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: 42
- Position: #7194 / 7447
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4643 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1085 / 1274
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18776 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #3226 / 3875
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 151
- Position: #581 / 583
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4818 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1867 / 1898
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 40
- Position: #814 / 857
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2154 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #624 / 635
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3880 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #851 / 878
- Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1521 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: 33
- Position: #353 / 381
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 27
- Position: #585 / 641
- Number of attempts: 5
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #111 / 129
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11495 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3583 / 4213
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7953 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #2090 / 2140
- Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 857 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: 37
- Position: #199 / 227
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple format (2) - 335 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #48 / 70
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4308 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #1183 / 1192
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #3837 / 4192
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #3408 / 3691
- Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12967 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2461 / 3969
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 13017 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #3573 / 3745
- Number of attempts: 3
