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: 26
- Position: #3611 / 7420
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18727 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2719 / 3864
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #330 / 579
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2144 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #527 / 634
- Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #463 / 865
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 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: 26
- Position: #315 / 380
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1508 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 / 458
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 17
- Position: #285 / 640
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #78 / 166
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #189 / 701
- Number of attempts: 3
comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #192 / 322
- Number of attempts: 3
Learn some german verbs - 533 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #120 / 133
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 40
- Position: #32 / 35
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 887 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #135 / 213
- Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 984 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: 18
- Position: #72 / 270
- Number of attempts: 6
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #120 / 291
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting a glossary - 131 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #61 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1045 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #261 / 424
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 15
- Position: #127 / 246
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4298 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #987 / 1190
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #119 / 444
- Number of attempts: 5
Winning streak - 135 entries
Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #41 / 51
- Number of attempts: 3
Test everything! - 186 entries
... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #41 / 54
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3740 / 4180
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1006 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12935 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2712 / 3963
- Number of attempts: 2
Refactor arguments into object argument - 166 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 84
- Position: #59 / 68
- Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 291 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #217 / 222
- Number of attempts: 2
Stairs Indenting - 473 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #180 / 197
- Number of attempts: 2
Array Transposition - 201 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #45 / 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #119 / 480
- Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #73 / 754
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5071 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1221 / 1748
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat long lines - 358 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #132 / 134
- Number of attempts: 3
Deleting folded text - 360 entries
The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #100 / 117
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3665 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #130 / 787
- Number of attempts: 11
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: 14
- Position: #1707 / 3694
- Number of attempts: 2
