VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33086 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: 24
- Position: #2894 / 7297
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4490 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1031 / 1246
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18472 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1688 / 3807
- Number of attempts: 4
Separate the lines - 161 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #85 / 86
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4647 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1223 / 1861
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1441 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: 22
- Position: #371 / 441
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2850 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #388 / 690
- Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2819 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #403 / 629
- Number of attempts: 3
comment and uncomment code inline - 1033 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #259 / 303
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11284 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2449 / 4140
- Number of attempts: 3
Todo list specification - 368 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #101 / 169
- Number of attempts: 2
Text to HTML Table - 157 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 62
- Position: #36 / 46
- Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 362 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #125 / 136
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 838 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: 24
- Position: #182 / 206
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5484 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #666 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple addition - 301 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #83 / 112
- Number of attempts: 1
Hidden Message - 74 entries
Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 86
- Position: #26 / 28
- Number of attempts: 3
Adam's challenge - 922 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: 22
- Position: #169 / 260
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7615 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1267 / 2064
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 913 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #176 / 248
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 982 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #373 / 414
- Number of attempts: 2
Add Go XML to structure tags - 151 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #51 / 65
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4207 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #955 / 1174
- Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #383 / 436
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15830 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2162 / 4130
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3135 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #816 / 1118
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10562 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2183 / 3646
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12786 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2356 / 3928
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4980 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1187 / 1717
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 252 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #82 / 95
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11822 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1553 / 3461
- Number of attempts: 4
