VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32910 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: #28 / 7271
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #898 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2215 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #100 / 728
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2498 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #14 / 683
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11136 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1612 / 4112
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5430 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #512 / 1227
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7522 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #830 / 2044
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 970 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #64 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #117 / 262
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4178 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #661 / 1166
- Number of attempts: 2
Rail fence transposition cipher - 70 entries
Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #17 / 24
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 745 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #77 / 267
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 306 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #50 / 145
- Number of attempts: 1
Interleave lines - 134 entries
This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #8 / 55
- Number of attempts: 4
Logging with key - 292 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #29 / 84
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1590 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #209 / 433
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 958 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #81 / 279
- Number of attempts: 1
Line 'em up! - 367 entries
It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #78 / 105
- Number of attempts: 1
ASCII box - 317 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #63 / 102
- Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 439 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #66 / 233
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 752 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: 14
- Position: #100 / 230
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15740 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1413 / 4115
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries
Implementing the methods of a Java Interface
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #9 / 25
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #749 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 959 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #94 / 341
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 702 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #35 / 260
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1951 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: 14
- Position: #302 / 572
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #490 / 3637
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #436 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 1982 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #249 / 627
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11637 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1295 / 3413
- Number of attempts: 1