VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 155 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1375 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 2
Un"finnish"ed Work - 104 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 2
Hello ${world} - 269 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2144 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 7
Create a table - 264 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 4
Todo list specification - 328 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 37
- Number of attempts: 1
Add Go XML to structure tags - 131 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 784 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 6
Text to HTML Table - 156 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 52
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple addition - 262 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1232 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 5
Stairstep digits - 227 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 3
comment and uncomment code inline - 950 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 5
Adam's challenge - 889 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 5
Nesting SASS - 241 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 4
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 765 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 813 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2712 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 5
C Reformatting - 675 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2664 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 6
Split line with dots - 2049 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 957 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 4
From A to B - 533 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 17666 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 7
Scrambled numbers - 764 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values - 4313 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5
comments galore - 930 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7215 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32003 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
- Number of attempts: 7
Make HTML List - 924 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 36
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4059 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1482 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 10891 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15244 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5320 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 10
That hyphen - 2411 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3008 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4523 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 1884 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: 11
- Number of attempts: 6
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1056 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 9
Extract argument from function - 2146 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10391 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3282 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 15
quotes inside quotes - 2973 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: 14
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12439 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 5
Saving the hashes(#) - 1876 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2264 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 4
Create a pandoc compatible table - 158 entries
In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 42
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 1899 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
Calculate the table totals - 107 entries
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 51
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 631 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove semicolons after expressions - 499 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 899 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Format the output - 95 entries
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 46
- Number of attempts: 2
Exchanging Quotes - 779 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 35
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and double space - 424 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 515 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 2
un-C-escape string - 53 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2706 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 6
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 768 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 9
constructor - 165 entries
coding a constructor for a simple class
- Best score: 59
- Best player score: 98
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4806 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5
Replacing some words - 405 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 1818 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 6
remove dupes from array - 1260 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: 8
Sort entries based on date - 315 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 8
Alphabetize the directory - 261 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 6
Multiplication table. - 183 entries
Create a multiplication table.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 49
- Number of attempts: 3
Line Zipper - 402 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 3
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 129 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 3
Complete the hex array data - 188 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 3
Overall Vimgolf Rank - 137 entries
Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4479 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2733 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 11231 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: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5743 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 35
- Number of attempts: 13