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Played Challenges

Substraction (bis) - 57 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #5 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Changing around text with citations - 25 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #4 / 11
Number of attempts: 1

Poorly indented Python comments - 457 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #19 / 84
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 287 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 2
Best player score: 8
Position: #18 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 190 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 38
Position: #9 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 357 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #2 / 124
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 545 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #3 / 127
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 984 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #4 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 446 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #29 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

Innocent Monster - 120 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

Best score: 60
Best player score: 62
Position: #6 / 36
Number of attempts: 4

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 942 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #24 / 332
Number of attempts: 1

Java to JavaScript - 152 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

Best score: 59
Best player score: 59
Position: #2 / 40
Number of attempts: 1

Wikitext headings to markdown - 597 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #2 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 1533 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #4 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 613 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #39 / 185
Number of attempts: 1

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 192 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #4 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

Fill in the chess board - 543 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #21 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

Learn to ask for :help - 397 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #3 / 90
Number of attempts: 3

Plotting some variables in python - 1172 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #1 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

Transpose a python matrix - 591 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #16 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Create a diamond comment - 233 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #9 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

Lowercase first characters - 359 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #44 / 128
Number of attempts: 1

Write Hello World in the 'i use arch btw' -programming language - 25 entries

> "I use Arch btw" is an esoteric programming language based on Brainfuck in which the Brainfuck commands have been replaced with the following keywords: i, use, arch, linux, btw, by, the, way. https://github.com/OverMighty/i-use-arch-btw

Best score: 162
Best player score: 172
Position: #3 / 12
Number of attempts: 3

Migrated to Postgres! - 216 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #13 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Increment number for every 10 lines - 151 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #5 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1072 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #1 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Inverting Lines - 1296 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

CSV to MD format - 298 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #1 / 66
Number of attempts: 3

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 268 entries

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

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #1 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 650 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #2 / 169
Number of attempts: 1

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 224 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #2 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 163 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #2 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 827 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #2 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

Staircase - 31 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #3 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 194 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: 20
Position: #3 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

Put a cross in the square - 121 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #9 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 1473 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #43 / 284
Number of attempts: 2

HS Final exam vimgolf - 666 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #3 / 176
Number of attempts: 2

Extend shell script - 81 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #2 / 31
Number of attempts: 3

Easy modification of ssh config - 199 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #1 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

ssh config skills - 210 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 41
Position: #1 / 51
Number of attempts: 3

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 248 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: 22
Position: #1 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

C to python code snippet - 62 entries

C code can be easily translated into Python code. However, the difference in syntax can make this process tedious and time-consuming. Can Vim help you here?

Best score: 48
Best player score: 49
Position: #4 / 21
Number of attempts: 3

Mr. Hacker - 59 entries

Elvin is hacker. He has piece of users database from some social net site. Recently he installed Vim, and he wants to convert CSV DB to specific format `key=value' where `key' is login and `value' is password, but password in DB is encrypted in ROT13. Help him.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #1 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Def to Lambda - 372 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #3 / 124
Number of attempts: 1

Turn the x - 253 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #17 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Format the CSS - 90 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 43
Position: #6 / 35
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4105 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #14 / 1015
Number of attempts: 3

Satisfy the go linter - 2007 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: 20
Position: #1 / 404
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 781 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #82 / 246
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 522 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #13 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

Data reformat - 241 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #1 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 588 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #9 / 192
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 702 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #9 / 155
Number of attempts: 2

Capitalize the Names - 311 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #1 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1048 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #27 / 481
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1036 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: 22
Position: #44 / 208
Number of attempts: 3

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32904 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: 22
Position: #127 / 7270
Number of attempts: 7

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 828 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #41 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Get mail address from outlook format - 592 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #2 / 182
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 131 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #5 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

Add text at some column - 144 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #3 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4440 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #338 / 1241
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 5959 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #219 / 1463
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18377 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #720 / 3787
Number of attempts: 3

Right Align Part of the line - 91 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #6 / 30
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1015 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #37 / 258
Number of attempts: 1

TAR archive pretty print - 22 entries

Will you use isk ?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #4 / 10
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: 30
Position: #14 / 146
Number of attempts: 2

Quote modules (ver.2) - 194 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #8 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Wget failed to download redirections - 178 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
Position: #50 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Prime Numbers - 326 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #20 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Separate the lines - 159 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #49 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

vim = 22 / 7 - 422 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 34
Position: #106 / 129
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 173 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #3 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Palindrome numbers - 21 entries

