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Played Challenges

vimtutor, but you can cheat - 22 entries

It's time to revisit vimtutor, but as an experienced Vim user! Your goal is to change the file to appear as if you had gone through the tutorial, but you do NOT need to actually complete the tutorial as written or do anything that doesn't result in changes to the file. You may use whatever you have in your Vim toolbelt that's allowed under VimGolf rules. The whole tutorial is too large to submit, so only the relevant lesson headers and associated practice lines are presented in this challenge. You will have to reference the tutor for the original instructions if you need them: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vim/vim/4466ad6baa22485abb1147aca3340cced4778a66/runtime/tutor/tutor

Best score: 7
Best player score: 168
Position: #6 / 11
Number of attempts: 1

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: 23
Position: #2652 / 7384
Number of attempts: 3

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: #469 / 1530
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1586 / 3852
Number of attempts: 1

TAR archive pretty print - 25 entries

Will you use isk ?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #10 / 12
Number of attempts: 3

Separate the lines - 176 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #67 / 90
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1155 / 1887
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #283 / 843
Number of attempts: 1

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: #127 / 256
Number of attempts: 2

Swap the operands under comparison - 274 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #31 / 99
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #812 / 3055
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2131 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #263 / 633
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #510 / 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: 15
Position: #396 / 839
Number of attempts: 1

My cafe needs a new menu - 25 entries

Help! My cafe needs a new menu and I've only got this plain-text file from the kitchen. In order to get it printed, I need to transform it into a markdown file with; headings for each type of item, prices on each menu item, dietary options and a key down the bottom.

Best score: 126
Best player score: 157
Position: #6 / 7
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 705 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #218 / 398
Number of attempts: 1

Extract wireshark capture filter - 203 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #14 / 69
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7849 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #814 / 1870
Number of attempts: 1

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 129 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #22 / 46
Number of attempts: 1

Cool or not? - 802 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #139 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #220 / 378
Number of attempts: 2

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: #3 / 453
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #370 / 702
Number of attempts: 2

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: 19
Position: #359 / 639
Number of attempts: 4

Array propagate - 332 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #54 / 117
Number of attempts: 1

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: #38 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #437 / 1604
Number of attempts: 3

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: 36
Position: #69 / 128
Number of attempts: 2

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: #4 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #455 / 698
Number of attempts: 3

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: 11
Position: #214 / 316
Number of attempts: 1

Letterbox - 93 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 50
Position: #15 / 27
Number of attempts: 1

The D a n k Side of the Moon - 43 entries

You're making a vaporwave cover of The Dark Side of the Moon. So for the tracklisting, you want to: 1. Change the track names to v a p o r c a s e 2. Double the track lengths (since you're slowing them down). Well... let's just double the minutes.

Best score: 40
Best player score: 51
Position: #10 / 16
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2160 / 4174
Number of attempts: 2

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 99 entries

Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 37
Position: #19 / 43
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1812 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #327 / 585
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 48
Position: #164 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

Learn some german verbs - 532 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #79 / 132
Number of attempts: 1

Un"finnish"ed Work - 115 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #21 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Subnetting - 112 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 49
Position: #32 / 37
Number of attempts: 3

Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 39 entries

sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #1 / 19
Number of attempts: 2

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: 42
Position: #122 / 371
Number of attempts: 1

Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 21 entries

Convert from one format to another

Best score: 56
Best player score: 68
Position: #4 / 11
Number of attempts: 2

For all cases. - 145 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #25 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 259 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #2 / 139
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 383 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #65 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Format java properties - 73 entries

Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".

Best score: 27
Best player score: 34
Position: #20 / 34
Number of attempts: 3

Back to the roots - 54 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #10 / 37
Number of attempts: 1

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: 15
Position: #2 / 211
Number of attempts: 3

Simple addition - 312 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #81 / 118
Number of attempts: 1

Hidden Message - 78 entries

Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #11 / 29
Number of attempts: 2

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 163 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #11 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 106 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #3 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #135 / 267
Number of attempts: 2

42-header - 39 entries

Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #11 / 15
Number of attempts: 2

Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #60 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

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: 13
Position: #1 / 288
Number of attempts: 2

Nesting SASS - 262 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 17
Position: #70 / 94
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 329 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: 12
Position: #87 / 173
Number of attempts: 1

Combines all items - 307 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #90 / 139
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap text in quotes - 351 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #75 / 121
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: #40 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1228 / 2114
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty multi-line bash - 219 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #36 / 76
Number of attempts: 2

7th Birthday - 187 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #36 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Convert pasted text into Markdown - 23 entries

I often need to copy/paste text into Markdown files. The challenge here is to wrap the lines in a way that prefers breaks after periods, commas, or other logical demarcations. There should be no spaces at the beginning of a line.

