VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33722 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: #158 / 7442
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18755 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3139 / 3870
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4813 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #99 / 1897
- Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2364 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #95 / 755
- Number of attempts: 7
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #411 / 1630
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #11 / 701
- Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11483 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #147 / 4209
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5683 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #5 / 1269
- Number of attempts: 11
Vice versa - 7945 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #65 / 2138
- Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4305 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #111 / 1191
- Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 793 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #208 / 281
- Number of attempts: 1
Fill visual area - 91 entries
Just have fun!
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #6 / 38
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1039 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #240 / 290
- Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #99 / 239
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 804 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #22 / 247
- Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #87 / 4189
- Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #34 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 7
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #13 / 354
- Number of attempts: 6
120 Degrees - 493 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #113 / 145
- Number of attempts: 2
Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries
Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #4 / 64
- Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 2024 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #572 / 586
- Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #116 / 437
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #486 / 3689
- Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: 14
- Position: #171 / 1079
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12967 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #449 / 3969
- Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2552 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #364 / 757
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #269 / 778
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5079 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #375 / 1749
- Number of attempts: 7
Make it more readable - 2009 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #290 / 652
- Number of attempts: 3
Assignment Alignment - 885 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #127 / 221
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 12989 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #298 / 3737
- Number of attempts: 9
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7154 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #554 / 1754
- Number of attempts: 4
