VimGolfPlayed Challenges
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: #190 / 387
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1138 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 536 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #71 / 343
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2457 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1594 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: #197 / 511
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 17
- Position: #720 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1232 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 2
Assign list - 169 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #39 / 59
- Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 1012 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: #205 / 302
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #80 / 225
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 516 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #151 / 171
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 650 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #134 / 356
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 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: #342 / 439
- Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #48 / 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: 27
- Position: #510 / 738
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #593 / 768
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #310 / 403
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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: #211 / 270
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #373 / 640
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 842 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #128 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: #220 / 401
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1912 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: #305 / 500
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #156 / 512
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 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: #86 / 232
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #231 / 338
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #317 / 558
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #167 / 529
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 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: 25
- Position: #314 / 384
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #1101 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #1096 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 1
