VimGolf21125 active golfers, 216184 entries, 383 challenges
Open VimGolf challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 17338 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.
One number per line - 8179 entries
Just give me the numbers.
I forgot quotes - 8520 entries
Oops.
Just the middle - 7608 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 8370 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
Words in parens - 9539 entries
We should all ace this, right?
Learn some german verbs - 145 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
Team names - 785 entries
The team names are misspelled.
Vice versa - 4644 entries
Little role switching.
Simple text editing with Vim - 9415 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
Swap values - 2684 entries
Well, swap the values...
Array transposition - 865 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
Basic renumbering - 3586 entries
Renumbering Basic.
Collect List - 2785 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
multiple cursor alternative - 652 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
From argument to object - 818 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?
Every other line - 1470 entries
AaAaAaA
V to the i - 3151 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
Split line with dots - 1574 entries
This line is too long, split it.
Copy three lines - 1372 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5238 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
switch variable - 3879 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
-a-b-c- - 2135 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
attr_aligner - 2631 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
Missing Library and a Typo - 465 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 618 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
Adam's challenge - 518 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
comment and uncomment code inline - 488 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.
quotes inside quotes - 2508 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 :)
Search and Replace 0 - 3647 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
That hyphen - 1708 entries
"vim vi improved"
Extract argument from function - 1700 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 126 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
Order and join - 562 entries
There's something special about the input order.
Don't know what this is - 1467 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
replacing each line of a block selection - 2256 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
Array propagate - 132 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
Space out the alphabet - 1146 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
Subnetting - 41 entries
Split up the IP addresses in the right way.
Vertical Limit - 1884 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
comments galore - 771 entries
Basic comment reformatting
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2358 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
Todo list specification - 252 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
Align commas - 613 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.
C Reformatting - 512 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
Saving the hashes(#) - 1557 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.
Scrambled numbers - 612 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
Switch function arguments - 1666 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
Letter case trickery - 1309 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.
Make HTML List - 753 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
Make it more readable - 1630 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
Fix the XML - 783 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 934 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
Hello ${world} - 182 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
Simple addition - 200 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
Numbering a List - 1665 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
Count both ways - 825 entries
Right AND down.
Mirror Symmetry - 648 entries
Add backslashes.
Create a table - 177 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
Paragraph breaks - 370 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
From A to B - 455 entries
Mirror and change this text block
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1209 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
camel riding - 656 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
Mess in revision history - 885 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
Stairstep digits - 188 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
Shebangs for all - 1525 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.
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 128 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
Where should I put the Newline? - 766 entries
Help me put the newline.
Hole-in-one - 921 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.
Alsa configuration - 425 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
Nesting SASS - 182 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
Condensed Cases - 634 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.
remove dupes from array - 1139 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
Combines all items - 217 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
Gray area - 591 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
Paragraph sort - 284 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
Change the content of a string - 1182 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 846 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
Two become one - 620 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
The Cake is a Lie - 1091 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
Add Go XML to structure tags - 117 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
Wrap text in quotes - 256 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
Sort and add attributes - 1027 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1015 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!
Separate the lines - 112 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
Append semicolon after expressions - 807 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
Text to HTML Table - 112 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
Reconstruct the Sentence - 974 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
Replace and keep the case - 313 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
Un"finnish"ed Work - 93 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 165 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.
Generate a list of numbers - 207 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
Mute the second method of this script - 382 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
Exchanging Quotes - 714 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
Make Fancy Header - 854 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
A Simple One - 792 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
Pretty multi-line bash - 184 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 788 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.
Flodder-challenge - 780 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
For all cases. - 86 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
Angular naming conventions - 251 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!
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 633 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
Happy TvvO - 325 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
The name of the game - 546 entries
End up with the name of the game.
Remove noise from HTTP log - 561 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
Lisp Condense - 350 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
VimGolfNight - 432 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
Reverse Simple Deletion - 676 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
lipsum lines - 224 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
Add to end of each line... kinda - 243 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?
