VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32953 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
- Position: #1402 / 7275
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10545 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #309 / 2989
- Number of attempts: 5
Order and join - 881 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #153 / 242
- Number of attempts: 2
VimGolfNight - 497 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #145 / 328
- Number of attempts: 2
Going underground.... - 315 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #89 / 122
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1660 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 3
Counting in binary - 412 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #48 / 108
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3030 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #543 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2013 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1015 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #221 / 420
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2369 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #210 / 717
- Number of attempts: 4
Append semicolon after expressions - 953 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #194 / 387
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4937 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1310 / 1707
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 1897 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #438 / 624
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1172 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: 15
- Position: #260 / 386
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1777 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #122 / 468
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 934 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: #359 / 617
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11656 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1906 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #420 / 1486
- Number of attempts: 3