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Played Challenges

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 235 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 107
Best player score: 116
Number of attempts: 3

Create bison tokens - 31 entries

Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words

Best score: 85
Best player score: 86
Number of attempts: 5

Lower cased and dashed strings - 41 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 60
Best player score: 81
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor arguments into object argument - 156 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 50
Number of attempts: 1

Change The Perspective - 31 entries

This is a go game recodes file(.sgf file, refer to http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/). It base on such a coordinate system: in vertical direction, is from top(farthest end) to bottom, mark as a,b,c,...，s(19*19 board); in horizontal direction, is from left to right, uses the same notations. For Example, the coordinate notation 'cq', is the position at the bottom-left corner(vertical coordinate first). The record is from one player's perspective. We need to change to another's, but we don't want to change coordinate system, let it keep top to bottom and left to right. so we have to change the coordinates, a <-> s, b <-> r,c <-> q, etc. the Position 'cq', as transformation, it will be 'qd'.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 45
Number of attempts: 1

expand a list comprehension (python) - 240 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 45
Number of attempts: 2

Long prime list - filter version - 19 entries

I've used the maximum input/diff/output size allowed by vimgolf to get a list of integers up to 1460 separated by newlines, and your goal is to only keep the lines containing primes. There are 232 of them I hope some of you will golf vimscript itself to create some function to run as a primality check for each line, which is a good exercise if you haven't done much vimscript yet! You're invited to also try copy-pasting and doing other non-smart text manipulation. Even more interesting would be to see a solution that uses text manipulation to do the filtering! Whether you use vimscript, normal-mode primality checks, or text manipulation, as long as the end result is valid, your answer will be valid! Let's see which method does better here. Best of luck!

Best score: 28
Best player score: 44
Number of attempts: 1

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 130 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 42
Number of attempts: 1

Define to require - 113 entries

When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.

Best score: 62
Best player score: 69
Number of attempts: 1

Piphilology - 114 entries

Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

Best score: 29
Best player score: 38
Number of attempts: 1

HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 59 entries

We did this a VimGolf challenge at work and now that we have finished I want to see if you guys can come up with something even better than we could. Our best solution was 44 keystrokes.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Number of attempts: 2

Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 25 entries

sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files

Best score: 31
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 1

Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 18 entries

Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 1

vim = 22 / 7 - 391 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 496 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 1

Braces or Brackets? - 617 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 2

On Being Stylish - 41 entries

Your PR cannot be accepted if you don't follow our corporate style guide.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 512 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 58
Number of attempts: 3

50 factorials mod 97 - 24 entries

List 1! to 50!, but give your answer mod 97.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 1

Permutations N=4 - 39 entries

Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !

Best score: 25
Best player score: 33
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 812 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

Sort and add attributes - 1043 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 33
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Haiku - 246 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Number of attempts: 3

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 150 entries

FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 31
Number of attempts: 6

Simple Maths - 27 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 31
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 441 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Number of attempts: 2

Across-Down Flip - 37 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 31
Number of attempts: 1

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 183 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Number of attempts: 1

Add fold markers to a .c file - 439 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Number of attempts: 5

Subnetting - 56 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 232 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Number of attempts: 3

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 346 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Number of attempts: 3

Array Transposition - 110 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 28
Number of attempts: 2

Multiplication table. - 170 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 33
Number of attempts: 1

Dumb to smart - 80 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 725 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Number of attempts: 3

Flodder-challenge - 787 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Number of attempts: 2

Shift down - 162 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Number of attempts: 3

Readable Rubyhash - 227 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: 23
Best player score: 27
Number of attempts: 1

Python to Ruby - 188 entries

Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 319 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Number of attempts: 3

Two become one - 631 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
Number of attempts: 1

Counting in binary - 322 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Number of attempts: 2

Pairs of numbers - 316 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Number of attempts: 1

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 139 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: 30
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 116 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 464 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: 23
Best player score: 26
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 410 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: 29
Number of attempts: 1

Solve the Sokoban - 158 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Number of attempts: 3