For each number compute its associated palindrome. First number (first line) has been eaten! #prime

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #7 / 14
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2431 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #106 / 560
Number of attempts: 2

Unsemantic linewrapping - 826 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: 9
Position: #4 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4639 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #320 / 1856
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2748 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #15 / 815
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 287 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #28 / 63
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 765 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #8 / 226
Number of attempts: 1

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1117 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #50 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

Swap the operands under comparison - 254 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #24 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10539 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #2 / 2988
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 1938 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #34 / 493
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2098 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #3 / 622
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #1 / 1121
Number of attempts: 2

Word Blender - 129 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
Position: #19 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3376 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #138 / 760
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 576 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #217 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 28 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #7 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

Extract wireshark capture filter - 177 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #1 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_part4 - 10 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #2 / 7
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7680 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #545 / 1835
Number of attempts: 1

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 113 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: 10
Position: #5 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

Triangular Numbers - 82 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #1 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Hash staircase - 39 entries

Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #5 / 19
Number of attempts: 1

Cool or not? - 761 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #1 / 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: 19
Position: #24 / 369
Number of attempts: 1

html paragraph to table - 583 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #19 / 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: 18
Position: #201 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 710 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #1 / 166
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2829 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #213 / 686
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2794 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #271 / 625
Number of attempts: 1

Convert Application Output to CSV - 178 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #1 / 49
Number of attempts: 2

Array propagate - 311 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #27 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2215 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #147 / 728
Number of attempts: 2

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 57 entries

Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #8 / 16
Number of attempts: 1

Start coding format - 129 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #14 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4651 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #421 / 1541
Number of attempts: 3

Across-Down Flip - 45 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 31
Position: #15 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 476 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
Position: #4 / 116
Number of attempts: 2

Number Sort - 284 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
Position: #6 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2498 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #106 / 683
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 995 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: 9
Position: #142 / 296
Number of attempts: 1

Flip the bit - 108 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #4 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11136 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #429 / 4112
Number of attempts: 4

On Being Stylish - 61 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #1 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1777 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #3 / 570
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 987 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #22 / 261
Number of attempts: 6

Learn some german verbs - 501 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: 21
Position: #8 / 124
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 574 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
Position: #9 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

Un"finnish"ed Work - 105 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #1 / 55
Number of attempts: 2

Todo list specification - 365 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #81 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Subnetting - 102 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #1 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 28 entries

sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files

Best score: 31
Best player score: 34
Position: #5 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 897 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
Position: #26 / 350
Number of attempts: 4

Extended Customer 2 - 44 entries

Format the chars

Best score: 47
Best player score: 62
Position: #6 / 19
Number of attempts: 1

For all cases. - 127 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #72 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 235 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #43 / 127
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 245 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #43 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Format java properties - 66 entries

Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #10 / 31
Number of attempts: 1

Lenny Spiral - 12 entries

Make one lenny into an infinite army of lennys.

Best score: 35
Best player score: 35
Position: #1 / 5
Number of attempts: 1

Back to the roots - 43 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #1 / 30
Number of attempts: 1

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 46 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #24 / 28
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: 16
Position: #60 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Acute accents - 31 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
Position: #14 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

Long prime list - filter version - 26 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: 27
Best player score: 44
Position: #6 / 8
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5430 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #15 / 1227
Number of attempts: 12

Simple addition - 293 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #49 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 156 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #7 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 88 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #51 / 63
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: 18
Position: #48 / 257
Number of attempts: 1

sort python functions and methods alphabetically - 18 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #2 / 11
Number of attempts: 1

42-header - 36 entries

Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #4 / 13
Number of attempts: 2

Create a table - 302 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #41 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 795 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: 13
Position: #146 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Nesting SASS - 248 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #64 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 155 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
Position: #1 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 25 entries

Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 34
Position: #6 / 13
Number of attempts: 1

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 177 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
Position: #29 / 50
Number of attempts: 6

Add to end of each line... kinda - 289 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
Position: #48 / 156
Number of attempts: 2

Combines all items - 269 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #17 / 123
Number of attempts: 1

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 210 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #34 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap text in quotes - 338 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #4 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

underscore_to_camelCase - 148 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #2 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Fun With The Diagonal - 97 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #6 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1300 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #80 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7520 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #57 / 2043
Number of attempts: 6

Double and switch - 37 entries

Aaaanother case switcher

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #9 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty multi-line bash - 216 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #28 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

7th Birthday - 182 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
Position: #4 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Free hyphen! - 147 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
Position: #34 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 686 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #48 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

Convert pasted text into Markdown - 21 entries

I often need to copy/paste text into Markdown files. The challenge here is to wrap the lines in a way that prefers breaks after periods, commas, or other logical demarcations. There should be no spaces at the beginning of a line.

