VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 814 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #190 / 426
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1175 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 572 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #71 / 351
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2476 / 4194
- Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1633 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: #200 / 519
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3178 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: #725 / 1084
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12969 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1245 / 3970
- Number of attempts: 2
Assign list - 192 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #41 / 61
- Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 1024 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: #207 / 305
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 427 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #80 / 233
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #152 / 174
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 678 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #134 / 363
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1616 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: #348 / 447
- Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1126 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #48 / 447
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2564 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #525 / 759
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #599 / 779
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #319 / 419
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 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: #216 / 275
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2009 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #380 / 652
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 881 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #130 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1256 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: #225 / 408
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 2039 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: #317 / 521
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #156 / 534
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 590 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 / 249
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #238 / 348
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1643 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #350 / 607
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1492 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #167 / 579
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1636 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: #347 / 432
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13068 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1145 / 3757
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7212 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #1166 / 1772
- Number of attempts: 1
