VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 565 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #48 / 348
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4637 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #113 / 1536
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 894 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #203 / 348
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 268 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #4 / 138
- Number of attempts: 2
Case preserving word replacement - 434 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #67 / 174
- Number of attempts: 6
The holy-grail may help - 311 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #74 / 192
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 764 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #93 / 209
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #184 / 606
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 407 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #53 / 155
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #125 / 224
- Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 397 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #51 / 162
- Number of attempts: 4
Almost encrypted - 179 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #60 / 135
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1341 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #47 / 517
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1171 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #62 / 479
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 21
- Position: #141 / 343
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 37
- Position: #36 / 249
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2928 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #131 / 657
- Number of attempts: 7
Flodder-challenge - 870 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #30 / 267
- 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: 14
- Position: #798 / 3401
- Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5979 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #387 / 1476
- Number of attempts: 1