VimGolfPlayed Challenges
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
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 898 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Entries sort - 71 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
Every other line - 2525 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1111 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
xrandr outputs and dashes - 271 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
fib.c cleanup - 58 entries
cleanup the file
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 95 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 280 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 5
Mirror Symmetry - 739 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 4
Vertical Limit - 2243 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
Paragraph sort - 337 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
One to Ten - 1748 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
Right Align Part of the line - 36 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting database text output - 194 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
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 440 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
From A to B - 530 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- 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
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
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1381 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
Combines all items - 255 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
change parenthesis - 219 entries
change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 418 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
- Number of attempts: 3
Complete the hex array data - 188 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
Two become one - 692 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
Song Transcription Oops - 197 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Refactor static member invocation - 185 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
Mirrored text - 154 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
Word frequency alignment - 218 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
Get rid of html tags - 316 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
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 129 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
Capitalize the Names - 125 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap text in quotes - 311 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 199 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 768 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 2
Pretty format for variable declarations - 129 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11067 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-b-c- - 2902 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 30428 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
- Number of attempts: 7
Com(m)a Trouble - 2837 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 165 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 204 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 1
remove all lines in first part - 149 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
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 368 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
Exchanging Quotes - 777 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove quotes after first field - 217 entries
Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Groups magic - 137 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
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 202 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 1
Python: Lots of function arguments - 73 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
Around the clock - 152 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
- 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
- Number of attempts: 1
paste indent correction - JS - 76 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
Build a six - 257 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 889 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
Convert Application Output to CSV - 138 entries
Change the application output to comma-separated values
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
Back to the roots - 38 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph breaks - 431 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 1
50 factorials mod 97 - 36 entries
List 1! to 50!, but give your answer mod 97.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 34
- 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
The holy-grail may help - 302 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 90 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 526 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 757 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 2
Saving the hashes(#) - 1876 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
Array of characters - 132 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
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 280 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
Switch function arguments - 1888 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
Flodder-challenge - 819 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap assigned value - 518 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 3
Sorting a glossary - 101 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
Not enough Ps - 52 entries
Different type of code
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 389 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 3
Line 'em up! - 280 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 - 669 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
Inner hyphens - 114 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
Increment, increment, increment.... - 521 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 2
Linear congruential generator - 104 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate words - 225 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- 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
- Number of attempts: 5
Get mail address from outlook format - 378 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 196 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
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
Words in parens - 12094 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 4
A grid of punctuation - 112 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2024 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 522 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
Letters are numbers - 127 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
expand a list comprehension (python) - 266 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
Hash staircase - 36 entries
Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim's not included features - 157 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat most common surnames - 538 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 4
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
- Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 975 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 2
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
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 325 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
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 28 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
Line Zipper - 402 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 1
swap or reverse - 91 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
7th Birthday - 180 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
V to the i - 4380 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 2
Readable Rubyhash - 232 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
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
Multiplication table. - 182 entries
Create a multiplication table.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 929 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
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
- Number of attempts: 1
42-header - 36 entries
Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 558 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 3932 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 5
Pretty multi-line bash - 199 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 1
REDRUM - 136 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
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 36 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 3
- Best player score: 3
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 71 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
Subnetting - 72 entries
Split up the IP addresses in the right way.
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 649 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1166 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 2
Add fold markers to a .c file - 447 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
Simple format (2) - 256 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 2
Array Transposition - 160 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 140 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 309 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
Fix the Haiku - 247 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
Reverse and double space - 423 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 4
A simple change - 376 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 624 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
Reformat a C golf submission - 488 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
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse characters in a line - 602 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
Alphabet soup - 157 entries
Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 1
Vim tetris - 347 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1042 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 4
Stairs Indenting - 384 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 143 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
Yo To Hello - 413 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
Dumb to smart - 81 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 1
Add string initializers to an enum - 631 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 16697 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 509 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
Test everything! - 113 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
readability - 292 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 2
Happy TvvO - 367 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Multiline to Single Line - 46 entries
Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2165 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
Word Blender - 128 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
Triangular Numbers - 64 entries
Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 2946 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
- Number of attempts: 1
Free hyphen! - 130 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
Braces or Brackets? - 644 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
Flip the bit - 88 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1359 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
Hatsuyume - 368 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 5
Align commas - 949 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
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 91 entries
In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 2
Restore order to the alphabet - 159 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 2
C Reformatting - 665 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 854 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
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
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 213 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2463 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
Don't know what this is - 1872 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
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 339 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
Reverse Simple Deletion - 736 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 3
Where should I put the Newline? - 830 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 3
Unwrap the text of an email message - 154 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
Alsa configuration - 478 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
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
- Number of attempts: 1
Shift down - 189 entries
Number words are back.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 3
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
- Number of attempts: 1
CSV to JSON - 143 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
- Best score: 56
- Best player score: 63
