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Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 2513 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #40 / 717
Number of attempts: 2

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 900 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #62 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 290 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #3 / 66
Number of attempts: 4

Fill in the chess board - 959 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 / 185
Number of attempts: 6

Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #8 / 130
Number of attempts: 5

Plotting some variables in python - 1673 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 / 350
Number of attempts: 5

Transpose a python matrix - 873 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #2 / 138
Number of attempts: 5

Create a diamond comment - 337 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #2 / 75
Number of attempts: 5

Lowercase first characters - 490 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 / 184
Number of attempts: 3

Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 107 entries

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

Best score: 74
Best player score: 77
Position: #6 / 39
Number of attempts: 3

Migrated to Postgres! - 338 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #2 / 133
Number of attempts: 3

Increment number for every 10 lines - 231 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: #11 / 65
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1932 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #74 / 518
Number of attempts: 4

CSV to MD format - 429 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #6 / 96
Number of attempts: 3

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 323 entries

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

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #10 / 100
Number of attempts: 6

Python dataclasses - 1229 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #26 / 308
Number of attempts: 2

Count to 100 in word form - 148 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: #12 / 31
Number of attempts: 4

RUST match with enum for Coin - 186 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 111
Position: #36 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 340 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #53 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

Staircase - 152 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: #6 / 35
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 330 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: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #20 / 90
Number of attempts: 3

Put a cross in the square - 235 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #4 / 92
Number of attempts: 3

swap number pairs - 2146 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #13 / 390
Number of attempts: 4

HS Final exam vimgolf - 913 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: #63 / 241
Number of attempts: 5

Extend shell script - 138 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #4 / 48
Number of attempts: 7

Easy modification of ssh config - 382 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #7 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #10 / 82
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4572 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #244 / 1116
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2468 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 / 491
Number of attempts: 5

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1030 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #12 / 325
Number of attempts: 3

Data reformat - 304 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 36
Best player score: 45
Position: #33 / 66
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 725 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: #181 / 226
Number of attempts: 1

Capitalize the Names - 412 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 / 98
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1152 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #261 / 534
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 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 / 233
Number of attempts: 6

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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 / 7474
Number of attempts: 7

Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #66 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #275 / 1282
Number of attempts: 7

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #99 / 1555
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #43 / 3889
Number of attempts: 13

Right Align Part of the line - 133 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 / 42
Number of attempts: 4

Quote modules - 1095 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #143 / 286
Number of attempts: 1

add line and index - 100 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

Best score: 44
Best player score: 44
Position: #2 / 29
Number of attempts: 8

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #35 / 135
Number of attempts: 6

Palindrome numbers - 30 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 / 17
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #37 / 587
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4830 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #376 / 1903
Number of attempts: 5

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #157 / 863
Number of attempts: 6

Swap the operands under comparison - 313 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #21 / 105
Number of attempts: 6

Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #61 / 3085
Number of attempts: 11

Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #12 / 536
Number of attempts: 6

Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #36 / 636
Number of attempts: 7

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #199 / 1177
Number of attempts: 8

Com(m)a Trouble - 3941 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #36 / 892
Number of attempts: 9

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 846 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 15
Position: #420 / 437
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #90 / 1891
Number of attempts: 3

citizen_hacks_2019_part5 - 32 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 48
Best player score: 57
Position: #9 / 11
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_part3 - 25 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 57
Best player score: 59
Position: #5 / 8
Number of attempts: 4

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 143 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 / 50
Number of attempts: 4

Triangular Numbers - 104 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #14 / 29
Number of attempts: 4

Hash staircase - 56 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #7 / 25
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 842 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #34 / 233
Number of attempts: 3

multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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 / 385
Number of attempts: 7

html paragraph to table - 612 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #8 / 128
Number of attempts: 13

From argument to object - 1536 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 / 466
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 751 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #30 / 179
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #40 / 707
Number of attempts: 11

Copy three lines - 2882 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 / 642
Number of attempts: 7

Array propagate - 343 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #19 / 121
Number of attempts: 5

Extract argument from function - 2376 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #233 / 759
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #597 / 1637
Number of attempts: 2

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 549 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 / 132
Number of attempts: 7

Number Sort - 319 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 / 170
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #125 / 704
Number of attempts: 5

comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 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 / 328
Number of attempts: 3

