VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #268 / 1662
- Number of attempts: 5
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1015 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #235 / 390
- Number of attempts: 5
Create Leading Zeros - 269 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #74 / 86
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1649 / 3711
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3195 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: #771 / 1089
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13024 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3382 / 3983
- Number of attempts: 2
Draw the Go board - 171 entries
which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))
- Best score: 50
- Best player score: 82
- Position: #47 / 52
- 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: #104 / 235
- Number of attempts: 3
Groups magic - 163 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #50 / 96
- Number of attempts: 2
Readable Rubyhash - 274 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: 23
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #76 / 97
- Number of attempts: 2
NATO phonetic alphabet - 539 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #89 / 198
- Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 476 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #99 / 196
- Number of attempts: 3
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1628 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #276 / 454
- Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1145 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #231 / 454
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #683 / 785
- Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2195 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #651 / 678
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and double space - 502 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #103 / 200
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 2028 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #524 / 656
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1942 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #398 / 658
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 21
- Position: #441 / 529
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #358 / 539
- Number of attempts: 2
Compile C - 445 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #93 / 145
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 514 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #110 / 249
- Number of attempts: 3
Remember FizzBuzz? - 789 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 59
- Position: #114 / 205
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1764 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #310 / 647
- Number of attempts: 6
Sort and add attributes - 1568 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #371 / 607
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1710 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 / 451
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13509 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2142 / 3874
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #563 / 1871
- Number of attempts: 1
