VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 860 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #190 / 446
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1200 / 1667
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 581 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #71 / 353
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2489 / 4218
- Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1663 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #203 / 522
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #728 / 1091
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13032 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1253 / 3986
- Number of attempts: 2
Assign list - 202 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #43 / 63
- Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 1039 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #208 / 306
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 441 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #80 / 235
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 531 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #153 / 175
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 682 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #134 / 366
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #351 / 456
- Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1151 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #48 / 456
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2634 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #536 / 776
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #605 / 786
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1068 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #323 / 424
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #220 / 279
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2028 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #384 / 656
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 883 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #131 / 206
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1288 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #227 / 416
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 2090 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #321 / 529
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #156 / 539
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 596 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #88 / 252
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1080 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #239 / 352
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1766 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #373 / 648
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1572 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #167 / 610
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1722 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #360 / 453
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1169 / 3879
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7614 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #1216 / 1876
- Number of attempts: 1
