VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Many duplicates - 1445 entries
Quick and easy
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #12 / 468
- Number of attempts: 7
delete swap - 1786 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #141 / 555
- Number of attempts: 6
Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries
Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #39 / 589
- Number of attempts: 9
Wikitext headings to markdown - 987 entries
Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #63 / 209
- Number of attempts: 19
hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #229 / 708
- Number of attempts: 4
Fill in the chess board - 959 entries
Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 160
- Position: #180 / 185
- Number of attempts: 2
swap number pairs - 2103 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #197 / 380
- Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6308 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #426 / 1537
- Number of attempts: 9
Add semicolons - 10852 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2816 / 3063
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #705 / 1624
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 38
- Position: #94 / 129
- Number of attempts: 6
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #256 / 380
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1125 / 4180
- Number of attempts: 10
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: 14
- Position: #355 / 1078
- Number of attempts: 5
A simple change - 461 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #50 / 191
- Number of attempts: 11
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #134 / 445
- Number of attempts: 8
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #760 / 777
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5071 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #659 / 1748
- Number of attempts: 6
Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #366 / 458
- Number of attempts: 8
The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #274 / 527
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse characters in a line - 771 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #21 / 265
- Number of attempts: 6
Andrii Soldatenko
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