Played Challenges
C Reformatting - 654 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 156
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 240 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 152
- Number of attempts: 1
Java Array2List - 214 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
- Best score: 67
- Best player score: 115
- Number of attempts: 3
ASCII-art Histogram - 199 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: 82
- Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 917 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 414 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: 48
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3086 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 44
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple format (2) - 253 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 40
- Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 753 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 38
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2168 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1015 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 896 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 4475 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 6
Song Transcription Oops - 164 entries
When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 27159 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: 26
- Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 899 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 1922 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 810 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 64 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
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 12864 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4226 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Unsemantic linewrapping - 484 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: 19
- Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 863 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: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9782 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1420 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 12
For all cases. - 105 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
create arrows in a list - 65 entries
Add arrow at same distance
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
unknown command - 114 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4451 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 3
Stairstep digits - 223 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2259 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 9764 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 1375 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
- Number of attempts: 4
Delete to the end of the current line - 562 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 2254 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4152 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 911 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 2711 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 720 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: 37
- Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2256 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 2
Saving the hashes(#) - 1806 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: 33
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1809 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: 18
- Number of attempts: 1
Convert Application Output to CSV - 135 entries
Change the application output to comma-separated values
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 3634 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 6
Hello ${world} - 238 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 61
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 742 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: 21
- Number of attempts: 3
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 85 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: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 6307 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 355 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 773 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Create a table - 251 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 2189 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 5
Extract text from xml - 101 entries
Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 68
- Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 186 entries
This shouldn't be too tough
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 4
Adam's challenge - 833 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: 25
- Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2036 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 1770 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1643 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: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 3790 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 736 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: 17
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 605 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 1
Hidden Message - 54 entries
Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 111
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 11444 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 4854 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 4778 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 5
Align commas - 896 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: 18
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 14411 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 9
Reorder the groups - 740 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 1109 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 7
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 326 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: 46
- Number of attempts: 1
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 540 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 2