Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 entries
Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #564 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4554 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #405 / 1259
- Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1354 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 12
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #391 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2131 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #331 / 633
- Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #60 / 1151
- Number of attempts: 7
From argument to object - 1481 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #43 / 453
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2902 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #101 / 702
- Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2869 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #366 / 639
- Number of attempts: 4
Extract argument from function - 2337 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #167 / 750
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #456 / 1604
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2572 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #134 / 698
- Number of attempts: 5
comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #176 / 316
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #698 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 4
Make HTML List - 1050 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #68 / 273
- Number of attempts: 5
Un"finnish"ed Work - 115 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #14 / 59
- Number of attempts: 3
Todo list specification - 389 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #42 / 178
- Number of attempts: 2
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 955 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #123 / 371
- Number of attempts: 4
Missing Library and a Typo - 860 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #51 / 211
- Number of attempts: 5
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 165 entries
Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #52 / 62
- Number of attempts: 1
Add to end of each line... kinda - 329 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #80 / 173
- Number of attempts: 5
Wrap text in quotes - 351 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #88 / 121
- Number of attempts: 1
underscore_to_camelCase - 163 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #25 / 81
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #739 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 6
Pretty multi-line bash - 219 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #14 / 76
- Number of attempts: 4
Free hyphen! - 165 entries
Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #68 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 431 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #57 / 124
- Number of attempts: 3
Sorting a glossary - 127 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #49 / 80
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1017 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #192 / 421
- Number of attempts: 5
Mirrored text - 167 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #49 / 70
- Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 255 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #54 / 93
- Number of attempts: 1
Inner hyphens - 130 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #60 / 80
- Number of attempts: 2
Angular naming conventions - 307 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: 19
- Position: #59 / 117
- Number of attempts: 2
Replace and keep the case - 415 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #36 / 117
- Number of attempts: 7
Scrambled numbers - 780 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #95 / 183
- Number of attempts: 9
Align commas - 1063 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #39 / 243
- Number of attempts: 7
Hello ${world} - 300 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #14 / 95
- Number of attempts: 4
Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #90 / 137
- Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 648 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #138 / 205
- Number of attempts: 6
Put the months in order - 972 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #136 / 161
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2407 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #64 / 445
- Number of attempts: 8
Mirror Symmetry - 812 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #62 / 268
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap assigned value - 628 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #83 / 252
- Number of attempts: 5
From A to B - 575 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #24 / 157
- Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4267 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #231 / 1188
- Number of attempts: 6
VimGolfNight - 538 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #315 / 344
- Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 775 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #126 / 277
- Number of attempts: 4
readability - 315 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #124 / 150
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #59 / 442
- Number of attempts: 8
Fix the XML - 1000 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #166 / 287
- Number of attempts: 2
Line 'em up! - 396 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: #28 / 112
- Number of attempts: 5
Mute the second method of this script - 449 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #113 / 238
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting database text output - 220 entries
Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #67 / 82
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 794 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #200 / 244
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 417 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #117 / 204
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #432 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 6
learn vim in short time - 233 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #89 / 159
- Number of attempts: 2
vim1001 - 284 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #80 / 108
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #170 / 1132
- Number of attempts: 8
Count both ways - 1006 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #116 / 352
- Number of attempts: 4
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 244 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #50 / 115
- Number of attempts: 6
Lisp Condense - 449 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #155 / 157
- Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 469 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #95 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 745 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #92 / 270
- Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 1996 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #263 / 581
- Number of attempts: 4
Two become one - 713 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: 35
- Position: #160 / 208
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 874 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #177 / 436
- Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1183 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #206 / 249
- Number of attempts: 1
Split the words - 357 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 / 109
- Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #999 / 3677
- Number of attempts: 8
attr_aligner - 3454 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #434 / 695
- Number of attempts: 3
Counting in binary - 478 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #64 / 114
- Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1598 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #149 / 514
- Number of attempts: 7
quotes inside quotes - 3128 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #239 / 1073
- Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1540 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 5
Hole-in-one - 1017 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #86 / 303
- Number of attempts: 5
Define to require - 119 entries
When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.
- Best score: 62
- Best player score: 90
- Position: #33 / 49
- Number of attempts: 2
Prefixes and suffixes - 599 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #92 / 195
- Number of attempts: 2
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 404 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #80 / 190
- Number of attempts: 3
The name of the game - 654 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #214 / 359
- Number of attempts: 3
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 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: #80 / 443
- Number of attempts: 3
Stairs Indenting - 452 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #125 / 195
- Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #97 / 442
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #233 / 748
- Number of attempts: 6
replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #632 / 772
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #129 / 653
- Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #98 / 410
- Number of attempts: 3
Reverse and double space - 498 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #106 / 197
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove semicolons after expressions - 639 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #88 / 261
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #898 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 4
The meaning - 566 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #260 / 360
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1955 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #479 / 643
- Number of attempts: 2
Line Zipper - 454 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #189 / 212
- Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1345 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: 25
- Position: #246 / 333
- Number of attempts: 3
imports alignment (python) - 663 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #123 / 196
- Number of attempts: 6
Numbering a List - 1869 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #340 / 646
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #166 / 402
- Number of attempts: 3
Assignment Alignment - 842 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #40 / 217
- Number of attempts: 2
Shebangs for all - 1917 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #228 / 502
- Number of attempts: 8
A Simple One - 1009 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #436 / 648
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #326 / 455
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #327 / 404
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting paragraphs - 510 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #105 / 159
- Number of attempts: 1
Hatsuyume - 467 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #49 / 179
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #221 / 517
- Number of attempts: 4
Context insensitive completion 0 - 545 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #96 / 239
- Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #127 / 237
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #284 / 340
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat some Python - 590 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #33 / 233
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat most common surnames - 671 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #76 / 202
- Number of attempts: 8
Change the content of a string - 1502 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #285 / 567
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #348 / 542
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1436 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #96 / 397
- Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #517 / 758
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2433 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 44
- Position: #1094 / 1652
- Number of attempts: 1
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