Played Challenges
Replace word while reserving first letter case - 373 entries
Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #37 / 87
- Number of attempts: 5
Quicksort - 1562 entries
We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #39 / 345
- Number of attempts: 7
Find fix point of cos - 1138 entries
Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #90 / 341
- Number of attempts: 4
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 488 entries
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #26 / 273
- Number of attempts: 3
Paste a column after a column - 2262 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #6 / 491
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat symbols in list - 1472 entries
Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #77 / 324
- Number of attempts: 10
delete swap - 1540 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #55 / 483
- Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1581 entries
Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #43 / 527
- Number of attempts: 3
hello-world-vimgolf - 2367 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #35 / 670
- Number of attempts: 4
Inverting Lines - 1837 entries
A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #37 / 498
- Number of attempts: 5
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 306 entries
Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Position: #148 / 195
- Number of attempts: 2
Modernise code - 1336 entries
Modernise and clean up some C++ code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #78 / 309
- Number of attempts: 5
swap number pairs - 2011 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #281 / 370
- Number of attempts: 4
Python: Def to Lambda - 423 entries
LAMBDA!!!
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #32 / 149
- Number of attempts: 9
Rural Post - 4368 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #89 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 20
- Position: #88 / 457
- Number of attempts: 9
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: 9
- Position: #149 / 296
- Number of attempts: 9
Multiline to Single Line - 668 entries
Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #96 / 292
- Number of attempts: 8
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: #97 / 166
- Number of attempts: 11
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #340 / 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: 10
- Position: #362 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1545 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 10
Quote modules (ver.2) - 211 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #52 / 56
- Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 189 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #52 / 99
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #682 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #467 / 516
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #469 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 7
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 35 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Position: #21 / 32
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #416 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 9
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #76 / 700
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #173 / 635
- Number of attempts: 8
Array propagate - 319 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #105 / 115
- 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: 35
- Position: #66 / 127
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1461 / 4164
- 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: 46
- Position: #140 / 271
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #252 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #582 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 14
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 88 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #38 / 61
- 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: 12
- Position: #328 / 662
- Number of attempts: 6
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 137 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #37 / 73
- Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2004 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #392 / 496
- Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #10 / 135
- Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #509 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1104 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #298 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 6
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #293 / 293
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1569 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1146 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 7
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 48 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #22 / 42
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #635 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 11
- Position: #59 / 500
- Number of attempts: 12
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: #513 / 643
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse and count - 456 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #8 / 172
- Number of attempts: 2
Contributed Challenges
Python dataclasses - 1105 entries
Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class
Paste a column after a column - 2262 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?