VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Sort and Tag - 202 entries
The goal is to sort these lines alphabetically, assign a unique identifier to each line in the format "[01]", "[02]", etc., and then restore the original order of the lines while preserving the assigned identifiers.
- Best score: 36
- Best player score: 92
- Position: #35 / 55
- Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4515 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #485 / 1106
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33722 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: 25
- Position: #3430 / 7442
- Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6332 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #763 / 1545
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18755 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2315 / 3870
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10881 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1785 / 3072
- Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #868 / 1169
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #323 / 421
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7916 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #980 / 1881
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #748 / 1630
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16014 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2394 / 4188
- Number of attempts: 2
Insert a Markdown link - 450 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #92 / 149
- Number of attempts: 3
Getters & Setters: Java - 211 entries
Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...
- Best score: 89
- Best player score: 122
- Position: #36 / 59
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #590 / 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: 39
- Position: #106 / 142
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #377 / 460
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #73 / 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: 32
- Position: #139 / 180
- Number of attempts: 2
Dumb to smart - 100 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #44 / 57
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1361 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #289 / 531
- Number of attempts: 3
Remember FizzBuzz? - 738 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 69
- Position: #148 / 193
- Number of attempts: 5
Get rid of html tags - 407 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #136 / 236
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1591 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #241 / 593
- Number of attempts: 2
Deleting folded text - 386 entries
The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #78 / 121
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #297 / 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: 20
- Position: #156 / 425
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 53
- Position: #267 / 324
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3742 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #679 / 803
- Number of attempts: 3
Flodder-challenge - 1325 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #214 / 346
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12971 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2866 / 3733
- Number of attempts: 2