Best score: 47
Best player score: 65
Position: #3 / 12
Number of attempts: 3

Paragraph sort - 414 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #48 / 120
Number of attempts: 1

SQL to YAML - 45 entries

Should be easy with vim, or not?

Best score: 72
Best player score: 76
Position: #8 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Lower cased and dashed strings - 46 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: 59
Best player score: 81
Position: #12 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 178 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #1 / 59
Number of attempts: 4

Sorting a glossary - 115 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
Position: #5 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 877 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #78 / 241
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph breaks - 483 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #44 / 160
Number of attempts: 1

Array of characters - 135 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
Position: #5 / 41
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 970 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #18 / 410
Number of attempts: 2

Mirrored text - 162 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #23 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

lipsum lines - 247 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #18 / 89
Number of attempts: 3

Inner hyphens - 122 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #15 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 280 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
Position: #51 / 109
Number of attempts: 5

Replace and keep the case - 395 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #4 / 111
Number of attempts: 3

Change attribute to getter - 111 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #27 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

Scrambled numbers - 772 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #42 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

Alsa configuration - 481 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #3 / 123
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: 14
Position: #104 / 236
Number of attempts: 3

Create bison tokens - 34 entries

Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words

Best score: 85
Best player score: 86
Position: #4 / 16
Number of attempts: 5

A grid of punctuation - 117 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 55
Number of attempts: 2

Manual SQL - 114 entries

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

Best score: 49
Best player score: 52
Position: #5 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

Hello ${world} - 293 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #31 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 74 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #4 / 51
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 276 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #1 / 131
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2093 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #1 / 641
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 598 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #1 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 119 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #1 / 62
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: 27
Position: #183 / 472
Number of attempts: 1

Build a six - 267 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #3 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 946 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #56 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII Art - 80 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #3 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 30 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
Position: #5 / 12
Number of attempts: 1

Greek Letters - 60 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
Position: #7 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

Around the clock - 174 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: 13
Position: #1 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 50 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 3
Best player score: 3
Position: #8 / 40
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 228 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #13 / 134
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 711 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #5 / 348
Number of attempts: 1

Song Transcription Oops - 222 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: 15
Position: #3 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 251 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #1 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

Label grid cells (6x6) - 23 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: 33
Position: #4 / 11
Number of attempts: 1

Remove quotes after first field - 319 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 915 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 37
Position: #70 / 155
Number of attempts: 2

Separating firstname & lastname - 112 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #9 / 52
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1112 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #6 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Add Go XML to structure tags - 148 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #1 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

move titles next to url, in quotes - 487 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #28 / 128
Number of attempts: 1

Restore order to the alphabet - 175 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #29 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2312 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 808 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
Position: #1 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Assign numbers to fields - 91 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
Position: #14 / 51
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #50 / 262
Number of attempts: 4

unknown command - 143 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #5 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 556 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #81 / 235
Number of attempts: 3

Binary and Increment - 41 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #2 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 556 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #56 / 153
Number of attempts: 1

Cartesian product - 210 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #23 / 90
Number of attempts: 3

Entries sort - 76 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
Position: #18 / 35
Number of attempts: 1

Simple format (2) - 306 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #1 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4178 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #94 / 1166
Number of attempts: 5

VimGolfNight - 495 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #230 / 327
Number of attempts: 1

Rail fence transposition cipher - 70 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
Position: #14 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 745 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #52 / 267
Number of attempts: 2

swap or reverse - 104 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #39 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 306 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #63 / 145
Number of attempts: 2

Interleave lines - 133 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
Position: #23 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 292 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #22 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1590 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #102 / 433
Number of attempts: 3

remove all lines in first part - 178 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
Position: #27 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

Not enough Ps - 65 entries

Different type of code

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #16 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 958 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #30 / 279
Number of attempts: 1

Line 'em up! - 367 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #25 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 317 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #39 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

50 factorials mod 97 - 47 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #13 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 439 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #103 / 233
Number of attempts: 2

Remove hard line breaks - 58 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #7 / 28
Number of attempts: 2

Custom McCarthy sequence - 31 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
Position: #5 / 12
Number of attempts: 2

