VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33612 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: #563 / 7416
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18722 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #61 / 3860
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4802 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #292 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2872 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #14 / 640
- Number of attempts: 8
Extract argument from function - 2357 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #138 / 753
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #454 / 1621
- Number of attempts: 5
Acute accents - 33 entries
Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #16 / 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 450 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #50 / 125
- Number of attempts: 2
Array of characters - 175 entries
We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #40 / 47
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #11 / 184
- Number of attempts: 8
Greek column realign - 51 entries
Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #12 / 25
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15977 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #427 / 4177
- Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #169 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 6
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #171 / 300
- Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1630 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #148 / 518
- Number of attempts: 5
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #39 / 480
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5071 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #425 / 1748
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12760 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2456 / 3684
- Number of attempts: 2
Contributed Challenges
Array of characters - 175 entries
We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.
