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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 26
Position: #3434 / 7364
Number of attempts: 3

vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #75 / 131
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1614 / 1879
Number of attempts: 1

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: 15
Position: #433 / 744
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1338 / 1585
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #603 / 695
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3352 / 4164
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 59
Position: #254 / 271
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: 44
Position: #229 / 364
Number of attempts: 2

Extended Customer 2 - 47 entries

Format the chars

Best score: 47
Best player score: 65
Position: #8 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Acute accents - 32 entries

Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #10 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #1107 / 1258
Number of attempts: 3

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: 44
Position: #46 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7803 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1158 / 2100
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #122 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

lipsum lines - 252 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 33
Position: #57 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 301 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #94 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Sudoku table - 70 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 59
Position: #15 / 31
Number of attempts: 1

Alsa configuration - 491 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #106 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

Manual SQL - 133 entries

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

Best score: 48
Best player score: 81
Position: #41 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 15
Position: #255 / 266
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 624 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #168 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #28 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #911 / 1186
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #226 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

swap or reverse - 115 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #59 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #59 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 996 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #237 / 284
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #75 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 325 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #74 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

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: #97 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

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: #64 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 407 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #190 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3130 / 4161
Number of attempts: 1

Shift down - 193 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #56 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 232 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #79 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

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: 26
Position: #86 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #1072 / 1129
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #234 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #97 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 438 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #116 / 154
Number of attempts: 2

120 Degrees - 468 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 28
Position: #125 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

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: 41
Position: #52 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #495 / 578
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #360 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 41
Position: #91 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

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: 18
Position: #90 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

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: 31
Position: #83 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3068 / 3666
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #341 / 511
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #618 / 1072
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2870 / 3946
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #217 / 302
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 591 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #151 / 192
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #199 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #129 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

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: 14
Position: #367 / 439
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #279 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

Enharmonic Equivalents - 56 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #30 / 35
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2437 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #579 / 736
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 39
Position: #170 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #534 / 768
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #396 / 652
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #334 / 403
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #222 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1174 / 1736
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #255 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #563 / 640
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1336 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #242 / 331
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #399 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #294 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 832 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #184 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

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: 19
Position: #392 / 500
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1001 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #417 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #312 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #436 / 512
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #280 / 338
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 579 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 47
Position: #157 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #454 / 558
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1363 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #323 / 383
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #428 / 736
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12286 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #3110 / 3581
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6558 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #943 / 1615
Number of attempts: 1

Gerald Tilma
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