Greek column realign - 42 entries

Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #12 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

Winning streak - 113 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #19 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 206 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
Position: #33 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Test everything! - 136 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
Position: #6 / 47
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 752 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #83 / 230
Number of attempts: 3

increment by column in XML - 144 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #1 / 52
Number of attempts: 7

Square numbers - 81 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #4 / 34
Number of attempts: 2

Pretty format for variable declarations - 137 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #15 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Simple Maths - 36 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 31
Position: #4 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 388 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #106 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

C to VimDict - 46 entries

Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #4 / 13
Number of attempts: 3

range(10) digit rotation - 32 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #9 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15728 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #262 / 4114
Number of attempts: 6

Shift down - 191 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #35 / 66
Number of attempts: 3

learn vim in short time - 218 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #83 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #3 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

vim1001 - 269 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #7 / 105
Number of attempts: 2

Roman numerals - 67 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #13 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3118 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #318 / 1112
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 957 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #31 / 340
Number of attempts: 3

Suffix sort - 219 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #31 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 233 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #48 / 112
Number of attempts: 3

Change name of a variable - 161 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
Position: #96 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 431 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #40 / 151
Number of attempts: 2

120 Degrees - 441 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #24 / 140
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 698 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #85 / 259
Number of attempts: 3

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 124 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
Position: #18 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor static member invocation - 193 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #8 / 62
Number of attempts: 5

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 216 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #3 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1105 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #42 / 291
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 1948 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
Position: #55 / 571
Number of attempts: 4

Two become one - 703 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #31 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 842 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #164 / 421
Number of attempts: 3

Vim tetris - 351 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #19 / 100
Number of attempts: 2

Five Pillars - 60 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
Position: #6 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

Piphilology - 124 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
Position: #39 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1143 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #34 / 242
Number of attempts: 5

Shuffle puzzle - 307 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
Position: #63 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 60 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
Position: #12 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

Going underground.... - 315 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
Position: #6 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

Split the words - 348 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #39 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

Permutations N=4 - 60 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 33
Position: #10 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #804 / 3637
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3402 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #116 / 685
Number of attempts: 5

Counting in binary - 412 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #40 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1547 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #134 / 498
Number of attempts: 4

Untangle my tail, please! - 51 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
Position: #18 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3026 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #220 / 1044
Number of attempts: 1

Top X - 189 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
Position: #25 / 68
Number of attempts: 3

Change The Perspective - 36 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
Position: #9 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 338 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
Position: #23 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #624 / 3919
Number of attempts: 4

Pairs of numbers - 345 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
Position: #1 / 129
Number of attempts: 1

Assign list - 150 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #4 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

paste indent correction - JS - 92 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
Position: #34 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 973 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
Position: #76 / 297
Number of attempts: 3

Delete unwanted lines - 358 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #154 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 164 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
Position: #24 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Word frequency alignment - 241 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
Position: #95 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 503 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #23 / 167
Number of attempts: 2

Coordinates placeholder - 61 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #5 / 35
Number of attempts: 3

Define to require - 118 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
Position: #14 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

fib.c cleanup - 58 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #43 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

REDRUM - 139 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
Position: #26 / 58
Number of attempts: 3

Enumerate words - 232 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #28 / 84
Number of attempts: 3

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 75 entries

Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #9 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

Block Fun 1 - 179 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #14 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Groups magic - 141 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
Position: #60 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 567 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #14 / 185
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor arguments into object argument - 160 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 50
Position: #5 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 47 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
Position: #29 / 31
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 260 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #155 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Lots of function arguments - 81 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
Position: #14 / 40
Number of attempts: 1

Readable Rubyhash - 239 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
Position: #41 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

Checkerboard case pattern - 130 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #24 / 53
Number of attempts: 3

NATO phonetic alphabet - 476 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #28 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

Santa's naughty / nice list - 77 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: 51
Position: #16 / 23
Number of attempts: 3

Shuffle and Sort - 183 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #20 / 60
Number of attempts: 4

Printable ASCII characters - 108 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
Position: #7 / 39
Number of attempts: 2

A simple change - 396 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #104 / 175
Number of attempts: 2

Add links to an existing HTML table - 60 entries

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

Best score: 42
Best player score: 42
Position: #2 / 26
Number of attempts: 7

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 131 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
Position: #8 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

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: 38
Position: #6 / 9
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 160 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #11 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

Simple Maths 2 - 26 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #2 / 10
Number of attempts: 1

