Played Challenges
Yo To Hello - 1115 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #154 / 518
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 23
- Position: #2652 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #485 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #596 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #534 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #179 / 569
- Number of attempts: 2
Unsemantic linewrapping - 890 entries
[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #105 / 224
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1376 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
- Position: #384 / 840
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #868 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #58 / 516
- Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #148 / 630
- Number of attempts: 14
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #226 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #136 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 9
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: 20
- Position: #165 / 376
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #114 / 450
- Number of attempts: 4
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #77 / 174
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #245 / 700
- Number of attempts: 11
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: 18
- Position: #336 / 635
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #232 / 744
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #594 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #259 / 695
- Number of attempts: 9
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: #121 / 314
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2861 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #232 / 581
- 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: #67 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #176 / 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: 19
- Position: #120 / 266
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 13
- Position: #132 / 287
- Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1372 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #101 / 261
- Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #802 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 3
Order and join - 956 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #125 / 255
- Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #79 / 165
- Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #278 / 418
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #47 / 182
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 13
- Position: #105 / 241
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 12
- Position: #134 / 662
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 15
- Position: #106 / 203
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment each number - 977 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #165 / 242
- Number of attempts: 3
Join 'em - 248 entries
This shouldn't be too tough
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #94 / 148
- Number of attempts: 1
change parenthesis - 278 entries
change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #29 / 156
- 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: 20
- Position: #44 / 87
- Number of attempts: 7
Put the months in order - 932 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #58 / 158
- Number of attempts: 7
Reorder the groups - 1137 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #99 / 259
- Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #144 / 443
- Number of attempts: 15
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: #189 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 20
- Position: #44 / 59
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap assigned value - 626 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #185 / 250
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #604 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #143 / 274
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #124 / 440
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #3022 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #387 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #83 / 351
- Number of attempts: 4
Gray area - 732 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #114 / 268
- Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #95 / 293
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #222 / 578
- Number of attempts: 5
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #393 / 431
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1161 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #91 / 247
- Number of attempts: 12
Going underground.... - 339 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: 26
- Position: #11 / 125
- Number of attempts: 8
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #186 / 692
- Number of attempts: 13
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: 10
- Position: #163 / 511
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 15
- Position: #488 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 5
Top X - 191 entries
The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #19 / 69
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1725 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 6
Prefixes and suffixes - 593 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #38 / 193
- Number of attempts: 5
SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 134 entries
Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #9 / 51
- Number of attempts: 7
lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #49 / 163
- Number of attempts: 6
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #238 / 439
- Number of attempts: 6
ASCII-art Histogram - 310 entries
Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #34 / 55
- Number of attempts: 7
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #315 / 441
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #169 / 738
- Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #203 / 768
- Number of attempts: 10
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #309 / 652
- Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #242 / 403
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #128 / 270
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #953 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 558 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #289 / 356
- Number of attempts: 1
Line Zipper - 450 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #189 / 210
- Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1336 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #102 / 331
- Number of attempts: 5
Case preserving word replacement - 453 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #77 / 179
- Number of attempts: 4
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 215 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #26 / 96
- Number of attempts: 4
HTML to Haml - 842 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #131 / 202
- Number of attempts: 2
expand a list comprehension (python) - 301 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
- Best score: 42
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #23 / 106
- Number of attempts: 7
Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #20 / 202
- Number of attempts: 3
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #42 / 639
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1912 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: 12
- Position: #150 / 500
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #499 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 237 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #35 / 85
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #345 / 454
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #250 / 512
- Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #140 / 233
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #201 / 338
- Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #287 / 558
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #803 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 4