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Generate a very basic Python constructor - 274 entries

I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 81
Position: #70 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 659 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #115 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 244 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 16
Best player score: 57
Position: #69 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

RUST match with enum for Coin - 143 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 110
Position: #23 / 39
Number of attempts: 3

Enumerate Bullets - 204 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 100
Position: #53 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

Easy modification of ssh config - 217 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 40
Position: #54 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 258 entries

Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 46
Position: #45 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4115 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 23
Position: #826 / 1017
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2013 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: 32
Position: #321 / 405
Number of attempts: 2

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 795 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #243 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 525 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 13
Position: #230 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 591 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: 18
Position: #172 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 703 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: 33
Position: #139 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1051 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #455 / 483
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1037 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: 50
Position: #196 / 209
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32953 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: 32
Position: #5888 / 7275
Number of attempts: 2

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 831 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 35
Position: #217 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Get mail address from outlook format - 596 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #166 / 184
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4440 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #1161 / 1241
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 5977 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 23
Position: #1365 / 1468
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18395 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 32
Position: #3637 / 3793
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1019 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #218 / 260
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 819 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 58
Position: #114 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2433 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 27
Position: #509 / 561
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4641 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 16
Position: #1844 / 1857
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2751 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #655 / 815
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 287 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 42
Position: #63 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Add string initializers to an enum - 774 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #210 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10545 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #2640 / 2989
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 1938 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #406 / 493
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2103 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 34
Position: #604 / 623
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1027 / 1121
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3410 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 56
Position: #745 / 764
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7682 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #1433 / 1836
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 761 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #191 / 216
Number of attempts: 1

multiple cursor alternative - 1447 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: 60
Position: #364 / 369
Number of attempts: 1

html paragraph to table - 583 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 98
Position: #114 / 121
Number of attempts: 1

From argument to object - 1262 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: 31
Position: #401 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 711 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #138 / 167
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2829 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 30
Position: #675 / 686
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2801 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 39
Position: #612 / 625
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2218 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #716 / 729
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #1427 / 1549
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2500 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 29
Position: #679 / 683
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11141 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3807 / 4114
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1777 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 29
Position: #564 / 570
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 836 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: 34
Position: #199 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5436 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 31
Position: #1187 / 1228
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 916 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: 34
Position: #252 / 257
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1302 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 36
Position: #235 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7535 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1728 / 2048
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1040 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: 30
Position: #230 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2095 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: 26
Position: #623 / 642
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 1918 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 43
Position: #429 / 472
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 946 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #196 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 713 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 9
Position: #342 / 349
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1112 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 43
Position: #245 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 492 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Position: #124 / 129
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2312 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 50
Position: #410 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

convert yml into java pojo field - 818 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: 38
Position: #195 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4184 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 31
Position: #1151 / 1167
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 36
Position: #426 / 434
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15748 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #3634 / 4116
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3118 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #1076 / 1112
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3402 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 46
Position: #646 / 685
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #3293 / 3919
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 1966 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: 74
Position: #463 / 467
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabet soup - 392 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 43
Position: #84 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2369 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #668 / 717
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2800 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 39
Position: #720 / 735
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 4944 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #1631 / 1708
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3009 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 48
Position: #642 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11657 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 28
Position: #3096 / 3418
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 66
Position: #1416 / 1486
Number of attempts: 1