 7513
- Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #659 / 1562
- Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10956 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #31 / 3098
- Number of attempts: 4
Put the months in order - 1001 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: #80 / 168
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap assigned value - 694 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #119 / 263
- Number of attempts: 1
Word frequency alignment - 310 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: #132 / 166
- Number of attempts: 1
fib.c cleanup - 80 entries
cleanup the file
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #59 / 59
- Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate words - 279 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #20 / 96
- Number of attempts: 2
Transposition - 126 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #18 / 34
- Number of attempts: 2
Prefixes and suffixes - 668 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #106 / 207
- Number of attempts: 2
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 456 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: #120 / 199
- Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1162 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #396 / 459
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #281 / 778
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 685 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #203 / 270
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 405 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #187 / 221
- Number of attempts: 1
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 241 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: #39 / 74
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1745 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: #224 / 457
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4044 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #329 / 862
- Number of attempts: 5
