VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33948 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: 35
- Position: #6635 / 7496
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18862 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #3718 / 3896
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 855 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #403 / 442
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7991 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #1588 / 1896
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5074 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #1569 / 1653
- Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1014 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: 49
- Position: #343 / 389
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16156 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #3680 / 4213
- Number of attempts: 2
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 230 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #52 / 99
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2084 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: 25
- Position: #487 / 527
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and count - 486 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #174 / 179
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 643 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #219 / 238
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #383 / 414
- 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: 10
- Position: #219 / 252
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 637 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #218 / 243
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1760 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #543 / 644
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1560 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #574 / 603
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1700 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: 30
- Position: #407 / 446
- Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1458 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #346 / 372
- Number of attempts: 1
