Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32910 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: 24
- Position: #2910 / 7271
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #216 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18378 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #396 / 3788
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1268 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1447 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: 21
- Position: #207 / 369
- Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1262 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
- Position: #83 / 417
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2829 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #5 / 686
- Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2801 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #452 / 625
- Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2215 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #199 / 728
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4654 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #511 / 1542
- Number of attempts: 4
comment and uncomment code inline - 995 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
- Position: #88 / 296
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11140 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1065 / 4113
- Number of attempts: 3
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 235 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #24 / 127
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5436 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #100 / 1228
- Number of attempts: 11
Adam's challenge - 916 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
- Position: #58 / 257
- Number of attempts: 7
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 795 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
- Position: #107 / 271
- Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 7522 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #352 / 2044
- Number of attempts: 8
Order and join - 881 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #49 / 242
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4178 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #354 / 1166
- Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #83 / 434
- Number of attempts: 8
increment by column in XML - 144 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #3 / 52
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15740 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #726 / 4115
- Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #225 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1241 / 3637
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #853 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4917 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #500 / 1701
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11637 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #517 / 3413
- Number of attempts: 7