VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: 29
- Position: #4839 / 7447
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4643 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1150 / 1274
- Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6353 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #1280 / 1549
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18776 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1314 / 3875
- Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4818 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1325 / 1898
- Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2897 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #669 / 857
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #77 / 101
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1001 / 1169
- Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3880 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #735 / 878
- 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: 20
- Position: #338 / 460
- Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2875 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #525 / 641
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1394 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 3
Number Sort - 314 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #77 / 166
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11495 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2743 / 4213
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 992 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #230 / 272
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7953 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #1878 / 2140
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4308 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #661 / 1192
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #3835 / 4192
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1006 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12967 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3501 / 3969
- Number of attempts: 1
