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: #257 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 7
vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #55 / 131
- Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1377 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 6
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 680 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #175 / 387
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #769 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #355 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 14
- Position: #75 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #52 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 4
Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #97 / 225
- 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: #83 / 218
- Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 442 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #186 / 189
- Number of attempts: 2
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 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: #49 / 188
- Number of attempts: 8
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #346 / 441
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #417 / 738
- Number of attempts: 7
Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #113 / 225
- Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #502 / 768
- Number of attempts: 6
Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #61 / 403
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #181 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 8
Case preserving word replacement - 453 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 / 179
- Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1001 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 / 643
- Number of attempts: 11
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #266 / 454
- Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #138 / 512
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 579 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 61
- Position: #200 / 229
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 709 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: #180 / 249
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #103 / 558
- Number of attempts: 7
Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #145 / 529
- Number of attempts: 6
Braces or Brackets? - 885 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: #99 / 289
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 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 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 18
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #1047 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 4
