Played Challenges
Rural Post - 4368 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #655 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 27
- Position: #302 / 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: 11
- Position: #257 / 296
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 26
- Position: #3619 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1117 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 16
- Position: #1039 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #3002 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #500 / 569
- Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1320 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #547 / 840
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap the operands under comparison - 270 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #76 / 98
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2349 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #617 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #850 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #592 / 827
- Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #647 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 37
- Position: #354 / 376
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 20
- Position: #334 / 450
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #645 / 700
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 21
- Position: #462 / 635
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 26
- Position: #739 / 744
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1354 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 45
- Position: #118 / 127
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #531 / 695
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
- Position: #283 / 314
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3543 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #485 / 581
- Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 57
- Position: #250 / 271
- Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 531 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #117 / 131
- Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #695 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 30
- Position: #257 / 266
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1747 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 3
Order and join - 956 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #220 / 255
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #265 / 418
- Number of attempts: 4
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #168 / 182
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 26
- Position: #231 / 241
- Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #192 / 203
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #379 / 443
- Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 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: 36
- Position: #188 / 223
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #848 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #362 / 440
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #280 / 284
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3297 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1003 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #347 / 351
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #364 / 578
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #3162 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #439 / 692
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 15
- Position: #443 / 511
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #918 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #3291 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 3
Array Transposition - 177 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 68
- Position: #50 / 53
- 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: 28
- Position: #588 / 738
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #514 / 768
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #502 / 652
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1519 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #404 / 640
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #563 / 639
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 20
- Position: #2739 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 59
- Position: #1483 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 2