VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33533 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: #6562 / 7396
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18705 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #3686 / 3855
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 750 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #367 / 405
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7897 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #1567 / 1872
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #1531 / 1615
- Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 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: #333 / 379
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15954 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #3641 / 4170
- Number of attempts: 2
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 222 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #51 / 97
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1961 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: #470 / 506
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and count - 470 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: #170 / 175
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 624 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: #213 / 232
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #375 / 405
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 558 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: #210 / 242
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 604 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #210 / 235
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1541 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #491 / 577
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #525 / 551
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1467 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #373 / 403
- Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1219 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #305 / 327
- Number of attempts: 1