Line 'em up! - 260 entries
It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!
7th Birthday - 137 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.
readability - 267 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
120 Degrees - 330 entries
Rotate that triangle.
Assignment Alignment - 645 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
HTML to Haml - 639 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
Swap assigned value - 470 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
ASCII box - 279 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
Prefixes and suffixes - 448 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
Braces or Brackets? - 614 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
Sort files from hosts - 116 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
Minimalist Limerick - 431 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
Logging with key - 258 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
lamb had a little Mary - 439 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
The meaning - 477 entries
Numbers are fun!
imports alignment (python) - 563 entries
Align as one import per line.
Back to the roots - 29 entries
Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?
Ruby 1.9 compat - 542 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!
vim = 22 / 7 - 384 entries
pi square vim
Shuffle puzzle - 280 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.
Reverse characters in a line - 523 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
Vim tetris - 295 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
Remove semicolons after expressions - 418 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
Remember FizzBuzz? - 509 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
create arrows in a list - 60 entries
Add arrow at same distance
Split the words - 308 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.
Reformat most common surnames - 496 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
Reformat some Python - 491 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
Reverse and double space - 398 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
Start coding format - 99 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
Counting in binary - 312 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 22 entries
sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files
Interweave two blocks of text - 451 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?
NATO phonetic alphabet - 362 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
Pairs of numbers - 309 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
Delete unwanted lines - 306 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
Shuffled numbers - 191 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
Change attribute to getter - 81 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
Going underground.... - 277 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
A grid of punctuation - 108 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
Stairs Indenting - 344 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
Mirrored text - 132 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
underscore_to_camelCase - 131 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 455 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
A simple change - 333 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
Reformat a C golf submission - 450 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
Replacing some words - 382 entries
How fast could it be?
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 136 entries
Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 393 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!
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 141 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.
42-header - 24 entries
Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school
Increment, increment, increment.... - 437 entries
Vim likes macros
Add fold markers to a .c file - 437 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
Sorting paragraphs - 436 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
vim1001 - 212 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
Array of characters - 102 entries
We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.
Context insensitive completion 0 - 427 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.
Format java properties - 61 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_".
Extract HTML option values from tag values - 71 entries
Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 211 entries
Just testing.
Sorting database text output - 177 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?
Line Zipper - 384 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 310 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."
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 308 entries
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
Vim's not included features - 145 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
Indentation - 395 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
Case preserving word replacement - 378 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
Generate English Alphabets - 383 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
Restore order to the alphabet - 145 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
Reverse and count - 375 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
Insert a Markdown link - 371 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
Inner hyphens - 107 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 369 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
Hidden Message - 40 entries
Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.
Free hyphen! - 104 entries
Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?
learn vim in short time - 172 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
Hatsuyume - 355 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 180 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 343 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
Wget failed to download redirections - 150 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.
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 231 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!
Sort entries based on date - 284 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
Refactor static member invocation - 155 entries
Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.
Shift down - 151 entries
Number words are back.
Suffix sort - 157 entries
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
Sorting a glossary - 92 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
abcd > a b c d - 229 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
Table Reshuffle - 310 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
Reformat long lines - 305 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
remove all lines in first part - 124 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!
Get rid of html tags - 303 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
Readable Rubyhash - 221 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!
Enumerate words - 216 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
Create Leading Zeros - 183 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
increment by column in XML - 133 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
Number an outline - 194 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
Interleave lines - 123 entries
This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!
Subtraction - 145 entries
Solve the equations.
The holy-grail may help - 278 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
Alphabetize the directory - 249 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
Pretty format for variable declarations - 128 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 19 entries
Convert from one format to another
Deleting folded text - 273 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.
Manual SQL - 92 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
Compile C - 270 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
Word frequency alignment - 192 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...
