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Played Challenges

Levenshtein distance - 104 entries

Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript

Best score: 27
Best player score: 35
Position: #19 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1112 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #173 / 516
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #13 / 7363
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #367 / 1257
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1566 / 3842
Number of attempts: 3

Wget failed to download redirections - 184 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: 18
Position: #29 / 63
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #914 / 1879
Number of attempts: 4

html paragraph to table - 590 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 52
Position: #34 / 123
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #304 / 744
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 147 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #33 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #365 / 1585
Number of attempts: 7

Across-Down Flip - 53 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #12 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #397 / 695
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #55 / 314
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11358 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #179 / 4163
Number of attempts: 4

Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #52 / 271
Number of attempts: 4

Un"finnish"ed Work - 107 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #5 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

Todo list specification - 385 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #36 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 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: 43
Position: #169 / 364
Number of attempts: 3

Extended Customer 2 - 47 entries

Format the chars

Best score: 47
Best player score: 72
Position: #11 / 20
Number of attempts: 3

Flatten repo - 23 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

Best score: 43
Best player score: 50
Position: #3 / 9
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #334 / 1258
Number of attempts: 4

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 161 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #13 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

Create Leading Zeros - 238 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #37 / 80
Number of attempts: 8

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 161 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: 34
Best player score: 36
Position: #20 / 60
Number of attempts: 3

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 178 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: 28
Position: #19 / 51
Number of attempts: 4

Add to end of each line... kinda - 323 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: 13
Position: #115 / 170
Number of attempts: 1

JSON string rotation - 55 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #13 / 19
Number of attempts: 5

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #162 / 261
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7797 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #850 / 2099
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #30 / 75
Number of attempts: 3

Free hyphen! - 159 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: 13
Position: #85 / 85
Number of attempts: 2

C Reformatting - 688 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #56 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 210 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 31
Position: #36 / 62
Number of attempts: 8

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #87 / 418
Number of attempts: 2

Inner hyphens - 124 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #72 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

ascii-art diamond - 35 entries

Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.

Best score: 40
Best player score: 54
Position: #12 / 15
Number of attempts: 3

Maze path - 36 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.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 40
Position: #8 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat Cura settings - 112 entries

Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json

Best score: 50
Best player score: 64
Position: #13 / 21
Number of attempts: 1

Build a six - 272 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #44 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 33 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: 64
Position: #10 / 13
Number of attempts: 3

Greek Letters - 61 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: 60
Position: #8 / 23
Number of attempts: 9

Separating firstname & lastname - 120 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #13 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

Restore order to the alphabet - 188 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #22 / 68
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #13 / 266
Number of attempts: 3

Binary and Increment - 43 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 41
Position: #13 / 17
Number of attempts: 7

Entries sort - 81 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #7 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #10 / 1186
Number of attempts: 5

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #209 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

Rail fence transposition cipher - 70 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #15 / 24
Number of attempts: 7

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #76 / 274
Number of attempts: 5

Land of the Lost - 77 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

Best score: 26
Best player score: 31
Position: #3 / 30
Number of attempts: 6

swap or reverse - 115 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #65 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 312 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #92 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Interleave lines - 158 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: 25
Position: #19 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #36 / 86
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #150 / 440
Number of attempts: 6

Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 33 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!

Best score: 32
Best player score: 35
Position: #4 / 13
Number of attempts: 3

remove all lines in first part - 190 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #15 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Not enough Ps - 66 entries

Different type of code

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #5 / 35
Number of attempts: 3

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 81 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.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #7 / 23
Number of attempts: 4

Fix the XML - 996 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #69 / 284
Number of attempts: 6

Line 'em up! - 392 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #11 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffled numbers - 234 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #42 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 325 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #55 / 104
Number of attempts: 4

50 factorials mod 97 - 47 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #10 / 18
Number of attempts: 4

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #9 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Remove hard line breaks - 67 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #12 / 32
Number of attempts: 5

Greek column realign - 48 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #14 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Winning streak - 124 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #9 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 219 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: 26
Position: #57 / 81
Number of attempts: 4

Config Sections - 38 entries

Section me!

