Played Challenges
Split the words - 353 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
- Position: #14 / 106
- Number of attempts: 8
Permutations N=4 - 60 entries
Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #11 / 18
- Number of attempts: 5
Letter case trickery - 1547 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
- Position: #485 / 498
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #157 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 4
NATO phonetic alphabet - 476 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #7 / 181
- Number of attempts: 6
Create a pandoc compatible table - 176 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
- Position: #38 / 50
- Number of attempts: 3
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
- Position: #31 / 74
- Number of attempts: 2
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 202 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
- Position: #17 / 64
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 1982 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #321 / 627
- Number of attempts: 6
constructor - 165 entries
coding a constructor for a simple class
- Best score: 59
- Best player score: 108
- Position: #38 / 56
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 541 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #22 / 235
- Number of attempts: 4
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 251 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #24 / 94
- Number of attempts: 4
Generate English Alphabets - 438 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #34 / 194
- Number of attempts: 5
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1157 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
- Position: #189 / 382
- Number of attempts: 6
CSV to JSON - 144 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
- Best score: 56
- Best player score: 210
- Position: #57 / 60
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse and count - 412 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
- Position: #80 / 158
- Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1203 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #50 / 488
- Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 963 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #9 / 326
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 11637 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1098 / 3413
- Number of attempts: 2