VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #977 / 1630
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #234 / 382
- Number of attempts: 2
Two become one - 713 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #85 / 208
- Number of attempts: 3
Piphilology - 146 entries
Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #33 / 53
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1184 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #133 / 250
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #2652 / 3691
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: 17
- Position: #816 / 1079
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12967 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2608 / 3969
- Number of attempts: 1
Stairs Indenting - 479 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #119 / 199
- Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #330 / 480
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2552 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #583 / 757
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #380 / 778
- Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2147 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #395 / 666
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and double space - 500 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #177 / 199
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #817 / 1749
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 2009 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #394 / 652
- Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1358 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #256 / 336
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13012 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1278 / 3743
- Number of attempts: 3
