VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32746 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: 28
- Position: #4025 / 7235
- Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5776 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #606 / 1421
- Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10429 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #31 / 2954
- Number of attempts: 4
Put the months in order - 911 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #72 / 154
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap assigned value - 525 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #100 / 226
- Number of attempts: 1
Word frequency alignment - 232 entries
You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #109 / 141
- Number of attempts: 1
fib.c cleanup - 58 entries
cleanup the file
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #50 / 50
- Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate words - 226 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #16 / 82
- Number of attempts: 2
Transposition - 67 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #13 / 27
- Number of attempts: 2
Prefixes and suffixes - 533 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #94 / 175
- Number of attempts: 2
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 356 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #103 / 173
- Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 979 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #354 / 407
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2300 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #249 / 701
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 511 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #169 / 225
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 304 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #165 / 190
- Number of attempts: 1
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 160 entries
According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #29 / 59
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1045 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: #163 / 328
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2774 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #225 / 632
- Number of attempts: 5