VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: 27
- Position: #3852 / 7442
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4643 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1047 / 1274
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18755 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1690 / 3870
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4813 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1224 / 1897
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1513 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #282 / 460
- Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2915 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #474 / 704
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 15
- Position: #458 / 755
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1127 / 1630
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11484 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2402 / 4209
- Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 1061 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #168 / 274
- Number of attempts: 1
Format java properties - 88 entries
Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #18 / 35
- Number of attempts: 1
Combines all items - 313 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #117 / 140
- Number of attempts: 1
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 entries
Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #33 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort files from hosts - 188 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #70 / 76
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1048 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #216 / 425
- Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 513 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #94 / 128
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #213 / 269
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4305 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #652 / 1191
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #224 / 446
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1039 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #214 / 290
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3209 / 4189
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #654 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #315 / 354
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #362 / 586
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1103 / 3689
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 15
- Position: #474 / 1079
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12967 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2367 / 3969
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2552 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #600 / 757
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2142 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #504 / 665
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #917 / 1749
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7157 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #1289 / 1755
- Number of attempts: 1