Change name of a variable - 136 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.
sort python functions and methods alphabetically - 13 entries
* sort functions in the python file alphabetically * sort functions within a Class alphabetically * sort Classes alphabetically
Change your calendar - 188 entries
Happy New Year!
Prime Numbers - 253 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
Python to Ruby - 188 entries
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
Top X - 163 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
Fix the Haiku - 246 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
expand a list comprehension (python) - 240 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 118 entries
One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 40 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!
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 233 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
Flatten repo - 22 entries
For each git repository (<project> tag) translate name attribute to flatten directory structure. Add path attribute if missing (because checkout hierarchy must be kept). #xml
Winning streak - 102 entries
Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.
Fun With The Diagonal - 66 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 183 entries
1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation
ASCII Art - 65 entries
how good are you with simple regex?
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 157 entries
col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?
Assign list - 145 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
Refactor arguments into object argument - 155 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
swap or reverse - 86 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
mp3 - Cutlist - 12 entries
An audio CD was accidentally ripped into one single mp3 file. A dummy cue-file now needs to be filled out with the correct values to get single mp3 files.
Block Fun 1 - 158 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
Java Array2List - 210 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
Lenny Spiral - 8 entries
Make one lenny into an infinite army of lennys.
Test everything! - 96 entries
... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.
Assign numbers to fields - 75 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
Recursively Palindrome - 202 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
Sort the cardinal numbers - 196 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
Dehamlizing - 155 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
Shuffle and Sort - 159 entries
The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be
Round Round - 199 entries
Round Round
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 196 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
TAR archive pretty print - 10 entries
Will you use isk ?
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 192 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 191 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
Double and switch - 35 entries
Aaaanother case switcher
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 176 entries
Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.
Winding path - 91 entries
It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 151 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.
constructor - 161 entries
coding a constructor for a simple class
Piphilology - 102 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
Complete the hex array data - 174 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
Entries sort - 69 entries
It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !
Separating firstname & lastname - 80 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
formatted text to markdown - 170 entries
You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.
Turn this csv list into queries - 180 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
Groups magic - 131 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
Cartesian product - 178 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
Multiplication table. - 168 entries
Create a multiplication table.
REDRUM - 129 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.
Inconsistent real estate paste - 140 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 134 entries
Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.
Circle in a square - 119 entries
Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.
Create a pandoc compatible table - 132 entries
In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 128 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?
Refactoring useless Method away - 74 entries
Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement
Almost encrypted - 162 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
Unwrap the text of an email message - 119 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?
Draw the Go board - 108 entries
which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))
Define to require - 113 entries
When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.
Solve the Sokoban - 158 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
Fill visual area - 66 entries
Just have fun!
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 86 entries
Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.
SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 116 entries
Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.
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.
O Christmas Tree - 88 entries
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 148 entries
According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max
Checkerboard case pattern - 106 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
Sudoku table - 50 entries
Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.
Land of the Lost - 60 entries
Enter the tabs below the lyrics
CSV to JSON - 141 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
Changing URL path in CSS - 111 entries
What's the quickest way to swap out all the URLs in a CSS file? Is it wasted keystrokes using look-behinds and look-aheads? (I'm sorry for the delete/report--I made a mistake with the last one requiring an ugly search for graphic to replace with images. I just intended this to be a simple search and replace that might possibly generate some macros or normals solutions that are quicker)
Overall Vimgolf Rank - 138 entries
Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.
Extract text from xml - 101 entries
Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.
Comparing scores - 68 entries
If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.
Calculate the table totals - 105 entries
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries
Implementing the methods of a Java Interface
Happy New Year! - 129 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
Getters & Setters: Java - 129 entries
Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...
Printable ASCII characters - 95 entries
From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.
Ninjas Leaderboard - 79 entries
The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 125 entries
Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 116 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 93 entries
Move the pipes so they match the output.
Letters are numbers - 121 entries
Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?
