VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Sort and Tag - 685 entries
The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.
- Best score: 36
- Best player score: 92
- Position: #81 / 145
- Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4591 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #490 / 1120
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: 25
- Position: #3450 / 7498
- Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #767 / 1559
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18889 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2328 / 3898
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10932 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1793 / 3091
- Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #875 / 1181
- Number of attempts: 2
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 855 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #323 / 442
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7997 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #989 / 1897
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5089 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #748 / 1658
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2410 / 4216
- Number of attempts: 2
Insert a Markdown link - 466 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #94 / 155
- Number of attempts: 3
Getters & Setters: Java - 212 entries
Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...
- Best score: 89
- Best player score: 122
- Position: #37 / 60
- Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1071 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #590 / 674
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 450 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #108 / 144
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #379 / 463
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #73 / 414
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 552 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #140 / 181
- Number of attempts: 2
Dumb to smart - 100 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #44 / 57
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #289 / 539
- Number of attempts: 3
Remember FizzBuzz? - 789 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 69
- Position: #155 / 205
- Number of attempts: 5
Get rid of html tags - 451 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #142 / 256
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1761 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #241 / 645
- Number of attempts: 2
Deleting folded text - 406 entries
The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #80 / 127
- Number of attempts: 8
Sort and add attributes - 1561 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #297 / 604
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1704 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: 20
- Position: #162 / 448
- Number of attempts: 3
Braces or Brackets? - 1147 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #286 / 353
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3968 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #712 / 848
- Number of attempts: 3
Flodder-challenge - 1458 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #227 / 372
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2953 / 3865
- Number of attempts: 2
