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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1255 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #88 / 414
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1534 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #51 / 482
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2362 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #326 / 668
Number of attempts: 2

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 306 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #58 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1336 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #81 / 309
Number of attempts: 3

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #92 / 370
Number of attempts: 4

Python: Def to Lambda - 423 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #42 / 149
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 4368 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #421 / 1072
Number of attempts: 3

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: 21
Position: #185 / 457
Number of attempts: 7

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: #161 / 296
Number of attempts: 4

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: #149 / 292
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: 12
Position: #117 / 213
Number of attempts: 4

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: 18
Position: #46 / 166
Number of attempts: 9

Yo To Hello - 1115 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #329 / 518
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: 23
Position: #2795 / 7364
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #518 / 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: #722 / 1517
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #736 / 3842
Number of attempts: 6

vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #50 / 131
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #209 / 569
Number of attempts: 10

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: #147 / 224
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4751 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1475 / 1879
Number of attempts: 2

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: 13
Position: #260 / 840
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #111 / 244
Number of attempts: 8

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1739 / 3044
Number of attempts: 3

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: #206 / 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: #160 / 630
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #836 / 1144
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #326 / 827
Number of attempts: 7

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #549 / 1865
Number of attempts: 4

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 125 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #32 / 44
Number of attempts: 3

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: #193 / 376
Number of attempts: 8

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: #142 / 450
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #263 / 700
Number of attempts: 6

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: #178 / 635
Number of attempts: 6

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: 14
Position: #383 / 744
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #855 / 1585
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #274 / 695
Number of attempts: 3

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: 10
Position: #208 / 314
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3163 / 4164
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #319 / 581
Number of attempts: 4

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 63 entries

I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #35 / 37
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #298 / 1258
Number of attempts: 10

Simple addition - 310 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #74 / 117
Number of attempts: 2

Combines all items - 303 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #123 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #845 / 2101
Number of attempts: 4

Sort files from hosts - 179 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #29 / 74
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: #135 / 255
Number of attempts: 5

Change attribute to getter - 133 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #42 / 57
Number of attempts: 8

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: 12
Position: #103 / 241
Number of attempts: 10

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: #338 / 662
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: 27
Position: #194 / 496
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #177 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 59 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 3
Best player score: 3
Position: #36 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 248 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #7 / 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: 10
Position: #137 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

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: #119 / 259
Number of attempts: 6

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #168 / 443
Number of attempts: 8

Swap assigned value - 626 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #188 / 250
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #513 / 1186
Number of attempts: 3

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #147 / 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: #133 / 440
Number of attempts: 6

Line 'em up! - 392 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #35 / 110
Number of attempts: 14

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: 13
Position: #96 / 242
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1234 / 4161
Number of attempts: 9

Subtraction - 178 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #14 / 61
Number of attempts: 12

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #423 / 1129
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #86 / 351
Number of attempts: 3

Lisp Condense - 438 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #84 / 154
Number of attempts: 7

120 Degrees - 468 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #32 / 143
Number of attempts: 9

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #122 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #205 / 293
Number of attempts: 4

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: #235 / 578
Number of attempts: 3

Two become one - 710 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #37 / 205
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2491 / 3667
Number of attempts: 2

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: #168 / 511
Number of attempts: 7

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: 14
Position: #346 / 1072
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1156 / 3946
Number of attempts: 4

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: 16
Position: #12 / 40
Number of attempts: 4

Block Fun 1 - 189 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #17 / 73
Number of attempts: 13

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 96 entries

Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #15 / 36
Number of attempts: 7

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #55 / 191
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #320 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

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: #244 / 439
Number of attempts: 8

Unwrap the text of an email message - 185 entries

Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #35 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 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.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #124 / 473
Number of attempts: 8

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #324 / 441
Number of attempts: 4

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: #176 / 738
Number of attempts: 5

Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #41 / 225
Number of attempts: 7

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: #217 / 768
Number of attempts: 7

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #320 / 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: #248 / 403
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #995 / 1736
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #298 / 356
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: 14
Position: #193 / 640
Number of attempts: 4

Line Zipper - 450 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #62 / 210
Number of attempts: 6

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: #103 / 331
Number of attempts: 6

imports alignment (python) - 661 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #53 / 194
Number of attempts: 13

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #106 / 639
Number of attempts: 5

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: #181 / 401
Number of attempts: 4

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: #154 / 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: #520 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #378 / 512
Number of attempts: 4

Compile C - 365 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #26 / 132
Number of attempts: 12

Reformat a C golf submission - 559 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #136 / 200
Number of attempts: 2

Get rid of html tags - 368 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #10 / 217
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #291 / 558
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #351 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #223 / 384
Number of attempts: 5

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: 14
Position: #1869 / 3581
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 33
Position: #265 / 1616
Number of attempts: 7

Contributed Challenges

Fill in the chess board - 905 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).