Best score: 43
Best player score: 55
Position: #13 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

Refactoring useless Method away - 91 entries

Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement

Best score: 47
Best player score: 50
Position: #8 / 32
Number of attempts: 4

Test everything! - 162 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #12 / 52
Number of attempts: 4

Condensed Cases - 788 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: 14
Position: #131 / 242
Number of attempts: 7

increment by column in XML - 146 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #25 / 53
Number of attempts: 4

Square numbers - 99 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #9 / 40
Number of attempts: 3

Pretty format for variable declarations - 155 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #29 / 62
Number of attempts: 6

Simple Maths - 45 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 35
Position: #14 / 25
Number of attempts: 3

Happy TvvO - 407 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #3 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

C to VimDict - 46 entries

Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 46
Position: #11 / 13
Number of attempts: 2

range(10) digit rotation - 32 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #20 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1240 / 4161
Number of attempts: 6

Shift down - 193 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #37 / 67
Number of attempts: 10

learn vim in short time - 232 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #134 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

Best score: 33
Best player score: 43
Position: #15 / 25
Number of attempts: 3

vim1001 - 275 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #78 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

Subtraction - 178 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #26 / 61
Number of attempts: 6

Roman numerals - 68 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #12 / 27
Number of attempts: 6

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #490 / 1129
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #178 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Suffix sort - 254 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #24 / 65
Number of attempts: 12

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #41 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Lisp Condense - 438 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #78 / 154
Number of attempts: 5

120 Degrees - 468 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #74 / 143
Number of attempts: 5

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #9 / 268
Number of attempts: 7

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 125 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: 31
Position: #26 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor static member invocation - 198 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #33 / 63
Number of attempts: 5

Winding path - 93 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 39
Position: #8 / 40
Number of attempts: 4

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 226 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #81 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #157 / 293
Number of attempts: 8

Don't know what this is - 1978 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: 14
Position: #321 / 578
Number of attempts: 6

Two become one - 710 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #28 / 205
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #324 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #28 / 101
Number of attempts: 4

Piphilology - 131 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: 32
Position: #12 / 51
Number of attempts: 5

Mess in revision history - 1160 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #84 / 246
Number of attempts: 8

Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #60 / 101
Number of attempts: 5

Going underground.... - 339 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: 27
Position: #17 / 125
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1939 / 3666
Number of attempts: 8

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 30
Position: #367 / 692
Number of attempts: 6

Under the cupola - 45 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!)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 72
Position: #14 / 17
Number of attempts: 4

Ninjas Leaderboard - 85 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.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #6 / 39
Number of attempts: 5

Letter case trickery - 1594 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: 11
Position: #258 / 511
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: 15
Position: #441 / 1072
Number of attempts: 6

Words in parens - 12854 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1395 / 3945
Number of attempts: 2

Hole-in-one - 1012 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: 18
Position: #142 / 302
Number of attempts: 8

Coordinates placeholder - 62 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 51
Position: #35 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

fib.c cleanup - 66 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #41 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

199 Fibonacci Numbers - 39 entries

Generate 199 Fibonacci Numbers using, if you like, the function S(x,y), a vimscript to sum two big numbers in reverse order.

Best score: 51
Best player score: 67
Position: #11 / 17
Number of attempts: 7

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 77 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: 22
Position: #19 / 40
Number of attempts: 3

Transposition - 82 entries

Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 37
Position: #9 / 30
Number of attempts: 3

Sort by your own sum - 71 entries

Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #12 / 28
Number of attempts: 2

Changing URL path in CSS - 129 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)

Best score: 40
Best player score: 45
Position: #36 / 59
Number of attempts: 5

Rule 110 - 35 entries

Compute the next 5 iterations of Rule 110 with the given starting state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

Best score: 43
Best player score: 53
Position: #6 / 11
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #93 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

Presidential Sorting - 48 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!

Best score: 40
Best player score: 50
Position: #15 / 23
Number of attempts: 3

Extract text from xml - 109 entries

Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #12 / 44
Number of attempts: 3

Simple Maths 2 - 29 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #8 / 13
Number of attempts: 1

Tiny column alignment - 45 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #7 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #73 / 188
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #211 / 439
Number of attempts: 2

maximun and minimun - 58 entries

Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.

