VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5590 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 5
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1035 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 1
Two become one - 691 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4501 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 10821 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: 4
Extract argument from function - 2090 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 820 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 1866 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4346 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9894 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap text in quotes - 306 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 9947 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 11674 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 7
Mess in revision history - 1015 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1451 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: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
Shuffle puzzle - 293 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 28193 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: 23
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 2885 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: 15
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2620 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 6
Split line with dots - 1946 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 15167 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3158 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 10
Saving the hashes(#) - 1826 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 6
Gray area - 662 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 4
Vertical Limit - 2189 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 5