Wget failed to download redirections - 153 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 963 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 4

Cartesian product - 201 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Number of attempts: 3

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 241 entries

"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9016 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 2

Back to the roots - 34 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

Best score: 5
Best player score: 23
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 118 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Number of attempts: 1

REDRUM - 131 entries

If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 3

Generate a list of numbers - 216 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 1

Entries sort - 69 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty format for variable declarations - 128 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 1

Swap the operands under comparison - 164 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 7
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 350 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and double space - 401 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 4

increment by column in XML - 138 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Number of attempts: 7

Enumerate words - 219 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Number of attempts: 3

Vim tetris - 301 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 1660 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: 22
Number of attempts: 4

120 Degrees - 337 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 3

Suffix sort - 163 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 2632 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: 2
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 1

TAR archive pretty print - 10 entries

Will you use isk ?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 257 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 543 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 1764 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 2

Restore order to the alphabet - 149 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 2

Case preserving word replacement - 383 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 588 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 2

Assign list - 145 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Number of attempts: 2

Angular naming conventions - 260 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Number of attempts: 5

Extract argument from function - 1791 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 2

Enharmonic Equivalents - 52 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 799 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 6

Context insensitive completion 0 - 440 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Number of attempts: 2

Extended Customer 2 - 39 entries

Format the chars

Best score: 47
Best player score: 62
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 929 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1684 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffle and Sort - 171 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 3071 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

Top X - 177 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Number of attempts: 3

Lisp Condense - 356 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 5294 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 2
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 6

Turn this csv list into queries - 181 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 104
Number of attempts: 2

Separating firstname & lastname - 96 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 3118 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 5

Happy TvvO - 339 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 93 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 821 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

Prime Numbers - 261 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 393 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Number of attempts: 2

un-C-escape string - 52 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

Winning streak - 105 entries

Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Lots of function arguments - 66 entries

The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 10273 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 20844 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: 5
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 7

Mirror Symmetry - 676 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 1550 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
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 315 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Number of attempts: 1

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 23 entries

Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!

Best score: 51
Best player score: 53
Number of attempts: 1

Fun With The Diagonal - 74 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 1

Linear congruential generator - 104 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1235 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting a glossary - 99 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Number of attempts: 1

Square numbers - 57 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 846 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 3

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 177 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Number of attempts: 1

Test everything! - 111 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Number of attempts: 2

Change name of a variable - 143 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Number of attempts: 1

underscore_to_camelCase - 134 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 1

Line Zipper - 388 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 1

swap or reverse - 87 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 487 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
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

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 196 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 562 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 863 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: 19
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 757 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 2

Printable ASCII characters - 95 entries

From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Number of attempts: 2

Word Blender - 118 entries

The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 856 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 425 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1024 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: 12
Number of attempts: 3

paste indent correction - JS - 75 entries

You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 663 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 465 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 70 entries

A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Number of attempts: 1

Replacing some words - 402 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 2
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 571 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 1

CSV to JSON - 141 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 63
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 237 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1403 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
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 1841 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Number of attempts: 2

Pretty multi-line bash - 189 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 9863 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 806 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

Align commas - 734 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: 14
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 1685 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 1

Not enough Ps - 44 entries

Different type of code

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 995 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: 20
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat long lines - 308 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 1

remove all lines in first part - 141 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 2

Number Sort - 180 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: 9
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 781 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5335 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Number of attempts: 6

Groups magic - 134 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 318 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 1

Array of characters - 107 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Number of attempts: 1

Interleave lines - 125 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 482 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 10037 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 3495 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Number of attempts: 2

Checkerboard case pattern - 106 entries

All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 3

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 123 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 854 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 2

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 314 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph breaks - 377 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 1

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 199 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 2

Complete the hex array data - 174 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII Art - 67 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Number of attempts: 1

sort python functions and methods alphabetically - 13 entries

* sort functions in the python file alphabetically * sort functions within a Class alphabetically * sort Classes alphabetically

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 581 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

