Played 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: #1475 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #458 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1822 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #144 / 569
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1313 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #27 / 840
- Number of attempts: 4
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 302 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #10 / 68
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap the operands under comparison - 270 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #34 / 98
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1153 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #143 / 516
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #142 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #597 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3668 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #346 / 826
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7827 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #233 / 1864
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #153 / 376
- Number of attempts: 1
html paragraph to table - 590 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #51 / 123
- Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1474 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #236 / 450
- Number of attempts: 1
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #73 / 174
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #21 / 700
- Number of attempts: 5
Copy three lines - 2840 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #233 / 635
- Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #211 / 744
- Number of attempts: 1
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 538 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #55 / 127
- Number of attempts: 3
Number Sort - 305 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #74 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #103 / 314
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2718 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #180 / 581
- Number of attempts: 2
Return the cow - 71 entries
This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 96
- Position: #19 / 28
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 856 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #132 / 209
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #692 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 4
Adam's challenge - 957 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #69 / 266
- Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #118 / 287
- Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1372 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #90 / 261
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #800 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2004 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #248 / 496
- Number of attempts: 1
Greek Letters - 61 entries
Starting with a list of Greek letters, create a cross-reference table showing all of the Greek alpha-beta. You'll likely need to use digraphs (:help digraphs). Note that while most digraphs can be entered with either character first, lowercase sigma has two digraphs -- s* AND *s! Good luck!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 91
- Position: #15 / 23
- Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #32 / 223
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #386 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #782 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 6
Split the words - 356 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #18 / 108
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1306 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #385 / 692
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 10
- Position: #61 / 511
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #59 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12854 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1238 / 3945
- Number of attempts: 3
Array Transposition - 177 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #24 / 53
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2946 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #108 / 767
- Number of attempts: 4
Remember FizzBuzz? - 654 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #50 / 177
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1661 / 3580
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #461 / 1614
- Number of attempts: 1
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