VimGolfPlayed Challenges
A Simple One - 860 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
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1270 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5734 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat a C golf submission - 489 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 4
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 129 entries
Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 304 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
imports alignment (python) - 586 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 7
Compile C - 281 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 531 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 42
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 736 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 527 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1113 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse and count - 384 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
- Number of attempts: 4
Assignment Alignment - 722 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 10
Generate English Alphabets - 425 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 758 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 44
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 11200 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 2
Java Array2List - 216 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
- Best score: 67
- Best player score: 111
- Number of attempts: 2
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 281 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 107
- Best player score: 129
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 859 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: 42
- Number of attempts: 2
Getters & Setters: Java - 189 entries
Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...
- Best score: 89
- Best player score: 248
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove Accent off the Letter - 100 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 61
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1690 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 7
Braces or Brackets? - 644 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 50
- Number of attempts: 2
expand a list comprehension (python) - 267 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
- Best score: 42
- Best player score: 54
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1113 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 929 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 405 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1168 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 4