VimGolfPlayed Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: 35
- Position: #6601 / 7447
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18776 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #3702 / 3875
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 8
- Position: #383 / 421
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7916 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #1575 / 1881
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #1546 / 1630
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 49
- Position: #336 / 382
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #3661 / 4192
- Number of attempts: 2
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 230 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #52 / 99
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2018 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: 25
- Position: #479 / 519
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and count - 480 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #173 / 178
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 634 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #216 / 235
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 696 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #380 / 411
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 585 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #215 / 248
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 622 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #213 / 238
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1596 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #506 / 595
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1477 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #548 / 575
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 30
- Position: #390 / 425
- Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1343 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #322 / 348
- Number of attempts: 1