Best score: 51
Best player score: 69
Position: #17 / 24
Number of attempts: 3

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 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: 25
Position: #175 / 473
Number of attempts: 9

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 98 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #49 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #268 / 441
Number of attempts: 7

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 337 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 28
Position: #49 / 111
Number of attempts: 3

Enharmonic Equivalents - 56 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #9 / 35
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the chessboard - 78 entries

White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #16 / 30
Number of attempts: 4

Vertical Limit - 2437 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #283 / 736
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 2946 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #260 / 767
Number of attempts: 6

Switch function arguments - 2078 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #391 / 651
Number of attempts: 9

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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: 16
Position: #177 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

un-C-escape string - 56 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #41 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5031 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #836 / 1735
Number of attempts: 6

Replacing some words - 419 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #102 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #281 / 640
Number of attempts: 3

Complete the hex array data - 195 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #44 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 262 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #82 / 97
Number of attempts: 5

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #254 / 639
Number of attempts: 5

Solve the Sokoban - 164 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 29
Position: #13 / 72
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 1912 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: 13
Position: #196 / 500
Number of attempts: 6

Table Reshuffle - 371 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #35 / 134
Number of attempts: 2

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 237 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #51 / 85
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #53 / 230
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #303 / 454
Number of attempts: 6

Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #302 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

Dumb to smart - 96 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #17 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #355 / 512
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the Haiku - 275 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: 34
Position: #25 / 109
Number of attempts: 4

Compile C - 365 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #69 / 132
Number of attempts: 6

Linear congruential generator - 129 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 31
Position: #32 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 709 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: 16
Position: #149 / 249
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #81 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 654 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 58
Position: #87 / 177
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3332 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #213 / 736
Number of attempts: 7

Simple text editing with Vim - 12280 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1323 / 3579
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6555 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 34
Position: #304 / 1613
Number of attempts: 5

Contributed Challenges

Tiny column alignment - 45 entries

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

Simple Maths 2 - 29 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

If-then-else regexp - 43 entries

Rules: - golf is never following golf - vim comes first! Drawing a finite-state machine diagram could help. #regexp

range(10) digit rotation - 32 entries

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

Simple Maths - 45 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Greek column realign - 48 entries

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

Conway sequence - 23 entries

Generate the the first fifteen numbers. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence

Custom McCarthy sequence - 36 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

ASCII box - 325 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Fill visual area - 82 entries

Just have fun!

Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 33 entries

Interleave lines - 158 entries

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

Entries sort - 81 entries

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

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 33 entries

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

Reformat Cura settings - 112 entries

Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json

Maze path - 36 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.

Alsa configuration - 491 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

C Reformatting - 688 entries

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

JSON string rotation - 55 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

Flatten repo - 23 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

Palindrome numbers - 21 entries

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

TAR archive pretty print - 24 entries

Will you use isk ?

Data reformat - 271 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Levenshtein distance - 104 entries

Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript

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Played Challenges

Levenshtein distance - 104 entries

Yo To Hello - 1112 entries

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 entries

Swap values - 4543 entries

One number per line - 18616 entries

Wget failed to download redirections - 184 entries

V to the i - 4751 entries

html paragraph to table - 590 entries

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

Start coding format - 147 entries

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

Across-Down Flip - 53 entries

That hyphen - 2556 entries

comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 entries

Just the middle - 11358 entries

Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Un"finnish"ed Work - 107 entries

Todo list specification - 385 entries

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 entries

Extended Customer 2 - 47 entries

Flatten repo - 23 entries

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 161 entries

Create Leading Zeros - 238 entries

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 161 entries

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 178 entries

Add to end of each line... kinda - 323 entries

JSON string rotation - 55 entries

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

Vice versa - 7797 entries

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

Free hyphen! - 159 entries

C Reformatting - 688 entries

Vim's not included features - 210 entries

comments galore - 998 entries

Inner hyphens - 124 entries

ascii-art diamond - 35 entries

Maze path - 36 entries

Reformat Cura settings - 112 entries

Build a six - 272 entries

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 33 entries

Greek Letters - 61 entries

Separating firstname & lastname - 120 entries

Restore order to the alphabet - 188 entries

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Binary and Increment - 43 entries

Entries sort - 81 entries

Collect List - 4264 entries

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Rail fence transposition cipher - 70 entries

camel riding - 769 entries

Land of the Lost - 77 entries

swap or reverse - 115 entries

readability - 312 entries

Interleave lines - 158 entries

Logging with key - 301 entries

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 33 entries

remove all lines in first part - 190 entries

Not enough Ps - 66 entries

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 81 entries

Fix the XML - 996 entries

Line 'em up! - 392 entries

Shuffled numbers - 234 entries

ASCII box - 325 entries

50 factorials mod 97 - 47 entries

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

Remove hard line breaks - 67 entries

Greek column realign - 48 entries

Winning streak - 124 entries

Sorting database text output - 219 entries

Config Sections - 38 entries

Refactoring useless Method away - 91 entries

Test everything! - 162 entries

Condensed Cases - 788 entries

increment by column in XML - 146 entries

Square numbers - 99 entries