VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #6630 / 7489
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18840 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #3716 / 3893
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 852 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #402 / 441
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7987 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #1587 / 1895
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #1559 / 1643
- Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1011 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: #341 / 387
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #3676 / 4208
- 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 - 2062 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: #485 / 525
- 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 - 642 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: #218 / 237
- 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 - 594 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: #218 / 251
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 635 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #217 / 242
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1750 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #541 / 639
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #572 / 601
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1697 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: #406 / 445
- Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1443 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #343 / 369
- Number of attempts: 1