Reverse Simple Deletion - 692 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2488 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 6

Sort entries based on date - 292 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4069 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 3
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 2

Switch function arguments - 1771 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 547 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1187 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 1995 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 3

Shuffle puzzle - 284 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1099 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Number of attempts: 2

Happy New Year! - 129 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 3819 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 3

Combines all items - 222 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 1571 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: 11
Number of attempts: 4

Paragraph sort - 288 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: 1

Greek Letters - 39 entries

Starting with a list of Greek letters, create a cross-reference table showing all of the Greek alpha-beta. You'll likely need to use digraphs (:help digraphs). Note that while most digraphs can be entered with either character first, lowercase sigma has two digraphs -- s* AND *s! Good luck!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 58
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 150 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Number of attempts: 4

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 472 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Number of attempts: 1

Roman numerals - 57 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 1

Un"finnish"ed Work - 98 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 214 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 660 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 1

Line 'em up! - 268 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
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 602 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 3

Unwrap the text of an email message - 135 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: 16
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 4072 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 2
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 12

Wrap text in quotes - 264 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 2

Recursively Palindrome - 204 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting database text output - 183 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Number of attempts: 1

Mirrored text - 149 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1703 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 2

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 133 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 8425 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Number of attempts: 4

Free hyphen! - 109 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 472 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 140 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 665 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Number of attempts: 2

Stairs Indenting - 357 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 360 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 5

Make Fancy Header - 874 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 2

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 194 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1195 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 1

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 45 entries

The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 570 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 668 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Number of attempts: 2

fib.c cleanup - 54 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 1

Add links to an existing HTML table - 59 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Best score: 42
Best player score: 42
Number of attempts: 7

Compile C - 275 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Number of attempts: 5

Condensed Cases - 656 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
Number of attempts: 3

A grid of punctuation - 110 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 2

Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 10279 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 4

The holy-grail may help - 292 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 573 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: 16
Number of attempts: 1

Five Pillars - 43 entries

Arrange all words in a table with 5 columns. The minimal space between words in columns is 2 spaces. Columns do have varying width.

Best score: 41
Best player score: 56
Number of attempts: 1

Indentation - 406 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 303 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 1

Untangle my tail, please! - 44 entries

You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 1

Word frequency alignment - 195 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 919 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 5

Space out the alphabet - 1250 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 1

Custom McCarthy sequence - 22 entries

Generate the first one hundred and twenty numbers (starting with n=1). See here for some inspiration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthy_91_function

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 2

Binary and Increment - 36 entries

Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1158 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: 17
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 477 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 1672 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting folded text - 274 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 1

Manual SQL - 92 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 49
Best player score: 52
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 559 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Number of attempts: 2

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 387 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 1

Letters are numbers - 121 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Number of attempts: 2

Assign numbers to fields - 80 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 378 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
Number of attempts: 2

Array propagate - 206 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 650 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 2

7th Birthday - 148 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Number of attempts: 1

Alsa configuration - 439 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 1

range(10) digit rotation - 27 entries

This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 164 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 1237 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the XML - 821 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 278 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2373 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Number of attempts: 4

From argument to object - 991 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: 18
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 175 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Number of attempts: 1

Acute accents - 24 entries

Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 632 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: 18
Number of attempts: 1

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 137 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 35
Best player score: 35
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 2325 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 510 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 381 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 2779 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Number of attempts: 5

Refactor static member invocation - 163 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Number of attempts: 5

vim1001 - 221 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 2

Inner hyphens - 110 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

Rail fence transposition cipher - 63 entries

Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Number of attempts: 1

Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 157 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Number of attempts: 1

Learn some german verbs - 316 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Number of attempts: 1

Coordinates placeholder - 49 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 3

simple format - 121 entries

make it look better.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 1

Start coding format - 114 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 447 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Number of attempts: 1

42-header - 28 entries

Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 464 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Number of attempts: 1

Insert a Markdown link - 377 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 387 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 407 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Number of attempts: 1

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 187 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 277 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Number of attempts: 1