Played Challenges
Find fix point of cos - 1402 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: 22
- Position: #324 / 415
- Number of attempts: 2
Create a diamond comment - 337 entries
Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 307
- Position: #74 / 75
- Number of attempts: 1
CSV to MD format - 413 entries
To convert a CSV list to Markdown list
- Best score: 36
- Best player score: 182
- Position: #90 / 94
- Number of attempts: 2
Python dataclasses - 1136 entries
Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #14 / 284
- Number of attempts: 5
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 954 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #163 / 305
- Number of attempts: 11
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33617 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: 24
- Position: #2966 / 7421
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4616 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #227 / 1268
- Number of attempts: 12
One number per line - 18727 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #421 / 3864
- Number of attempts: 20
V to the i - 4802 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #111 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 13
Add semicolons - 10852 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1895 / 3063
- Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #182 / 865
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #234 / 410
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7905 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #1134 / 1876
- Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #273 / 380
- Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1163 / 1624
- Number of attempts: 2
Across-Down Flip - 68 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 68
- Position: #26 / 26
- Number of attempts: 1
Number Sort - 314 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #12 / 166
- Number of attempts: 2
Letterbox - 145 entries
Make a box!
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 159
- Position: #28 / 28
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11454 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #321 / 4197
- Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1836 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #511 / 588
- Number of attempts: 1
Return the cow - 75 entries
This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 118
- Position: #25 / 30
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #540 / 1264
- Number of attempts: 4
Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 58
- Position: #74 / 82
- Number of attempts: 1
Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #146 / 174
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat Cura settings - 132 entries
Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json
- Best score: 50
- Best player score: 79
- Position: #21 / 24
- Number of attempts: 3
snowflake fractal - 51 entries
From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 657
- Position: #20 / 20
- Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #8 / 227
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap assigned value - 647 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #147 / 254
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 560 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #311 / 347
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 793 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #261 / 281
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #150 / 444
- Number of attempts: 6
Line 'em up! - 421 entries
It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #59 / 114
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1 / 4180
- Number of attempts: 8
Shift down - 209 entries
Number words are back.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #60 / 69
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #368 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 7
Don't know what this is - 2022 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #254 / 585
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1921 / 3683
- Number of attempts: 4
Counting in binary - 526 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #79 / 117
- Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1630 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #292 / 518
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 17
- Position: #712 / 1078
- Number of attempts: 1
Top X - 212 entries
The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #65 / 71
- Number of attempts: 3
Number an outline - 280 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #33 / 78
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12935 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1209 / 3963
- Number of attempts: 6
Pairs of numbers - 363 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #52 / 136
- Number of attempts: 4
Assign list - 192 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #34 / 61
- Number of attempts: 3
Hole-in-one - 1018 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #164 / 304
- Number of attempts: 1
Dehamlizing - 185 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #47 / 72
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #231 / 480
- Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #211 / 754
- Number of attempts: 8
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #250 / 777
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #543 / 663
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5071 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #742 / 1748
- Number of attempts: 3
The meaning - 575 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #182 / 363
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat long lines - 358 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #106 / 134
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1931 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #312 / 652
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1999 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #394 / 516
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #339 / 664
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 688 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #260 / 408
- Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 532 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #45 / 186
- Number of attempts: 8
Reformat a C golf submission - 604 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #160 / 208
- Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3665 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #556 / 787
- Number of attempts: 2
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: #1080 / 3694
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #444 / 1706
- Number of attempts: 6
Contributed Challenges
Find fix point of cos - 1402 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.
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