Splits long lines in more readable ones - 1 entries
Those tests have too long lines. We have to split the to have more readable ones. This is based on a real project with Ruby and RSpec.
Word Blender - 118 entries
The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?
ascii-art diamond - 27 entries
Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.
Format the output - 95 entries
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
Square numbers - 53 entries
Boring math puzzle.
Roman numerals - 57 entries
Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.
SQL to YAML - 32 entries
Should be easy with vim, or not?
paste indent correction - JS - 75 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
Lower cased and dashed strings - 39 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 ;)
Palindrome numbers - 10 entries
For each number compute its associated palindrome. First number (first line) has been eaten! #prime
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.
It's a factor - 75 entries
Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.
Linear congruential generator - 103 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
Not enough Ps - 43 entries
Different type of code
Execute immediate SQL - 72 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
Remove Accent off the Letter - 100 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
Create an alphabet diamond - 74 entries
Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...
Create bison tokens - 30 entries
Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words
Tiny column alignment - 37 entries
Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!
Chucking wood - 68 entries
An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)
Complete the circuit grid! - 72 entries
Continuing from the last challenge, add additional rows to the grid. Change each of the names from 'A1'...'A10' to 'B1'...'B10', 'C1'...'C10', etc, and for each new row add 0.7 to the X values in the (X Y) at the end of each line.
SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 70 entries
A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.
Lookahead and Lookbehind - 62 entries
Look everywhere
Greek column realign - 40 entries
Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*
Make the circuit grid! - 71 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.
Before there was Farmville... - 90 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 83 entries
Same class but reverse!
Python: Lots of function arguments - 66 entries
The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.
Flip the chessboard - 66 entries
White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.
Transposition - 64 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 57 entries
Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.
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.)
SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 66 entries
Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)
C to VimDict - 38 entries
Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.
Remove hard line breaks - 34 entries
Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.
Sierpinski's Triangle - 62 entries
Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.
Dumb to smart - 80 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 61 entries
Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.
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.
JSON string rotation - 35 entries
Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!
Five Pillars - 43 entries
Arrange all words in a table with 5 columns. The minimal space between words in columns is 2 spaces. Columns do have varying width.
Here, piggy, piggy... - 75 entries
Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...
fib.c cleanup - 54 entries
cleanup the file
Binary and Increment - 32 entries
Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.
Carriage return - 40 entries
I have some raw data from terminal output which uses carriege return for formatting. Carriage return sets the pointer to the first character on the line, and subsequent characters will overwrite what was there before. The challange is to simulate the terminal behaviour in vim. I'm kind of unsure if I should have skipped lines 9 and 15, since there might be some interesting solutions which are not that generic. Happy Golfing!
Enharmonic Equivalents - 52 entries
Transform # and b to digraphs
Return the cow - 66 entries
This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.
Coordinates placeholder - 47 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.
Convert regular pandoc footnotes to in-line notes - 51 entries
Pandoc extends markdown by allowing footnotes, which are usually represented with a footnote identifier followed later in the document by the footnote itself. But Pandoc also allows inline footnotes without identifiers. How many strokes does it take to convert regular footnotes to inline notes? (NB: I've had trouble figuring out whether text-width makes a difference to Vimgolf in comparing the input and output file. I finally tested this locally using the Vimgolf vimrc and did a "gq" on the entire buffer as the last step. Apologies if I'm making a newbie mistake. First time submitter.)
Recursive Cowsay - 41 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
Permutations N=4 - 39 entries
Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !
Chinese Multiplication Table - 46 entries
Print a Chinese multiplication table in Vim. In China, every kid is asked to memorize this table. And thanks to the mono-syllabism of Chinese characters, it is not that hard. Printing the multiplication table is also a good exercise for programming beginners. For-loop, escaped characters, etc... There should be some special ways to print it in Vim.
un-C-escape string - 52 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
Untangle my tail, please! - 39 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?
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...
