VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32972 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: 24
- Position: #2827 / 7278
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #552 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18395 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1064 / 3793
- Number of attempts: 12
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1157 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2103 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #534 / 623
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2811 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #357 / 626
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2218 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #164 / 729
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4681 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #451 / 1550
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2507 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #451 / 684
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11141 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2186 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap text in quotes - 340 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #75 / 115
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7541 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #879 / 2049
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 970 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #186 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 772 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #136 / 179
- Number of attempts: 1
A grid of punctuation - 117 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #31 / 55
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 276 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #69 / 131
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #102 / 262
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4184 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #226 / 1167
- Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 745 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #121 / 267
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 958 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #100 / 279
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15749 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2485 / 4117
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3122 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #617 / 1113
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 962 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #245 / 342
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1951 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #345 / 572
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2096 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3030 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: #864 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2300 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2377 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #569 / 719
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2826 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #521 / 739
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 1985 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #393 / 628
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4945 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #883 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11662 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1481 / 3419
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6035 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #519 / 1487
- Number of attempts: 1