VimGolfPlayed Challenges
V to the i - 4802 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #943 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2357 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #560 / 753
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1338 / 1624
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11454 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1514 / 4197
- Number of attempts: 5
Refactoring useless Method away - 116 entries
Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 67
- Position: #26 / 34
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 804 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #17 / 247
- Number of attempts: 7
Lisp Condense - 460 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #20 / 158
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1655 / 3683
- Number of attempts: 7
Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #108 / 229
- Number of attempts: 2
Word frequency alignment - 290 entries
You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #139 / 161
- Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #181 / 201
- Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 291 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #115 / 222
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #16 / 196
- Number of attempts: 10
The name of the game - 665 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #150 / 360
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #195 / 446
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 27
- Position: #245 / 480
- Number of attempts: 5
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #224 / 445
- Number of attempts: 4
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #77 / 113
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #369 / 777
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #320 / 419
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #175 / 199
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #210 / 273
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2005 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #386 / 650
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1931 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #319 / 652
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #279 / 458
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 688 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #276 / 408
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1507 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #218 / 412
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2405 / 3694
- Number of attempts: 2
