VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: 28
- Position: #4272 / 7517
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4885 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #998 / 1915
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1231 / 1675
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2649 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #419 / 712
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11620 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1570 / 4258
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #1002 / 1281
- Number of attempts: 1
Pretty multi-line bash - 256 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #75 / 80
- Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 712 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 72
- Position: #147 / 167
- Number of attempts: 3
Separating firstname & lastname - 183 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #59 / 63
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #412 / 458
- Number of attempts: 3
ASCII box - 379 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #110 / 112
- Number of attempts: 4
Condensed Cases - 829 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #199 / 255
- Number of attempts: 3
Happy TvvO - 440 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #64 / 212
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2460 / 4225
- Number of attempts: 3
learn vim in short time - 248 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #66 / 168
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1053 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #204 / 362
- Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #274 / 310
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2070 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #568 / 596
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #341 / 451
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3568 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #483 / 711
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: 17
- Position: #868 / 1094
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13054 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3730 / 3991
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #374 / 457
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #647 / 778
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #521 / 789
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2229 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #584 / 684
- Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5128 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1392 / 1764
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 2039 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #403 / 658
- Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1969 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #548 / 661
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2103 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: 24
- Position: #484 / 533
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #376 / 543
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #3167 / 3907
- Number of attempts: 1
