Played Challenges
Box it - 7553 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Number of attempts: 3
Flip the bit - 92 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 921 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2027 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: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 699 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3397 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 583 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: 16
- Number of attempts: 3
Learn some german verbs - 450 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: 29
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 219 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 5
Array propagate - 268 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 90
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1405 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: 22
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple addition - 263 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1245 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: 17
- Number of attempts: 7
Stairstep digits - 228 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 971 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
- Number of attempts: 5
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 776 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
- Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2770 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 8
Split line with dots - 2074 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18126 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values - 4373 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 6
comments galore - 942 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7369 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 8
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32560 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: 10
Collect List - 4132 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 5
Space out the alphabet - 1519 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11060 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15590 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Number of attempts: 8
Basic renumbering - 5389 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 66
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2456 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4577 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Number of attempts: 7
Don't know what this is - 1903 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: 6
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1066 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 15
- Number of attempts: 12
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10492 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Number of attempts: 5
Letter case trickery - 1507 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: 9
- Number of attempts: 6
quotes inside quotes - 2995 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: 8
Words in parens - 12648 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 1918 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 2739 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 787 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 18
switch variable - 4856 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 425 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Number of attempts: 9
The Cake is a Lie - 1168 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Number of attempts: 4
Fix the Haiku - 249 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: 47
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11306 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Number of attempts: 1