VimGolfPlayed Challenges
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: 22
- Position: #522 / 7421
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values - 4616 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #77 / 1268
- Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18727 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1623 / 3864
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2144 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #54 / 634
- Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #795 / 1624
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11454 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #659 / 4197
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #32 / 1264
- Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7907 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #198 / 2128
- Number of attempts: 8
Align commas - 1095 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #131 / 246
- Number of attempts: 3
O Christmas Tree - 109 entries
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #16 / 43
- Number of attempts: 3
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #16 / 269
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4298 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #222 / 1190
- Number of attempts: 4
VimGolfNight - 560 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #125 / 347
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #420 / 4180
- Number of attempts: 5
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #9 / 437
- Number of attempts: 4
Going underground.... - 356 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #33 / 128
- Number of attempts: 5
Split the words - 368 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #16 / 111
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #975 / 3683
- Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3520 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #30 / 702
- Number of attempts: 11
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: #306 / 518
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 14
- Position: #80 / 1078
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12935 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #204 / 3963
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 16
- Position: #44 / 304
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 20
- Position: #15 / 480
- Number of attempts: 9
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #19 / 754
- Number of attempts: 10
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #52 / 777
- Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5071 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #779 / 1748
- 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: 13
- Position: #217 / 3694
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #301 / 1706
- Number of attempts: 6