Best score: 46
Best player score: 90
Position: #9 / 13
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph sort - 431 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #50 / 124
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting a glossary - 127 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: #42 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 965 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #172 / 258
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph breaks - 509 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #92 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Array of characters - 157 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #22 / 46
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1017 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #167 / 421
Number of attempts: 3

Mirrored text - 167 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #46 / 70
Number of attempts: 2

Inner hyphens - 130 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #51 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

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: 19
Position: #190 / 243
Number of attempts: 1

A grid of punctuation - 127 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #5 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #5 / 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: 12
Position: #11 / 664
Number of attempts: 3

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 648 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #80 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2023 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #221 / 498
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII Art - 85 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #35 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 34 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: 55
Position: #9 / 14
Number of attempts: 1

Around the clock - 191 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #42 / 76
Number of attempts: 2

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #51 / 151
Number of attempts: 2

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: #17 / 387
Number of attempts: 2

Remove quotes after first field - 367 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #48 / 90
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 972 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #43 / 161
Number of attempts: 6

Array transposition - 2407 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #214 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

convert yml into java pojo field - 837 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #17 / 225
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 812 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 11
Position: #124 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

unknown command - 166 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #26 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 35
Position: #53 / 70
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #203 / 1188
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 538 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #237 / 344
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 775 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #190 / 277
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the XML - 1000 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #165 / 287
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 417 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #122 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1642 / 4166
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #621 / 1132
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1006 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #261 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 449 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #83 / 157
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 745 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #178 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

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: 14
Position: #359 / 581
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 874 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #377 / 436
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #70 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3454 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 33
Position: #526 / 695
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1545 / 3950
Number of attempts: 2

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: 21
Position: #221 / 303
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 519 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 36
Position: #97 / 173
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 599 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #63 / 195
Number of attempts: 5

Santa's naughty / nice list - 79 entries

Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 44
Position: #12 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 404 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: 11
Position: #145 / 190
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 654 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #211 / 359
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 596 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #79 / 164
Number of attempts: 1

Array Transposition - 178 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 35
Position: #30 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 2008 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 / 476
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #288 / 442
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #271 / 772
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 2085 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #282 / 653
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #94 / 410
Number of attempts: 2

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: #103 / 272
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 566 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #258 / 360
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1955 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #295 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

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: #493 / 648
Number of attempts: 1

Dumb to smart - 97 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #22 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #369 / 517
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #160 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 574 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #64 / 203
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 732 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: #72 / 257
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1502 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #157 / 567
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #2211 / 3626
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 36
Position: #465 / 1652
Number of attempts: 4

Contributed Challenges

Rule 110 - 36 entries

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

Label grid cells (6x6) - 52 entries

Label the cells of a grid with its coordinates. Rows are labelled top to bottom from A to F, and columns left to right from A to F. Each cell has a coordinate MN, where M is the row letter and N is the column letter.

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

Text to HTML Table - 174 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Flip the bit - 126 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

vimtutor, but you can cheat - 22 entries

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I should really put something here ...other than my PGP key: 407932FF9C909217 . Also in the fediverse as @tpenguinltg@fe.disroot.org .

Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

Played Challenges

vimtutor, but you can cheat - 22 entries

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 entries

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries

One number per line - 18673 entries

TAR archive pretty print - 25 entries

Separate the lines - 176 entries

V to the i - 4771 entries

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries

Add string initializers to an enum - 866 entries

Swap the operands under comparison - 274 entries

Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Split line with dots - 2131 entries

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries

Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries

My cafe needs a new menu - 25 entries

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 705 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter - 203 entries

Box it - 7849 entries

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 129 entries

Cool or not? - 802 entries

multiple cursor alternative - 1488 entries

From argument to object - 1481 entries

Every other line - 2902 entries

Copy three lines - 2869 entries

Array propagate - 332 entries

Start coding format - 149 entries

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 539 entries

Number Sort - 307 entries

That hyphen - 2572 entries

comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 entries

Letterbox - 93 entries

The D a n k Side of the Moon - 43 entries

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 99 entries

Team names - 1812 entries

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Learn some german verbs - 532 entries

Un"finnish"ed Work - 115 entries

Subnetting - 112 entries

Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 39 entries

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 955 entries

Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 21 entries

For all cases. - 145 entries

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 259 entries

Stairstep digits - 383 entries

Format java properties - 73 entries

Back to the roots - 54 entries

Missing Library and a Typo - 860 entries

Simple addition - 312 entries

Hidden Message - 78 entries

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 163 entries

create arrows in a list - 106 entries

Adam's challenge - 958 entries

42-header - 39 entries

Create a table - 332 entries

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 841 entries

Nesting SASS - 262 entries

Add to end of each line... kinda - 329 entries

Combines all items - 307 entries

Wrap text in quotes - 351 entries

Fun With The Diagonal - 104 entries

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Pretty multi-line bash - 219 entries

7th Birthday - 187 entries

Convert pasted text into Markdown - 23 entries

Paragraph sort - 431 entries

Sorting a glossary - 127 entries

Order and join - 965 entries

Paragraph breaks - 509 entries

Array of characters - 157 entries

comments galore - 1017 entries

Mirrored text - 167 entries

Inner hyphens - 130 entries

Align commas - 1063 entries

A grid of punctuation - 127 entries

Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries

tPenguinLTG
Twitter: @tpenguinltg