Tiny column alignment - 39 entries

Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #5 / 18
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 388 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: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #74 / 180
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 627 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #201 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 70 entries

Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #6 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1508 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #216 / 424
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
Position: #7 / 43
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 424 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #13 / 183
Number of attempts: 2

Unwrap the text of an email message - 172 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
Position: #25 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

Array Transposition - 168 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #4 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

Python to Ruby - 190 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #25 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 185 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
Position: #9 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 1961 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
Position: #125 / 466
Number of attempts: 4

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 143 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
Position: #42 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 79 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
Position: #51 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1005 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #90 / 418
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 35 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #5 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 330 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #13 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Recursively Palindrome - 234 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #7 / 71
Number of attempts: 2

Alphabet soup - 392 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #17 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Enharmonic Equivalents - 54 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #10 / 33
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2367 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #148 / 716
Number of attempts: 3

Make the circuit grid! - 77 entries

Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #26 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 202 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #5 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 791 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #33 / 218
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 2791 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #177 / 732
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 1982 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #118 / 627
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 942 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #215 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 445 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #57 / 183
Number of attempts: 4

Remove noise from HTTP log - 660 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
Position: #101 / 260
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 541 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #87 / 235
Number of attempts: 2

un-C-escape string - 54 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #43 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 4917 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #374 / 1701
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 521 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #256 / 336
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 840 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #50 / 173
Number of attempts: 2

Replacing some words - 412 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #25 / 145
Number of attempts: 2

Multiplication table. - 195 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 33
Position: #4 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 280 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #50 / 141
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1891 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #173 / 622
Number of attempts: 2

Line Zipper - 443 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #57 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1290 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
Position: #64 / 325
Number of attempts: 1

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 482 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
Position: #21 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Complete the hex array data - 190 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #10 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Case preserving word replacement - 436 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
Position: #74 / 175
Number of attempts: 2

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 145 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #49 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Sort entries based on date - 339 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #39 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Happy New Year! - 139 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #3 / 56
Number of attempts: 4

imports alignment (python) - 640 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #40 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 251 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #40 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 207 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #13 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 376 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
Position: #25 / 159
Number of attempts: 3

HTML to Haml - 800 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #8 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

expand a list comprehension (python) - 276 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
Position: #25 / 103
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat long lines - 329 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
Position: #24 / 129
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 438 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #13 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 411 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #35 / 139
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1828 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #6 / 625
Number of attempts: 2

Solve the Sokoban - 160 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #4 / 70
Number of attempts: 3

The holy-grail may help - 315 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #141 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1157 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
Position: #74 / 382
Number of attempts: 3

CSV to JSON - 144 entries

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

Best score: 56
Best player score: 63
Position: #8 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 770 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #38 / 210
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1771 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
Position: #38 / 467
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 924 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #418 / 612
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 286 entries

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

Best score: 107
Best player score: 116
Position: #26 / 133
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and count - 412 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
Position: #2 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

Letters are numbers - 136 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
Position: #8 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 220 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #34 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 590 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
Position: #54 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 759 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #36 / 429
Number of attempts: 3

Increment, increment, increment.... - 568 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #5 / 371
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 494 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #15 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Indentation - 446 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #78 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 413 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #2 / 166
Number of attempts: 5

Turn this csv list into queries - 192 entries

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

Best score: 98
Best player score: 104
Position: #15 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

Dumb to smart - 83 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #6 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1203 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #213 / 488
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the Haiku - 261 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
Position: #16 / 105
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 468 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
Position: #91 / 221
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 319 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #13 / 123
Number of attempts: 5

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 427 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #123 / 222
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 180 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #112 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 963 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #101 / 326
Number of attempts: 2

Linear congruential generator - 108 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #25 / 46
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 554 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #32 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 522 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #34 / 193
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 645 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
Position: #62 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 586 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #13 / 186
Number of attempts: 4

Remember FizzBuzz? - 587 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 58
Position: #80 / 166
Number of attempts: 3

Get rid of html tags - 341 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #100 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1350 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #155 / 521
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting folded text - 289 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
Position: #13 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1189 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #194 / 483
Number of attempts: 1

Add fold markers to a .c file - 487 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #39 / 158
Number of attempts: 5

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1151 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
Position: #93 / 347
Number of attempts: 2

Braces or Brackets? - 710 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #20 / 253
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2979 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #91 / 663
Number of attempts: 6

Flodder-challenge - 901 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #51 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 11624 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #376 / 3410
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6014 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #131 / 1481
Number of attempts: 6

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Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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