VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple text editing with Vim - 11150 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 211 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 4
Split the words - 345 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 8
NATO phonetic alphabet - 417 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 6
Permutations N=4 - 60 entries
Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 35
- Number of attempts: 5
Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 185 entries
1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 38
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 929 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 8
Reverse and count - 383 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: 26
- Number of attempts: 5
constructor - 165 entries
coding a constructor for a simple class
- Best score: 59
- Best player score: 108
- Number of attempts: 2
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 160 entries
Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1166 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 3
CSV to JSON - 143 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
- Best score: 56
- Best player score: 210
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove semicolons after expressions - 499 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Number of attempts: 4
Create a pandoc compatible table - 158 entries
In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 52
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 1888 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 6
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1113 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 6
Generate English Alphabets - 425 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12282 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 4