VimGolf21595 active golfers, 220993 entries, 385 challenges
Open VimGolf challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 18144 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.
One number per line - 8742 entries
Just give me the numbers.
I forgot quotes - 8913 entries
Oops.
Just the middle - 7832 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 8528 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
Words in parens - 9693 entries
We should all ace this, right?
Vice versa - 4785 entries
Little role switching.
Team names - 913 entries
The team names are misspelled.
Simple text editing with Vim - 9534 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
Swap values - 2792 entries
Well, swap the values...
Number Sort - 77 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
Basic renumbering - 3708 entries
Renumbering Basic.
Array transposition - 939 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
Collect List - 2854 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
Learn some german verbs - 214 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
Every other line - 1547 entries
AaAaAaA
multiple cursor alternative - 708 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
V to the i - 3216 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
From argument to object - 842 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
Split line with dots - 1594 entries
This line is too long, split it.
Copy three lines - 1404 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5246 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
switch variable - 3902 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
-a-b-c- - 2196 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
attr_aligner - 2641 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
quotes inside quotes - 2530 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 :)
Missing Library and a Typo - 495 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
Adam's challenge - 545 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 626 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
Search and Replace 0 - 3671 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
comment and uncomment code inline - 506 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
That hyphen - 1720 entries
"vim vi improved"
Extract argument from function - 1716 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
Don't know what this is - 1482 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
Order and join - 583 entries
There's something special about the input order.
replacing each line of a block selection - 2268 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
Space out the alphabet - 1160 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
Vertical Limit - 1910 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2360 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
Array propagate - 162 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
comments galore - 780 entries
Basic comment reformatting
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 143 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
Saving the hashes(#) - 1567 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.
Align commas - 618 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.
Scrambled numbers - 629 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
Switch function arguments - 1686 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
C Reformatting - 515 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
Letter case trickery - 1318 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.
Todo list specification - 259 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
Make HTML List - 761 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.