VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 799 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #48 / 421
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #113 / 1630
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 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: #220 / 382
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #4 / 149
- Number of attempts: 2
Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #71 / 180
- Number of attempts: 6
The holy-grail may help - 377 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #74 / 212
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 885 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #101 / 221
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1057 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: #184 / 667
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 480 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #69 / 178
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 compat - 634 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #135 / 235
- Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 540 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #72 / 187
- Number of attempts: 4
Almost encrypted - 204 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #60 / 146
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1593 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #47 / 594
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1477 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #62 / 575
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1589 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #185 / 425
- Number of attempts: 1
Braces or Brackets? - 1054 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #61 / 324
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3742 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #187 / 803
- Number of attempts: 7
Flodder-challenge - 1326 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #50 / 346
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12989 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #873 / 3737
- Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7154 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #419 / 1754
- Number of attempts: 1
