VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Word Blender - 129 entries
The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #33 / 54
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #248 / 1549
- Number of attempts: 5
Create Leading Zeros - 205 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #46 / 77
- Number of attempts: 6
VimGolfNight - 497 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #80 / 328
- Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3402 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #187 / 685
- Number of attempts: 10
Letter case trickery - 1553 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #54 / 500
- Number of attempts: 10
quotes inside quotes - 3030 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: 15
- Position: #370 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #85 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 5
Hole-in-one - 978 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #161 / 298
- Number of attempts: 13
Saving the hashes(#) - 1966 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: 30
- Position: #366 / 467
- Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1015 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #49 / 420
- Number of attempts: 4
Vertical Limit - 2369 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #12 / 717
- Number of attempts: 12
replacing each line of a block selection - 2800 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #47 / 735
- Number of attempts: 14
Switch function arguments - 1982 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #72 / 627
- Number of attempts: 12
switch variable - 4944 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #198 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 12
Numbering a List - 1831 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #371 / 626
- Number of attempts: 6
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3009 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #643 / 667
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11657 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1076 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #661 / 1486
- Number of attempts: 2