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Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 2346 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #40 / 663
Number of attempts: 2

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 839 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #56 / 256
Number of attempts: 2

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 261 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #3 / 61
Number of attempts: 4

Fill in the chess board - 905 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #1 / 175
Number of attempts: 6

Learn to ask for :help - 531 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #7 / 121
Number of attempts: 5

Plotting some variables in python - 1558 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #21 / 333
Number of attempts: 5

Transpose a python matrix - 837 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #2 / 133
Number of attempts: 5

Create a diamond comment - 305 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #2 / 71
Number of attempts: 5

Lowercase first characters - 467 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #1 / 175
Number of attempts: 3

Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 90 entries

Change the naming logic of numbers to end up with less lines.

Best score: 74
Best player score: 77
Position: #4 / 36
Number of attempts: 3

Migrated to Postgres! - 311 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #2 / 121
Number of attempts: 3

Increment number for every 10 lines - 219 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #9 / 61
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1832 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #74 / 497
Number of attempts: 4

CSV to MD format - 388 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #6 / 91
Number of attempts: 3

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 307 entries

I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #10 / 94
Number of attempts: 6

Python dataclasses - 1104 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #26 / 277
Number of attempts: 2

Count to 100 in word form - 106 entries

Write all the numbers from 1 to 100, using their word forms rather than the digit form. Most of the parts you will need are included in the input file. Use hyphens when appropriate.

Best score: 53
Best player score: 65
Position: #8 / 26
Number of attempts: 4

RUST match with enum for Coin - 176 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 111
Position: #33 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 305 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #53 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

Staircase - 137 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #4 / 31
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 292 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #19 / 80
Number of attempts: 3

Put a cross in the square - 203 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #4 / 84
Number of attempts: 3

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #13 / 370
Number of attempts: 4

HS Final exam vimgolf - 864 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #59 / 227
Number of attempts: 5

Extend shell script - 103 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #4 / 42
Number of attempts: 7

Easy modification of ssh config - 335 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #7 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 297 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #10 / 77
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4362 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #230 / 1071
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2329 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: 20
Position: #28 / 457
Number of attempts: 5

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 926 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #12 / 295
Number of attempts: 3

Data reformat - 271 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 38
Best player score: 45
Position: #29 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 652 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: 15
Position: #170 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

Capitalize the Names - 361 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #37 / 91
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1114 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #260 / 517
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1098 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #8 / 225
Number of attempts: 6

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: #1777 / 7363
Number of attempts: 7

Get mail address from outlook format - 621 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #66 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #275 / 1257
Number of attempts: 7

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #99 / 1517
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #43 / 3842
Number of attempts: 13

Right Align Part of the line - 117 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #5 / 38
Number of attempts: 4

Quote modules - 1053 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #138 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

add line and index - 88 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

Best score: 44
Best player score: 44
Position: #2 / 27
Number of attempts: 8

vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #35 / 131
Number of attempts: 6

Palindrome numbers - 21 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #6 / 14
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #36 / 569
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #376 / 1879
Number of attempts: 5

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #154 / 840
Number of attempts: 6

Swap the operands under comparison - 270 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #21 / 98
Number of attempts: 6

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #61 / 3044
Number of attempts: 11

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #12 / 516
Number of attempts: 6

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #36 / 630
Number of attempts: 7

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #199 / 1144
Number of attempts: 8

Com(m)a Trouble - 3668 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #36 / 826
Number of attempts: 9

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 15
Position: #371 / 386
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7827 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #90 / 1864
Number of attempts: 3

citizen_hacks_2019_part5 - 17 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 48
Best player score: 57
Position: #6 / 8
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_part3 - 15 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 59
Best player score: 59
Position: #2 / 5
Number of attempts: 4

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 125 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: 10
Position: #10 / 44
Number of attempts: 4

Triangular Numbers - 90 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #14 / 26
Number of attempts: 4

Hash staircase - 48 entries

Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #7 / 22
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 793 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #34 / 226
Number of attempts: 3

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: 19
Position: #72 / 376
Number of attempts: 7

html paragraph to table - 590 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #8 / 123
Number of attempts: 13

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: 17
Position: #115 / 450
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #30 / 174
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #40 / 700
Number of attempts: 11

Copy three lines - 2840 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #126 / 635
Number of attempts: 7

Array propagate - 319 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #19 / 115
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: 13
Position: #233 / 744
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #597 / 1585
Number of attempts: 2

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 538 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: 30
Position: #13 / 127
Number of attempts: 7

Number Sort - 303 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: #113 / 162
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #125 / 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: 9
Position: #122 / 314
Number of attempts: 3

Letterbox - 91 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 35
Position: #4 / 25
Number of attempts: 6

