VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Swap values - 4616 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #744 / 1268
- Number of attempts: 1
Separate the lines - 182 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #42 / 92
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4802 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1330 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #544 / 1624
- 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: #83 / 166
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 12
- Position: #258 / 322
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11454 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2754 / 4197
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1836 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #376 / 588
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #145 / 1264
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
- Position: #219 / 291
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1045 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #367 / 424
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirrored text - 177 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #29 / 71
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #123 / 140
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 560 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #261 / 347
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 427 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #134 / 206
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #691 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 1
Split the words - 368 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #33 / 111
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2352 / 3683
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 17
- Position: #922 / 1078
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12935 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2715 / 3963
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #171 / 229
- Number of attempts: 2
A simple change - 461 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #121 / 191
- Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 420 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #151 / 192
- Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 665 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #243 / 360
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #122 / 273
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1050 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #481 / 664
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #339 / 458
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 688 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #351 / 408
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 17
- Position: #2514 / 3694
- Number of attempts: 1
