VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Copy three lines - 2516 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
Box it - 6584 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 7
Order and join - 811 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 3962 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 5
comments galore - 924 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 422 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
Array propagate - 264 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4229 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 16908 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 4
From argument to object - 1225 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
V to the i - 4427 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 213 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 30760 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
Every other line - 2564 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 6
Team names - 1655 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
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
comment and uncomment code inline - 947 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
Array transposition - 2047 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 10
Vice versa - 6999 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 10565 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 14691 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 6
Align commas - 955 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
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
Add semicolons - 8530 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 2932 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1360 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
Split line with dots - 2025 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 4
Todo list specification - 319 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
Simple text editing with Vim - 11104 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
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 762 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