Letterbox - 145 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 35
Position: #4 / 28
Number of attempts: 6

Flip the bit - 137 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #26 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #717 / 4230
Number of attempts: 10

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #231 / 592
Number of attempts: 6

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #11 / 274
Number of attempts: 7

Learn some german verbs - 541 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 / 134
Number of attempts: 4

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 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 / 215
Number of attempts: 6

Todo list specification - 405 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 / 183
Number of attempts: 2

Text to HTML Table - 185 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 52
Position: #19 / 55
Number of attempts: 7

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1007 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 / 384
Number of attempts: 5

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 268 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #112 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 407 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #41 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 943 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: 16
Position: #92 / 221
Number of attempts: 6

Acute accents - 33 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 / 25
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #175 / 1273
Number of attempts: 4

Simple addition - 332 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 / 124
Number of attempts: 5

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 176 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #56 / 80
Number of attempts: 3

Adam's challenge - 1009 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 / 276
Number of attempts: 8

Create a table - 333 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #38 / 106
Number of attempts: 2

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 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 / 294
Number of attempts: 2

Nesting SASS - 287 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #65 / 99
Number of attempts: 7

Add to end of each line... kinda - 339 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 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

Combines all items - 313 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 / 140
Number of attempts: 3

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 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 / 83
Number of attempts: 6

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #42 / 122
Number of attempts: 5

ninja substitution - 1427 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #17 / 269
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #249 / 2146
Number of attempts: 10

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #9 / 77
Number of attempts: 4

7th Birthday - 210 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 / 76
Number of attempts: 8

C Reformatting - 692 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #21 / 164
Number of attempts: 12

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #36 / 125
Number of attempts: 3

Sort files from hosts - 195 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #19 / 77
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 992 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #65 / 261
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph breaks - 527 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #38 / 168
Number of attempts: 6

comments galore - 1073 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #279 / 429
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 278 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #16 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Angular naming conventions - 326 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 / 119
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #48 / 118
Number of attempts: 5

Scrambled numbers - 814 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #41 / 185
Number of attempts: 10

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #49 / 128
Number of attempts: 4

Align commas - 1097 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 / 247
Number of attempts: 6

Manual SQL - 160 entries

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

Best score: 48
Best player score: 66
Position: #32 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

Hello ${world} - 334 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #29 / 99
Number of attempts: 5

Generate a list of numbers - 299 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #57 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Python challenge - 180 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 / 48
Number of attempts: 8

One to Ten - 2241 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 / 682
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 672 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 / 210
Number of attempts: 5

Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #192 / 510
Number of attempts: 4

Build a six - 307 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #45 / 100
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 1043 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #26 / 255
Number of attempts: 8

ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #21 / 54
Number of attempts: 3

Around the clock - 199 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 / 77
Number of attempts: 3

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 66 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 3
Best player score: 3
Position: #30 / 52
Number of attempts: 2

Join 'em - 252 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #83 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 855 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 / 411
Number of attempts: 1

Song Transcription Oops - 244 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 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 299 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #20 / 162
Number of attempts: 1

Label grid cells (6x6) - 53 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: #9 / 20
Number of attempts: 4

Remove quotes after first field - 386 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #9 / 93
Number of attempts: 6

Put the months in order - 979 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: #30 / 165
Number of attempts: 10

Reorder the groups - 1185 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #24 / 266
Number of attempts: 4

move titles next to url, in quotes - 551 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #3 / 146
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2436 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #13 / 452
Number of attempts: 7

convert yml into java pojo field - 867 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 / 230
Number of attempts: 4

Assign numbers to fields - 116 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 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #85 / 269
Number of attempts: 5

unknown command - 169 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #51 / 89
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 671 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #94 / 259
Number of attempts: 3

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #52 / 159
Number of attempts: 4

Cartesian product - 266 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #7 / 99
Number of attempts: 6

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #11 / 70
Number of attempts: 9

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #428 / 1194
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #270 / 352
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #69 / 281
Number of attempts: 4

Land of the Lost - 81 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

Best score: 25
Best player score: 41
Position: #18 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #49 / 69
Number of attempts: 4

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #76 / 152
Number of attempts: 6

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #18 / 88
Number of attempts: 10

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #96 / 446
Number of attempts: 6

Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 45 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 / 15
Number of attempts: 7

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 82 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: #14 / 24
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #59 / 290
Number of attempts: 7

Line 'em up! - 421 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 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 354 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #38 / 109
Number of attempts: 2

50 factorials mod 97 - 58 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #5 / 20
Number of attempts: 4

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #138 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Custom McCarthy sequence - 44 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 / 17
Number of attempts: 7

Conway sequence - 26 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 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Config Sections - 53 entries

Section me!

