VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 22
- Position: #1606 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #774 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 9
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #727 / 840
- Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #41 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #80 / 203
- Number of attempts: 5
Put the months in order - 932 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #86 / 158
- Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 536 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #24 / 343
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 345 entries
"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #63 / 105
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1183 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 4
Draw the Go board - 140 entries
which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))
- Best score: 50
- Best player score: 76
- Position: #38 / 48
- Number of attempts: 2
Word frequency alignment - 274 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: 5
- Position: #20 / 157
- Number of attempts: 2
Execute immediate SQL - 85 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
- Best score: 60
- Best player score: 82
- Position: #26 / 30
- Number of attempts: 2
abcd > a b c d - 280 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #35 / 218
- Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #408 / 473
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #1199 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 1