Presidential Sorting - 45 entries
Given a nice CSV formatted arrangement of the Presidents of the United States, we need to print out an alphabetical list in pretty columns. Prove that vim can conquer this basic Excel task!
Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 26 entries
For each line take 4th dirname of path. For example: "alsa-utils", "gawk-3.1.5", ... But! But if previous result is "files", take 3rd dirname instead. For example: "mktemp", "mklibs" ... If version is present in package name (dash is the separator character), take it. For example: "apt-0.9.9.4" prevails over "apt". And finally, use sort -u to get unique names!
Under the cupola - 37 entries
Taking some liberty about the name and plot of the Stephen King's famous novel (and TV series) to make this challenge. Are you able to recreate graphically the key phrase of the story? (I think is gonna be hard!)
maximun and minimun - 44 entries
Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.
XML to JSON - 41 entries
Convert this xml file into json.
Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 23 entries
Here you need complete 2 tasks: 1. Remove all unwanted continuous blank lines and leave only 1 blank line between paragraphs. 2. Properly capitalize the sentences.
range(10) digit rotation - 25 entries
This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..
Across-Down Flip - 37 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
50 factorials mod 97 - 24 entries
List 1! to 50!, but give your answer mod 97.
Extended Customer 2 - 39 entries
Format the chars
Sort by your own sum - 41 entries
Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.
Simple Maths - 25 entries
Not much to say, discover by yourself!
Maze path - 20 entries
Follow the given motions and mark your path with Xs. Attention: This maze is quite big (20x20), please set your terminal size to at least 82.
Config Sections - 25 entries
Section me!
Fibonacci Triangles - 38 entries
Triangles
Custom McCarthy sequence - 22 entries
Generate the first one hundred and twenty numbers (starting with n=1). See here for some inspiration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthy_91_function
Greek Letters - 39 entries
Starting with a list of Greek letters, create a cross-reference table showing all of the Greek alpha-beta. You'll likely need to use digraphs (:help digraphs). Note that while most digraphs can be entered with either character first, lowercase sigma has two digraphs -- s* AND *s! Good luck!
Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 18 entries
Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.
Refactor to Helpers - 45 entries
This Rails partial is almost all template escapes. Put it into a helper, and refactor each case to methods so we can build out the controls for each. (I've converted to tabs - fighting with Vimgolf's default config shouldn't be part of the challenge.)
LaTeX to XML Math Delimiters - 35 entries
Vim is amazing when used to edit MediaWiki text, but typing "<math> . . . </math>" can be tiresome and frustrating if formulas are used often. LaTeX delimiters are so concise and even come in two flavors: "\( . . . \)" for inline math and "\[ . . . \]" for centered formulas. The goal is to perform the following conversions: "\( . . . \)" becomes "<math>. . .</math>" "\[ . . . \]" becomes "<center><math>. . .</math></center>"
Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 22 entries
Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!
199 Fibonacci Numbers - 34 entries
Generate 199 Fibonacci Numbers using, if you like, the function S(x,y), a vimscript to sum two big numbers in reverse order.
Convert pasted text into Markdown - 13 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.
No naked if allowed! - 15 entries
House style forbids naked condition statements, comments should start with a space character and be on their own line. Good luck!
Change The Perspective - 31 entries
This is a go game recodes file(.sgf file, refer to http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/). It base on such a coordinate system: in vertical direction, is from top(farthest end) to bottom, mark as a,b,c,...，s(19*19 board); in horizontal direction, is from left to right, uses the same notations. For Example, the coordinate notation 'cq', is the position at the bottom-left corner(vertical coordinate first). The record is from one player's perspective. We need to change to another's, but we don't want to change coordinate system, let it keep top to bottom and left to right. so we have to change the coordinates, a <-> s, b <-> r,c <-> q, etc. the Position 'cq', as transformation, it will be 'qd'.
Acute accents - 22 entries
Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.
Conway sequence - 17 entries
Generate the the first fifteen numbers. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence