VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: #104 / 7420
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #405 / 1624
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #82 / 701
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11454 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #413 / 4197
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #407 / 1264
- Number of attempts: 11
Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #41 / 174
- Number of attempts: 2
Vim's not included features - 240 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #51 / 65
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #38 / 269
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap assigned value - 647 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #79 / 254
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4298 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #85 / 1190
- Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #251 / 4180
- Number of attempts: 6
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #46 / 116
- Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: #207 / 1078
- Number of attempts: 4
Hole-in-one - 1018 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #249 / 304
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #73 / 446
- Number of attempts: 5
Happy New Year! - 145 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #13 / 59
- Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1050 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #30 / 664
- Number of attempts: 2
Table Reshuffle - 429 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #102 / 139
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 498 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #24 / 245
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #372 / 3694
- Number of attempts: 6
