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: #419 / 7442
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18755 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2593 / 3870
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4813 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #909 / 1897
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #94 / 755
- Number of attempts: 7
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #6 / 701
- Number of attempts: 2
Align commas - 1095 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #156 / 246
- Number of attempts: 3
vim1001 - 307 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #29 / 110
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #485 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #171 / 354
- Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #39 / 116
- Number of attempts: 3
Lisp Condense - 460 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #76 / 158
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 29
- Position: #17 / 64
- Number of attempts: 8
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: 16
- Position: #462 / 586
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #318 / 437
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1911 / 3689
- Number of attempts: 9
attr_aligner - 3522 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #268 / 703
- Number of attempts: 9
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: 16
- Position: #598 / 1079
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12967 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #448 / 3969
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 14
- Position: #1352 / 3737
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7154 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #1122 / 1754
- Number of attempts: 1
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