VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 766 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #180 / 410
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 13
- Position: #61 / 753
- Number of attempts: 4
Across-Down Flip - 68 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #10 / 26
- Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #119 / 300
- Number of attempts: 4
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #70 / 437
- Number of attempts: 2
Vim tetris - 353 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #16 / 102
- Number of attempts: 6
Mess in revision history - 1184 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #20 / 250
- Number of attempts: 6
Shuffle puzzle - 346 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #59 / 104
- Number of attempts: 8
attr_aligner - 3520 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #20 / 702
- Number of attempts: 13
quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: 15
- Position: #391 / 1078
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 348 entries
"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #42 / 107
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12935 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1195 / 3963
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 5
- Position: #51 / 161
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #47 / 174
- Number of attempts: 5
Define to require - 127 entries
When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.
- Best score: 62
- Best player score: 63
- Position: #10 / 50
- Number of attempts: 7
REDRUM - 166 entries
If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #38 / 65
- Number of attempts: 2
Circle in a square - 152 entries
Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #19 / 54
- Number of attempts: 6
Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #56 / 201
- Number of attempts: 5
Refactor arguments into object argument - 166 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #15 / 68
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #136 / 754
- Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5071 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #146 / 1748
- Number of attempts: 4
The meaning - 575 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #179 / 363
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 310 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #133 / 148
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1050 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: #320 / 664
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 688 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #258 / 408
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #142 / 527
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
- Position: #1317 / 3694
- Number of attempts: 2
