VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple text editing with Vim - 11054 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: 4
-a-b-c- - 2886 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
Make it more readable - 1812 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 2944 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: 6
120 Degrees - 389 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5136 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort the cardinal numbers - 226 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap assigned value - 518 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1166 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 14483 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 6
Switch function arguments - 1888 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 4
Rail fence transposition cipher - 63 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: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and count - 382 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1669 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: 6
Groups magic - 137 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 918 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 624 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: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12073 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 904 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3242 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 9
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2728 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4375 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10144 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
Mirror Symmetry - 739 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Hole-in-one - 963 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: 16
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 10444 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse Simple Deletion - 736 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1479 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 9
Letter case trickery - 1481 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: 13
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 830 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1764 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 4663 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 924 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1381 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 6
Shuffled numbers - 199 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 3930 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 22
- Number of attempts: 2