VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Rural Post - 3717 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #310 / 918
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32746 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: #967 / 7235
- Number of attempts: 13
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5776 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #759 / 1421
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18240 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1658 / 3760
- Number of attempts: 3
Separate the lines - 152 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #66 / 82
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10429 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1561 / 2954
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7622 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #759 / 1819
- Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1250 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
- Position: #33 / 412
- Number of attempts: 5
comment and uncomment code inline - 971 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: 10
- Position: #157 / 290
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11074 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2419 / 4088
- Number of attempts: 2
Todo list specification - 350 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
- Position: #12 / 161
- Number of attempts: 5
Text to HTML Table - 156 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #12 / 45
- Number of attempts: 3
Missing Library and a Typo - 815 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: 18
- Position: #114 / 200
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple addition - 288 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #15 / 105
- Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 903 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: 26
- Position: #223 / 251
- Number of attempts: 1
Add Go XML to structure tags - 143 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #37 / 60
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15639 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2135 / 4095
- Number of attempts: 2