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: #74 / 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: #133 / 1630
- Number of attempts: 5
Interweave two blocks of text - 661 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #102 / 215
- Number of attempts: 3
Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #62 / 101
- Number of attempts: 2
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 166 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #23 / 69
- Number of attempts: 4
imports alignment (python) - 700 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #79 / 198
- Number of attempts: 1
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 230 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #34 / 99
- Number of attempts: 2
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #61 / 166
- Number of attempts: 4
expand a list comprehension (python) - 334 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
- Best score: 42
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #44 / 110
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat long lines - 361 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: 15
- Position: #8 / 135
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #106 / 206
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1935 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #473 / 654
- Number of attempts: 1
Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #46 / 74
- Number of attempts: 2
Java Array2List - 233 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
- Best score: 67
- Best player score: 120
- Position: #67 / 87
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #95 / 212
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #148 / 407
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #222 / 667
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 439 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #61 / 142
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 26
- Position: #102 / 178
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #207 / 460
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #213 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 550 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #90 / 180
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1361 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #103 / 531
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1063 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #45 / 346
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #77 / 575
- Number of attempts: 3
Add fold markers to a .c file - 660 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #109 / 189
- 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: 20
- Position: #35 / 425
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 38
- Position: #74 / 324
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #897 / 3737
- Number of attempts: 2
