VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #46 / 1630
- Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #298 / 382
- Number of attempts: 1
Cartesian product - 259 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #57 / 97
- Number of attempts: 2
Insert a Markdown link - 450 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #142 / 149
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1935 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #357 / 654
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #378 / 407
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2018 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #451 / 519
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1057 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: #47 / 667
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 321 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 91
- Position: #63 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 142
- Position: #102 / 146
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 480 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #107 / 178
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 compat - 634 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #187 / 235
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #61 / 460
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #372 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #143 / 165
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 550 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 103
- Position: #178 / 180
- Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 540 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #150 / 187
- Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 100 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 79
- Position: #55 / 57
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1361 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #403 / 531
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 585 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #218 / 248
- Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 430 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #131 / 141
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 506 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #237 / 247
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 204 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #141 / 146
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1063 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #338 / 346
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 622 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 90
- Position: #229 / 238
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat a C golf submission - 612 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #100 / 209
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 776 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #246 / 267
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1593 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #13 / 594
- Number of attempts: 1
Add fold markers to a .c file - 660 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #139 / 189
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #785 / 3737
- Number of attempts: 1
