Played Challenges
Satisfy the go linter - 2329 entries
You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #283 / 457
- Number of attempts: 2
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 930 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #223 / 296
- Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 652 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #196 / 213
- Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 747 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #87 / 166
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: #477 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 18
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #895 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #447 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #38 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 6
Quote modules - 1054 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #111 / 274
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #230 / 569
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #379 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 5
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 302 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #48 / 68
- Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #121 / 254
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1408 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #158 / 516
- Number of attempts: 9
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #224 / 630
- Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #556 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #343 / 827
- Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #276 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 10
Triangular Numbers - 90 entries
Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #21 / 26
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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: 19
- Position: #43 / 376
- Number of attempts: 5
From argument to object - 1474 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?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #74 / 450
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #491 / 700
- Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2840 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #84 / 635
- Number of attempts: 7
Array propagate - 319 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #72 / 115
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #195 / 744
- Number of attempts: 3
Start coding format - 147 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #57 / 70
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #843 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 4
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 538 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #47 / 127
- Number of attempts: 3
Number Sort - 305 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: #39 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 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.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #85 / 314
- Number of attempts: 3
Flip the bit - 120 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #61 / 71
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #641 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #82 / 581
- Number of attempts: 5
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #150 / 271
- Number of attempts: 2
Todo list specification - 385 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #60 / 176
- Number of attempts: 5
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 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: 41
- Position: #69 / 364
- Number of attempts: 4
For all cases. - 141 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #54 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 257 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #70 / 138
- Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 856 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #113 / 209
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #452 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 13
Adam's challenge - 957 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #113 / 266
- Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #180 / 287
- Number of attempts: 2
Nesting SASS - 261 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #35 / 93
- Number of attempts: 3
Fun With The Diagonal - 103 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #57 / 79
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #726 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 4
Free hyphen! - 159 entries
Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #75 / 85
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 430 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #13 / 123
- Number of attempts: 5
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #149 / 165
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #181 / 418
- Number of attempts: 4
Mirrored text - 163 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #20 / 69
- Number of attempts: 7
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #8 / 182
- Number of attempts: 9
Align commas - 1049 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: 15
- Position: #114 / 241
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #78 / 136
- Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2165 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #417 / 662
- Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 791 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #221 / 385
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove quotes after first field - 353 entries
Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #58 / 87
- Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #90 / 135
- Number of attempts: 6
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #97 / 443
- Number of attempts: 11
Assign numbers to fields - 105 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #22 / 59
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #78 / 266
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap assigned value - 626 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #88 / 250
- Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #19 / 155
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #217 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 5
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #140 / 274
- Number of attempts: 4
Logging with key - 301 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #21 / 86
- Number of attempts: 8
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #82 / 440
- Number of attempts: 11
Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #124 / 237
- Number of attempts: 1
Test everything! - 162 entries
... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #11 / 52
- Number of attempts: 12
Condensed Cases - 788 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #51 / 242
- Number of attempts: 8
Happy TvvO - 411 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #129 / 202
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #405 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 8
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries
Implementing the methods of a Java Interface
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #10 / 25
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #347 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #44 / 351
- Number of attempts: 4
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 230 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #26 / 100
- Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #210 / 293
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1978 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: 12
- Position: #211 / 578
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #963 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #208 / 692
- Number of attempts: 11
Letter case trickery - 1594 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: 9
- Position: #20 / 511
- Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: #938 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #679 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 9
Hole-in-one - 1012 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: #184 / 302
- Number of attempts: 3
Word frequency alignment - 274 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: #102 / 157
- Number of attempts: 6
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 77 entries
Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #20 / 40
- Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 442 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #118 / 189
- Number of attempts: 5
The name of the game - 650 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #231 / 356
- Number of attempts: 2
Alphabet soup - 419 entries
Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #99 / 103
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #476 / 738
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #146 / 652
- Number of attempts: 7
Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #119 / 270
- Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #630 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 5
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #304 / 640
- Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #454 / 639
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #169 / 401
- Number of attempts: 9
A Simple One - 1001 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: #468 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 371 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #60 / 134
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #340 / 401
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 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: 8
- Position: #139 / 232
- Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #135 / 233
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #332 / 737
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #418 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 5
Contributed Challenges
Alphabet soup - 419 entries
Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 538 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 302 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
xrandr outputs and dashes - 652 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!