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: 22
- Position: #1402 / 7489
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10923 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #308 / 3087
- Number of attempts: 5
Order and join - 992 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #168 / 261
- Number of attempts: 2
VimGolfNight - 575 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #145 / 352
- Number of attempts: 2
Going underground.... - 357 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #95 / 129
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1699 / 3703
- Number of attempts: 3
Counting in binary - 526 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #52 / 117
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: 16
- Position: #568 / 1086
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13005 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2053 / 3979
- Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #238 / 450
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2610 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #226 / 771
- Number of attempts: 4
Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #208 / 421
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5101 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1343 / 1756
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 2015 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #459 / 654
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1277 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: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #275 / 413
- 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: 12
- Position: #136 / 525
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1070 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #359 / 673
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2143 / 3846
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7507 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #467 / 1847
- Number of attempts: 3
