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: #618 / 7420
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4616 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #105 / 1268
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18727 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #91 / 3864
- Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4802 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #404 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2144 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #85 / 634
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #22 / 640
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 15
- Position: #453 / 753
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #135 / 701
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11454 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #712 / 4197
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #40 / 1264
- Number of attempts: 5
Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #25 / 122
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7907 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #213 / 2128
- Number of attempts: 3
Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #18 / 77
- Number of attempts: 3
C Reformatting - 690 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #38 / 163
- Number of attempts: 8
Paragraph sort - 450 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #20 / 125
- Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph breaks - 522 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #102 / 167
- Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 1045 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #198 / 424
- Number of attempts: 3
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #14 / 184
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 11
- Position: #43 / 246
- Number of attempts: 6
A grid of punctuation - 137 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #18 / 61
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #29 / 140
- Number of attempts: 3
From A to B - 591 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #28 / 159
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4298 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #239 / 1190
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #451 / 4180
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #176 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1011 / 3683
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3520 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #119 / 702
- Number of attempts: 11
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: #244 / 1078
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12935 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #700 / 3963
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5071 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #434 / 1748
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #431 / 3694
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #149 / 1706
- Number of attempts: 4
