VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32953 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: 28
- Position: #4151 / 7275
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #970 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1133 / 1549
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2500 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #404 / 683
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11141 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1528 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5436 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #958 / 1228
- Number of attempts: 1
Pretty multi-line bash - 216 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #69 / 74
- Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 686 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 72
- Position: #141 / 159
- Number of attempts: 3
Separating firstname & lastname - 113 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #49 / 53
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #394 / 434
- Number of attempts: 3
ASCII box - 317 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #100 / 102
- Number of attempts: 4
Condensed Cases - 758 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: 17
- Position: #183 / 231
- Number of attempts: 3
Happy TvvO - 392 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #64 / 195
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15748 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2386 / 4116
- Number of attempts: 3
learn vim in short time - 219 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #66 / 150
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 962 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #191 / 342
- Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #262 / 292
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 18
- Position: #544 / 572
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 845 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #330 / 422
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3402 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #466 / 685
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
- Position: #836 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3663 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1510 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #355 / 424
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2369 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #601 / 717
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2800 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #492 / 735
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 1982 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #540 / 627
- Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 4944 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1353 / 1708
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 1897 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #383 / 624
- Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1832 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #520 / 627
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1777 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: 24
- Position: #434 / 468
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1215 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #347 / 491
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 23
- Position: #2806 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 1