VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Quicksort - 2005 entries
We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #384 / 442
- Number of attempts: 1
Populate 3D bone names list - 633 entries
Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #130 / 163
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove line numbers - 736 entries
From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #94 / 198
- Number of attempts: 4
Find fix point of cos - 1408 entries
Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #180 / 418
- Number of attempts: 2
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 561 entries
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #160 / 314
- Number of attempts: 2
Paste a column after a column - 2557 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #367 / 558
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1625 entries
Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #299 / 349
- Number of attempts: 2
delete swap - 1788 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #299 / 557
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the shell script! - 2596 entries
Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #445 / 603
- Number of attempts: 1
Visual block training - 1075 entries
You see the input. You see the output. Go.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #105 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2501 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #301 / 709
- Number of attempts: 3
Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries
Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #97 / 130
- Number of attempts: 1
simple replacements - 1802 entries
The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #208 / 390
- Number of attempts: 5
Python dataclasses - 1192 entries
Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #263 / 295
- Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1402 entries
Modernise and clean up some C++ code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #141 / 324
- Number of attempts: 7
Multiline to Single Line - 735 entries
Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #229 / 311
- Number of attempts: 3
xrandr outputs and dashes - 716 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #144 / 224
- Number of attempts: 10
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: 27
- Position: #4079 / 7447
- Number of attempts: 3
