VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: 26
- Position: #3446 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 3
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 705 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #157 / 398
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2337 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #324 / 750
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #825 / 1604
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #255 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #142 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4267 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #178 / 1188
- Number of attempts: 8
Mute the second method of this script - 449 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #184 / 238
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1549 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 6
Count both ways - 1006 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #74 / 352
- Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: 15
- Position: #447 / 1073
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1511 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 4
Word frequency alignment - 278 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: #52 / 159
- Number of attempts: 3
Execute immediate SQL - 87 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
- Best score: 58
- Best player score: 72
- Position: #15 / 31
- Number of attempts: 3
Prefixes and suffixes - 599 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #52 / 195
- Number of attempts: 4
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #19 / 443
- Number of attempts: 8
Saving the hashes(#) - 2008 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: 20
- Position: #4 / 476
- Number of attempts: 7
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #584 / 653
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #402 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 4
Line Zipper - 454 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #174 / 212
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and count - 459 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #88 / 174
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #261 / 455
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #300 / 404
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1502 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #92 / 567
- Number of attempts: 6
Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #134 / 542
- Number of attempts: 4
Add fold markers to a .c file - 571 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #129 / 175
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1436 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #65 / 397
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2401 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 3
