VimGolfPlayed 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: 22
- Position: #1385 / 7271
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #874 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18378 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #441 / 3788
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values inside brackets - 2431 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #376 / 560
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #177 / 1121
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3376 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #160 / 760
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7680 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #821 / 1835
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 23
- Position: #238 / 369
- Number of attempts: 2
html paragraph to table - 583 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #29 / 121
- 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: 18
- Position: #195 / 417
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11136 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2481 / 4112
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5430 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #467 / 1227
- Number of attempts: 2
ninja substitution - 1300 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #208 / 247
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7522 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1281 / 2044
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2093 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #100 / 641
- Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 808 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #130 / 215
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15728 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1747 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2206 / 3637
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #2902 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 1
Transposition - 73 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #23 / 28
- Number of attempts: 2