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 457 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: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 259 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 677 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple Maths 2 - 17 entries
Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Insert a Markdown link - 390 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
Assign list - 146 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 924 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 2
NATO phonetic alphabet - 413 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 227 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2134 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
Separating firstname & lastname - 102 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2483 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
Angular naming conventions - 279 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
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 155 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1669 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
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 143 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
un-C-escape string - 53 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
On Being Stylish - 50 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
Refactor arguments into object argument - 159 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 50
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat long lines - 317 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
Minimalist Limerick - 494 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 1635 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- 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
Add semicolons - 8274 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4446 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 731 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple Maths - 34 entries
Not much to say, discover by yourself!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 1
Add text at some column - 112 entries
Complete golang struct statement.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 348 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 1
Recursively Palindrome - 220 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- 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
Wget failed to download redirections - 168 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
Cool or not? - 673 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1481 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
Array transposition - 1995 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 2
unknown command - 119 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 517 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
Change name of a variable - 148 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
Suffix sort - 166 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
Start coding format - 128 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 421 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
- Number of attempts: 1
vim = 22 / 7 - 408 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 2
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 213 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Five Pillars - 56 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
imports alignment (python) - 584 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
Enharmonic Equivalents - 52 entries
Transform # and b to digraphs
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember FizzBuzz? - 548 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 58
- Number of attempts: 3
Acute accents - 28 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
Counting in binary - 405 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
switch variable - 4665 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1764 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 6387 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 1
Roman numerals - 58 entries
Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4199 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Top X - 182 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
Turn this csv list into queries - 190 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
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
I forgot quotes - 14512 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 6
Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 25 entries
Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 248 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5165 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 12
Manual SQL - 94 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
- Best score: 49
- Best player score: 52
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1812 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Assign numbers to fields - 86 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
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1038 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
attr_aligner - 3245 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 5
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
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2728 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 6
Binary and Increment - 41 entries
Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- 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
Swap the operands under comparison - 240 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 565 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
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
- Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 245 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 3
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
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 22 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 369 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5694 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 32
- Number of attempts: 6
Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 26 entries
sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 425 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2393 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 2
Data reformat - 114 entries
Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv
- Best score: 38
- Best player score: 38
- Number of attempts: 2
Hole-in-one - 963 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
Just the middle - 10464 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 4
Interleave lines - 126 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
prepend * to every non-blank line - 3447 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 2
ninja substitution - 1017 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules - 689 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 62 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 2950 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10151 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
Shuffle puzzle - 302 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
convert yml into java pojo field - 781 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
Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 51 entries
Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 28
- Number of attempts: 1
Fun With The Diagonal - 89 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 1
range(10) digit rotation - 32 entries
This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 328 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
- Number of attempts: 2
Join 'em - 192 entries
This shouldn't be too tough
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
Array propagate - 264 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 811 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 471 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 163 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
Coordinates placeholder - 52 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1221 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
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 161 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
Unsemantic linewrapping - 636 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
- Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1074 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 5
Change the content of a string - 1267 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 1
increment by column in XML - 140 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
Quote modules (ver.2) - 112 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Number of attempts: 1
Checkerboard case pattern - 107 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
Sort and add attributes - 1113 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 923 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 6
Piphilology - 123 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
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 859 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
Number Sort - 263 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
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 211 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat some Python - 519 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove semicolons after expressions - 499 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Number of attempts: 2
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 136 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
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
Greek Letters - 50 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
Condensed Cases - 729 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 3
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
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
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 918 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 904 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- 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
Mute the second method of this script - 418 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 2
Case preserving word replacement - 395 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
Going underground.... - 303 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
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
TAR archive pretty print - 14 entries
Will you use isk ?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Number of attempts: 1
Square numbers - 63 entries
Boring math puzzle.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 362 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
Across-Down Flip - 42 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 31
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1479 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 406 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 1
underscore_to_camelCase - 141 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
Assignment Alignment - 722 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 2
Add to end of each line... kinda - 278 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
remove dupes from array - 1260 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
Sort entries based on date - 305 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 2
Prime Numbers - 302 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 39
- Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 922 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 1
ASCII Art - 77 entries
how good are you with simple regex?
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 1
Extended Customer 2 - 44 entries
Format the chars
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 62
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 596 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy New Year! - 129 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse and count - 383 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
replacing each line of a block selection - 2694 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 4
Indentation - 418 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Number of attempts: 1
Santa's naughty / nice list - 75 entries
Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 51
- Number of attempts: 3
Lisp Condense - 400 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 399 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Number of attempts: 1
Pairs of numbers - 340 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
vim1001 - 244 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
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
Vice versa - 6936 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 6
Cartesian product - 203 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 26
- Number of attempts: 3
Replacing some words - 405 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1637 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1
Un"finnish"ed Work - 103 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 784 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