Flip the bit - 119 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #26 / 70
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #717 / 4164
Number of attempts: 10

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #231 / 581
Number of attempts: 6

Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #11 / 271
Number of attempts: 7

Learn some german verbs - 531 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: 21
Position: #42 / 131
Number of attempts: 4

Interweave two blocks of text - 631 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #11 / 211
Number of attempts: 6

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: #75 / 176
Number of attempts: 2

Text to HTML Table - 171 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 52
Position: #19 / 49
Number of attempts: 7

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: 39
Position: #4 / 364
Number of attempts: 5

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 257 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #111 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 376 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #41 / 141
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #86 / 209
Number of attempts: 6

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: #19 / 24
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #175 / 1258
Number of attempts: 4

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: 12
Position: #45 / 117
Number of attempts: 5

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: #55 / 77
Number of attempts: 3

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: #83 / 266
Number of attempts: 8

Create a table - 325 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #38 / 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: #133 / 287
Number of attempts: 2

Nesting SASS - 261 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #64 / 93
Number of attempts: 7

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: 12
Position: #94 / 170
Number of attempts: 1

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: 9
Position: #74 / 137
Number of attempts: 3

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: 15
Position: #25 / 81
Number of attempts: 6

Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #42 / 120
Number of attempts: 5

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #17 / 261
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 7797 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #249 / 2099
Number of attempts: 10

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #9 / 75
Number of attempts: 4

7th Birthday - 186 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: 19
Position: #19 / 73
Number of attempts: 8

C Reformatting - 688 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #21 / 161
Number of attempts: 12

Paragraph sort - 430 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #36 / 123
Number of attempts: 3

Sort files from hosts - 179 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #19 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 956 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #65 / 255
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph breaks - 505 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #38 / 165
Number of attempts: 6

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #279 / 418
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 252 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #16 / 91
Number of attempts: 2

Angular naming conventions - 295 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: 18
Position: #43 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 407 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #48 / 115
Number of attempts: 5

Scrambled numbers - 779 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #41 / 182
Number of attempts: 10

Alsa configuration - 491 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #49 / 125
Number of attempts: 4

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: 11
Position: #29 / 241
Number of attempts: 6

Manual SQL - 133 entries

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

Best score: 48
Best player score: 66
Position: #29 / 47
Number of attempts: 3

Hello ${world} - 299 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #29 / 94
Number of attempts: 5

Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #57 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Python challenge - 147 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #7 / 44
Number of attempts: 8

One to Ten - 2165 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: #119 / 662
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 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: 14
Position: #34 / 203
Number of attempts: 5

Line under headers - 2004 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #188 / 496
Number of attempts: 4

Build a six - 272 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #45 / 92
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #26 / 242
Number of attempts: 8

ASCII Art - 82 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #21 / 52
Number of attempts: 3

Around the clock - 188 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: 13
Position: #18 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 59 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 3
Best player score: 3
Position: #30 / 47
Number of attempts: 2

Join 'em - 248 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #79 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 784 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #140 / 384
Number of attempts: 1

Song Transcription Oops - 234 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #42 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 278 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #20 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Label grid cells (6x6) - 45 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.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 33
Position: #7 / 17
Number of attempts: 4

Remove quotes after first field - 353 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #9 / 87
Number of attempts: 6

Put the months in order - 932 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #27 / 158
Number of attempts: 10

Reorder the groups - 1137 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #24 / 259
Number of attempts: 4

move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #3 / 135
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #13 / 443
Number of attempts: 7

convert yml into java pojo field - 829 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: #66 / 223
Number of attempts: 4

Assign numbers to fields - 105 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: #18 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #85 / 266
Number of attempts: 5

unknown command - 158 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #51 / 83
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 624 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #94 / 249
Number of attempts: 3

From A to B - 564 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #52 / 155
Number of attempts: 4

Cartesian product - 221 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #7 / 92
Number of attempts: 6

Simple format (2) - 334 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #11 / 69
Number of attempts: 9

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #428 / 1186
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #270 / 343
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #69 / 274
Number of attempts: 4

Land of the Lost - 77 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

Best score: 26
Best player score: 41
Position: #17 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

swap or reverse - 115 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #49 / 66
Number of attempts: 4

readability - 312 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #76 / 148
Number of attempts: 6

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #18 / 86
Number of attempts: 10

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #96 / 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: 32
Position: #3 / 13
Number of attempts: 7

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: 31
Position: #13 / 23
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the XML - 996 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #59 / 284
Number of attempts: 7

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: #34 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 325 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #38 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

50 factorials mod 97 - 47 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #5 / 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: #137 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #2 / 15
Number of attempts: 7

Conway sequence - 23 entries

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

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #16 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

Config Sections - 38 entries

Section me!

