VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 4637 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #20 / 1536
- Number of attempts: 4
Happy New Year! - 132 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #48 / 55
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat long lines - 323 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #36 / 127
- Number of attempts: 4
Generate English Alphabets - 433 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #63 / 193
- Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 912 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #23 / 606
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 587 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #117 / 224
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse Simple Deletion - 754 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #92 / 427
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 557 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #108 / 367
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 493 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #45 / 151
- Number of attempts: 5
Hatsuyume - 397 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #153 / 162
- Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 83 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #39 / 50
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1189 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #49 / 484
- Number of attempts: 4
Context insensitive completion 0 - 467 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #134 / 220
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove Accent off the Letter - 102 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 76
- Position: #38 / 47
- Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 179 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #6 / 135
- Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 959 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #8 / 324
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat some Python - 554 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #172 / 221
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse characters in a line - 634 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #76 / 234
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1120 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #3 / 343
- Number of attempts: 4
Braces or Brackets? - 682 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #126 / 249
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11588 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #2998 / 3401
- Number of attempts: 1