Best score: 43
Best player score: 103
Position: #20 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 807 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 / 248
Number of attempts: 4

Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #18 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #141 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #870 / 4202
Number of attempts: 14

learn vim in short time - 242 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #88 / 162
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #164 / 1140
Number of attempts: 9

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #52 / 354
Number of attempts: 8

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #52 / 158
Number of attempts: 4

Gray area - 749 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #120 / 272
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #70 / 301
Number of attempts: 6

Don't know what this is - 2025 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 / 587
Number of attempts: 7

Two become one - 719 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 / 210
Number of attempts: 9

Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #174 / 438
Number of attempts: 4

Vim tetris - 371 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #24 / 104
Number of attempts: 7

Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #60 / 254
Number of attempts: 7

Shuffle puzzle - 346 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 / 104
Number of attempts: 6

Going underground.... - 357 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: #26 / 129
Number of attempts: 4

Split the words - 372 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: #85 / 112
Number of attempts: 4

Permutations N=4 - 68 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 45
Position: #16 / 20
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1390 / 3700
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #154 / 706
Number of attempts: 10

Counting in binary - 526 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #13 / 117
Number of attempts: 9

Letter case trickery - 1644 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 / 520
Number of attempts: 4

Untangle my tail, please! - 60 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 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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 / 1086
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #999 / 3977
Number of attempts: 10

Pairs of numbers - 364 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 / 137
Number of attempts: 3

Draw the Go board - 149 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: #11 / 51
Number of attempts: 10

Hole-in-one - 1024 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: #92 / 305
Number of attempts: 6

Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #157 / 234
Number of attempts: 2

LaTeX to XML Math Delimiters - 48 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: #3 / 20
Number of attempts: 4

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #32 / 174
Number of attempts: 5

199 Fibonacci Numbers - 41 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: #7 / 18
Number of attempts: 2

Circle in a square - 152 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: #32 / 54
Number of attempts: 3

Prefixes and suffixes - 638 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #19 / 203
Number of attempts: 7

Resort and deup a CSV list - 170 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 / 44
Number of attempts: 3

NATO phonetic alphabet - 538 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #43 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

Santa's naughty / nice list - 91 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 / 27
Number of attempts: 5

A simple change - 476 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #42 / 196
Number of attempts: 3

If-then-else regexp - 53 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: #14 / 14
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #252 / 363
Number of attempts: 4

lamb had a little Mary - 639 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #21 / 176
Number of attempts: 10

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1620 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 / 450
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 479 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #19 / 199
Number of attempts: 4

Array Transposition - 202 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #3 / 57
Number of attempts: 8

Python to Ruby - 204 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 37
Position: #40 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 2067 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 / 480
Number of attempts: 11

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 166 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 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #127 / 450
Number of attempts: 3

Inconsistent real estate paste - 217 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #8 / 59
Number of attempts: 10

Alphabet soup - 434 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #4 / 109
Number of attempts: 6

Flip the chessboard - 95 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: #30 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2596 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #47 / 767
Number of attempts: 9

Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #11 / 231
Number of attempts: 7

replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #114 / 780
Number of attempts: 6

Switch function arguments - 2182 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #168 / 674
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #123 / 421
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #63 / 199
Number of attempts: 4

Remove noise from HTTP log - 729 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 / 276
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 663 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #107 / 264
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #561 / 1754
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #293 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1011 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #9 / 194
Number of attempts: 15

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #48 / 151
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #98 / 652
Number of attempts: 5

remove dupes from array - 1360 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 / 337
Number of attempts: 9

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 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 / 150
Number of attempts: 5

Case preserving word replacement - 456 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 / 181
Number of attempts: 2

Sort entries based on date - 405 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 22
Position: #107 / 118
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #41 / 198
Number of attempts: 5

HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #43 / 205
Number of attempts: 6

Numbering a List - 1940 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #46 / 656
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1272 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 / 412
Number of attempts: 3