VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #257 / 7489
- Number of attempts: 7
vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #57 / 135
- Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10923 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1390 / 3087
- Number of attempts: 6
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 852 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #175 / 441
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #805 / 1643
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #355 / 3703
- Number of attempts: 6
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: 14
- Position: #75 / 1086
- Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 13005 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #64 / 3979
- Number of attempts: 4
Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #97 / 234
- Number of attempts: 2
abcd > a b c d - 299 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #83 / 228
- Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 476 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #193 / 196
- Number of attempts: 2
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 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: 10
- Position: #51 / 193
- Number of attempts: 8
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #353 / 450
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2615 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #434 / 772
- Number of attempts: 7
Exchanging Quotes - 864 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #116 / 232
- Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #511 / 783
- Number of attempts: 6
Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #61 / 421
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5101 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #181 / 1756
- Number of attempts: 8
Case preserving word replacement - 463 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #54 / 182
- Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1070 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: #313 / 673
- Number of attempts: 11
Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #270 / 463
- Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #138 / 538
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 635 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 61
- Position: #213 / 242
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 806 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #195 / 271
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1750 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #103 / 639
- Number of attempts: 7
Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #145 / 601
- Number of attempts: 6
Braces or Brackets? - 1140 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #117 / 349
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #274 / 3846
- Number of attempts: 18
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7513 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #1149 / 1849
- Number of attempts: 4
