VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Switch function arguments - 1876 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 14296 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 2942 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
Where should I put the Newline? - 824 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2682 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11015 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 301 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1007 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2136 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2230 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 5
Recursive Cowsay - 49 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Create a pandoc compatible table - 158 entries
In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 11996 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 29847 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: 26
- Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 7791 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 16287 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 2
vim = 22 / 7 - 408 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 38
- Number of attempts: 3
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 364 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 42
- Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 776 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Cartesian product - 202 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 104
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 6054 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 5
VimGolfNight - 469 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 622 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2127 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Recursive Cowsay - 49 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
Jan Wedekind
Twitter: @wedesoft
Computer science PhD dabbling with programming languages, machine vision, and free software