VimGolfPlayed Challenges
I forgot quotes - 15117 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 6
Order and join - 813 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2613 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 6
From argument to object - 1230 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: 17
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4287 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5
Todo list specification - 327 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 37
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2043 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 4
Satisfy the go linter - 1056 entries
You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7079 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple, Practical, and Common - 31659 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
- Number of attempts: 6
multiple cursor alternative - 1375 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4505 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11188 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 5
Learn some german verbs - 437 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 4
Adam's challenge - 889 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: 18
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 10814 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2680 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 6
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 216 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 784 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: 16
- Number of attempts: 5
Array propagate - 268 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1699 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 930 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4029 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7146 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 17456 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 1977 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 9283 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3004 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2120 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 10
comment and uncomment code inline - 950 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: 9
- Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 765 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 4787 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 4
Align commas - 957 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5