VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32691 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
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4383 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18197 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 6
Separate the lines - 150 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4595 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3413 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3271 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7619 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1410 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 4
From argument to object - 1246 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
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2775 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4524 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11074 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 2
Un"finnish"ed Work - 104 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
Todo list specification - 345 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
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 860 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 41
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 15
- Number of attempts: 6
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 155 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- 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: 18
- Number of attempts: 4
Create a table - 285 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 322 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 5
ninja substitution - 1224 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7390 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 6
Paragraph sort - 394 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2234 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 10
Collect List - 4146 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 933 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15638 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12676 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 1
Resort and deup a CSV list - 128 entries
I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.
- Best score: 44
- Best player score: 44
- Number of attempts: 8
replacing each line of a block selection - 2740 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 8
Switch function arguments - 1919 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 3
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 4863 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 11334 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