VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5622 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 13
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2688 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 12
Numbering a List - 1756 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 4
Make Fancy Header - 928 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 2657 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 8
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 297 entries
"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 4537 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5
Change the content of a string - 1260 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4383 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1110 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 3
Flodder-challenge - 818 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 8
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1098 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: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1143 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 10892 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 8
Shebangs for all - 1643 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: 11
- Number of attempts: 7
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1034 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: 20
- Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 852 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 1872 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 15
Reverse Simple Deletion - 730 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1257 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 7
Make it more readable - 1785 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 15
