VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: #1385 / 7454
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4647 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #899 / 1276
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18798 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #441 / 3880
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values inside brackets - 2521 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #395 / 585
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #177 / 1173
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #193 / 886
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7954 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #849 / 1886
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #250 / 385
- Number of attempts: 2
html paragraph to table - 606 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #31 / 126
- Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1524 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: 18
- Position: #219 / 463
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11509 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2514 / 4218
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #491 / 1270
- Number of attempts: 2
ninja substitution - 1424 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #227 / 268
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7968 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1330 / 2144
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2240 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #100 / 681
- Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 866 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #137 / 229
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1776 / 4195
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2242 / 3695
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12975 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #2946 / 3971
- Number of attempts: 1
Transposition - 100 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #27 / 33
- Number of attempts: 2
