Played Challenges
Data reformat - 160 entries
Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv
- Best score: 38
- Best player score: 50
- Number of attempts: 2
xrandr outputs and dashes - 437 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
- Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 818 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 866 entries
For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 1
Alphabet soup - 241 entries
Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 38
- Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5635 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 1832 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 94 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 62 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 142 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 1
Add string initializers to an enum - 724 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract wireshark capture filter - 152 entries
Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 2
Label grid cells (6x6) - 18 entries
Label the cells of a grid with its coordinates. Rows are labelled top to bottom from A to F, and columns left to right from A to F. Each cell has a coordinate MN, where M is the row letter and N is the column letter.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat Cura settings - 102 entries
Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json
- Best score: 50
- Best player score: 75
- Number of attempts: 1
Unsemantic linewrapping - 784 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: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 1879 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 3
change parenthesis - 221 entries
change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove quotes after first field - 229 entries
Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 2
If-then-else regexp - 37 entries
Rules: - golf is never following golf - vim comes first! Drawing a finite-state machine diagram could help. #regexp
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 46
- Number of attempts: 1
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 91 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
- Number of attempts: 2
Rule 110 - 32 entries
Compute the next 5 iterations of Rule 110 with the given starting state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110
- Best score: 43
- Best player score: 51
- Number of attempts: 2
Around the clock - 155 entries
You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
Reorder the groups - 1056 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10161 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 6
html paragraph to table - 582 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 66
- Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1193 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
Resort and deup a CSV list - 125 entries
I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.
- Best score: 44
- Best player score: 58
- Number of attempts: 3
Triangular Numbers - 64 entries
Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 3
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 681 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 4
Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 51 entries
Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 721 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7553 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 3
Flip the bit - 92 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 921 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 3
Build a six - 259 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 430 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2027 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
- Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 699 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 884 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 50
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3400 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
Python challenge - 124 entries
Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 51
- Number of attempts: 1
Santa's naughty / nice list - 75 entries
Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 39
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple format (2) - 256 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2689 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3253 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 2
Array Transposition - 160 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 45
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2395 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap the operands under comparison - 240 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 1
Number Sort - 268 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: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 450 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: 22
- Number of attempts: 5
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 219 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Array propagate - 268 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1405 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: 22
- Number of attempts: 3
Hello ${world} - 271 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 6
Array transposition - 2233 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 3
Create a table - 266 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
Todo list specification - 329 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 39
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 814 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: 19
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple addition - 263 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1245 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: 19
- Number of attempts: 4
Stairstep digits - 228 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 971 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
- Number of attempts: 4
Adam's challenge - 902 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: 22
- Number of attempts: 3
Nesting SASS - 242 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 776 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
- Number of attempts: 2
Combines all items - 255 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 2
Paragraph breaks - 431 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
C Reformatting - 675 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 48
- Number of attempts: 2
Paragraph sort - 356 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
Wrap text in quotes - 315 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2074 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 533 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18132 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 10
Scrambled numbers - 766 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4373 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
Alsa configuration - 478 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 5
Replace and keep the case - 369 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7369 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32563 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
- Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4132 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 739 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 731 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 921 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1519 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
Mute the second method of this script - 420 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11061 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 729 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: 18
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15593 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5389 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 669 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2456 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 932 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3076 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4577 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1903 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
- Number of attempts: 3
Where should I put the Newline? - 830 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2175 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1102 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3346 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 7
quotes inside quotes - 2995 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: 16
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12655 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 976 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 3
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1441 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2293 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 631 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 779 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 37
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2739 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 787 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 6
Make it more readable - 1842 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1773 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 759 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 41
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1718 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: 18
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1113 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
- Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 929 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1168 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 870 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 860 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: 40
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4508 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1270 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1042 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
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1113 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 2
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2761 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11306 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Contributed Challenges
ASCII-art Histogram - 249 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 ;-)
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