Played Challenges
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: 22
- Position: #971 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 12
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #874 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1599 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #31 / 63
- Number of attempts: 4
Separate the lines - 175 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #63 / 89
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #240 / 630
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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: 25
- Position: #299 / 376
- Number of attempts: 4
From argument to object - 1474 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: 22
- Position: #381 / 450
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #335 / 700
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 17
- Position: #613 / 744
- 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: #440 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #123 / 695
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 10
- Position: #170 / 314
- Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2180 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1 / 581
- Number of attempts: 5
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #136 / 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: 15
- Position: #28 / 56
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #14 / 176
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 38 entries
sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 91
- Position: #18 / 18
- Number of attempts: 1
Text to HTML Table - 171 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #13 / 49
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 41
- Position: #67 / 364
- Number of attempts: 5
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 257 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #63 / 138
- Number of attempts: 1
Back to the roots - 52 entries
Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #18 / 36
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 856 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: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #179 / 209
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #550 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 5
Simple addition - 310 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #98 / 117
- Number of attempts: 1
Hidden Message - 77 entries
Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #22 / 29
- Number of attempts: 1
create arrows in a list - 106 entries
Add arrow at same distance
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #40 / 71
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 957 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: 18
- Position: #35 / 266
- Number of attempts: 5
Create Leading Zeros - 238 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #60 / 80
- Number of attempts: 2
42-header - 38 entries
Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #3 / 14
- Number of attempts: 7
Create a table - 325 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #67 / 104
- Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #82 / 287
- Number of attempts: 2
Combines all items - 303 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #120 / 137
- Number of attempts: 1
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 231 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.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #64 / 81
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7803 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #725 / 2100
- Number of attempts: 5
Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #42 / 75
- Number of attempts: 3
C Reformatting - 688 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 47
- Position: #79 / 161
- Number of attempts: 4
Sorting a glossary - 123 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #43 / 78
- Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 956 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #111 / 255
- Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #73 / 165
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #164 / 418
- Number of attempts: 2
Replace and keep the case - 407 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #74 / 115
- Number of attempts: 3
Change attribute to getter - 133 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #38 / 57
- Number of attempts: 2
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #86 / 182
- Number of attempts: 6
Alsa configuration - 491 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #56 / 125
- Number of attempts: 7
Align commas - 1049 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: 17
- Position: #161 / 241
- Number of attempts: 4
Manual SQL - 133 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 65
- Position: #26 / 47
- Number of attempts: 5
mp3 - Cutlist - 29 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.
- Best score: 65
- Best player score: 115
- Position: #6 / 12
- Number of attempts: 1
Hello ${world} - 299 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #53 / 94
- Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #188 / 443
- Number of attempts: 10
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #212 / 266
- Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #121 / 155
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #210 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 9
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #234 / 274
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 312 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #70 / 148
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 35
- Position: #45 / 58
- Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #192 / 440
- Number of attempts: 4
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: #29 / 65
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 43
- Position: #17 / 23
- 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: 32
- Position: #256 / 284
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 30
- Position: #91 / 110
- 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: #110 / 237
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 13
- Position: #91 / 242
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 26
- Position: #38 / 53
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 19
- Position: #50 / 62
- Number of attempts: 2
Happy TvvO - 407 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #111 / 201
- Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1280 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #160 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 24
- Position: #35 / 65
- Number of attempts: 3
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #52 / 114
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 732 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #16 / 268
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 12
- Position: #209 / 578
- Number of attempts: 10
Mess in revision history - 1161 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #203 / 247
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #954 / 3666
- Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #226 / 692
- Number of attempts: 10
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: #345 / 511
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #473 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2306 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 1
Block Fun 1 - 189 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #63 / 73
- Number of attempts: 3
abcd > a b c d - 280 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #163 / 218
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #117 / 191
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 28
- Position: #5 / 44
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #234 / 439
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #179 / 473
- Number of attempts: 6
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 165 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?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #52 / 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #303 / 441
- Number of attempts: 2
Enharmonic Equivalents - 56 entries
Transform # and b to digraphs
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #12 / 35
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2440 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #361 / 737
- Number of attempts: 7
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #393 / 768
- Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #294 / 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: 12
- Position: #231 / 403
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse and double space - 489 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #80 / 194
- Number of attempts: 4
Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #220 / 258
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #887 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 6
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #475 / 640
- Number of attempts: 4
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 215 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #65 / 96
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #24 / 639
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 12
- Position: #82 / 401
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 18
- Position: #371 / 500
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #456 / 643
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 15
- Position: #112 / 230
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #322 / 454
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #322 / 401
- Number of attempts: 2
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #236 / 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: 16
- Position: #109 / 338
- 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: 13
- Position: #69 / 249
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #161 / 198
- 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: 22
- Position: #158 / 558
- Number of attempts: 5
Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #345 / 529
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 21
- Position: #216 / 383
- Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #524 / 736
- Number of attempts: 1
Flodder-challenge - 1117 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #105 / 311
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6558 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #536 / 1615
- Number of attempts: 2
Contributed Challenges
Add Go XML to structure tags - 152 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.