Best score: 43
Best player score: 103
Position: #18 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #59 / 242
Number of attempts: 4

Square numbers - 99 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #16 / 40
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: 12
Position: #141 / 201
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #870 / 4161
Number of attempts: 14

learn vim in short time - 232 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #88 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #164 / 1129
Number of attempts: 9

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #52 / 351
Number of attempts: 8

Lisp Condense - 438 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #52 / 154
Number of attempts: 4

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #119 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #70 / 293
Number of attempts: 6

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: 11
Position: #116 / 578
Number of attempts: 7

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: 25
Position: #7 / 205
Number of attempts: 9

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #174 / 431
Number of attempts: 4

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #24 / 101
Number of attempts: 7

Mess in revision history - 1160 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #60 / 246
Number of attempts: 7

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: 13
Position: #19 / 101
Number of attempts: 6

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: #23 / 125
Number of attempts: 4

Split the words - 356 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 40
Position: #82 / 108
Number of attempts: 4

Permutations N=4 - 60 entries

Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !

Best score: 25
Best player score: 45
Position: #14 / 18
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1390 / 3666
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #154 / 692
Number of attempts: 10

Counting in binary - 477 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #13 / 113
Number of attempts: 9

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: 9
Position: #28 / 511
Number of attempts: 4

Untangle my tail, please! - 57 entries

You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #6 / 31
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #321 / 1072
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12854 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #988 / 3945
Number of attempts: 10

Pairs of numbers - 360 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #3 / 133
Number of attempts: 3

Draw the Go board - 140 entries

which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))

Best score: 50
Best player score: 56
Position: #10 / 48
Number of attempts: 10

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: 16
Position: #91 / 302
Number of attempts: 6

Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #157 / 225
Number of attempts: 2

LaTeX to XML Math Delimiters - 40 entries

Vim is amazing when used to edit MediaWiki text, but typing "<math> . . . </math>" can be tiresome and frustrating if formulas are used often. LaTeX delimiters are so concise and even come in two flavors: "$ . . . $" for inline math and "\[ . . . \]" for centered formulas. The goal is to perform the following conversions: "$ . . . $" becomes "<math>. . .</math>" "\[ . . . \]" becomes "<center><math>. . .</math></center>"

Best score: 63
Best player score: 75
Position: #2 / 18
Number of attempts: 4

Minimalist Limerick - 516 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #31 / 171
Number of attempts: 5

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: 62
Position: #6 / 17
Number of attempts: 2

Circle in a square - 140 entries

Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 50
Position: #31 / 52
Number of attempts: 3

Prefixes and suffixes - 591 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #19 / 192
Number of attempts: 7

Resort and deup a CSV list - 142 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 44
Position: #9 / 39
Number of attempts: 3

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #43 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

Santa's naughty / nice list - 78 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: 39
Position: #5 / 24
Number of attempts: 5

A simple change - 442 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #42 / 189
Number of attempts: 3

If-then-else regexp - 43 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 56
Position: #11 / 11
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #252 / 356
Number of attempts: 4

lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #21 / 163
Number of attempts: 10

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: 8
Position: #103 / 439
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 448 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #19 / 193
Number of attempts: 4

Array Transposition - 177 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #3 / 53
Number of attempts: 8

Python to Ruby - 196 entries

Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 37
Position: #39 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

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: 20
Position: #62 / 473
Number of attempts: 11

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: 20
Position: #3 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #127 / 441
Number of attempts: 3

Inconsistent real estate paste - 184 entries

Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #8 / 55
Number of attempts: 10

Alphabet soup - 419 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #4 / 103
Number of attempts: 6

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: 51
Position: #28 / 30
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2437 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #47 / 736
Number of attempts: 9

Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #11 / 225
Number of attempts: 7

replacing each line of a block selection - 2946 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #114 / 767
Number of attempts: 6

Switch function arguments - 2078 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #168 / 651
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #123 / 403
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and double space - 489 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #63 / 194
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #132 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #107 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5031 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #561 / 1735
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #293 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #9 / 185
Number of attempts: 15

Replacing some words - 419 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #47 / 148
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #98 / 640
Number of attempts: 5

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: 17
Position: #80 / 331
Number of attempts: 9

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 507 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #24 / 148
Number of attempts: 5

Case preserving word replacement - 453 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #64 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

Sort entries based on date - 363 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 22
Position: #103 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 661 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #41 / 194
Number of attempts: 5

HTML to Haml - 842 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #42 / 202
Number of attempts: 6

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #46 / 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: 12
Position: #97 / 401
Number of attempts: 3