Played Challenges
Satisfy the go linter - 2360 entries
You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #287 / 465
- Number of attempts: 2
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 946 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #228 / 302
- Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 671 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #200 / 218
- Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 757 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #89 / 168
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #477 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 18
Swap values - 4554 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #897 / 1259
- Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #455 / 1530
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #38 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 6
Quote modules - 1066 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #113 / 278
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #232 / 573
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #379 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 5
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 307 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #50 / 70
- Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 866 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #123 / 256
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10831 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1411 / 3055
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2009 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #161 / 518
- Number of attempts: 9
Split line with dots - 2131 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #225 / 633
- Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #561 / 1151
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #348 / 839
- Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7849 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #276 / 1870
- Number of attempts: 10
Triangular Numbers - 97 entries
Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #23 / 28
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1488 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #43 / 378
- Number of attempts: 5
From argument to object - 1481 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #74 / 453
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2902 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #493 / 702
- Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2869 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #84 / 639
- Number of attempts: 7
Array propagate - 332 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #74 / 117
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2337 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #195 / 750
- Number of attempts: 3
Start coding format - 149 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #58 / 71
- Number of attempts: 6
Search and Replace 0 - 4853 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #854 / 1605
- Number of attempts: 4
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 539 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #48 / 128
- Number of attempts: 3
Number Sort - 307 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #39 / 165
- Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 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: #85 / 316
- Number of attempts: 3
Flip the bit - 126 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #63 / 73
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #641 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 5
Team names - 1812 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #82 / 585
- Number of attempts: 5
Make HTML List - 1050 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #152 / 273
- Number of attempts: 2
Todo list specification - 389 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: #60 / 178
- Number of attempts: 5
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 955 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: 41
- Position: #71 / 371
- Number of attempts: 4
For all cases. - 145 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #54 / 102
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 260 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #71 / 140
- Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 860 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #114 / 211
- Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #454 / 1260
- Number of attempts: 13
Adam's challenge - 958 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #114 / 267
- Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 841 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #181 / 288
- Number of attempts: 2
Nesting SASS - 262 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #35 / 94
- Number of attempts: 3
Fun With The Diagonal - 104 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #57 / 80
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #729 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 4
Free hyphen! - 165 entries
Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #76 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 431 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #13 / 124
- Number of attempts: 5
Paragraph breaks - 509 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #150 / 166
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1017 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #181 / 421
- Number of attempts: 4
Mirrored text - 167 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #20 / 70
- Number of attempts: 7
Scrambled numbers - 780 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #8 / 183
- Number of attempts: 9
Align commas - 1063 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #116 / 243
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #79 / 137
- Number of attempts: 2
One to Ten - 2174 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #418 / 664
- Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 795 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #221 / 387
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove quotes after first field - 367 entries
Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #60 / 90
- Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 510 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #91 / 137
- Number of attempts: 6
Array transposition - 2407 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #99 / 445
- Number of attempts: 11
Assign numbers to fields - 107 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #22 / 61
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 812 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #78 / 268
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap assigned value - 628 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #88 / 252
- Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 575 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #19 / 157
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4267 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #217 / 1188
- Number of attempts: 5
camel riding - 775 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #141 / 277
- Number of attempts: 4
Logging with key - 302 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #21 / 87
- Number of attempts: 8
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #82 / 442
- Number of attempts: 11
Mute the second method of this script - 449 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #125 / 238
- Number of attempts: 1
Test everything! - 163 entries
... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #12 / 53
- Number of attempts: 12
Condensed Cases - 794 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: 12
- Position: #51 / 244
- Number of attempts: 8
Happy TvvO - 417 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #129 / 204
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #405 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 8
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 62 entries
Implementing the methods of a Java Interface
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #11 / 26
- Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #347 / 1132
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1006 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #44 / 352
- Number of attempts: 4
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 235 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #28 / 102
- Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1136 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #212 / 298
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1996 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: 12
- Position: #213 / 581
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #963 / 3677
- Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3454 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #209 / 695
- Number of attempts: 11
Letter case trickery - 1598 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #20 / 514
- Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: 17
- Position: #939 / 1073
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #680 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 9
Hole-in-one - 1017 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: 19
- Position: #185 / 303
- Number of attempts: 3
Word frequency alignment - 278 entries
You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #102 / 159
- Number of attempts: 6
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 78 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: #21 / 41
- Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 444 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #119 / 190
- Number of attempts: 5
The name of the game - 654 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #231 / 359
- Number of attempts: 2
Alphabet soup - 425 entries
Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #102 / 106
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #480 / 748
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #146 / 653
- Number of attempts: 7
Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #119 / 272
- Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #630 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 5
Make it more readable - 1955 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #305 / 643
- Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1869 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #459 / 646
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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: 13
- Position: #170 / 402
- Number of attempts: 9
A Simple One - 1009 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: #468 / 648
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 372 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #61 / 135
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #343 / 404
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 545 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #144 / 239
- Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #135 / 237
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #345 / 758
- Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #418 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 5
Contributed Challenges
Alphabet soup - 425 entries
Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 539 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 307 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
Add string initializers to an enum - 866 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
xrandr outputs and dashes - 671 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!