VimGolf - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke!

Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #2498 / 7330
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #672 / 1250
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18559 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1082 / 3830
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4717 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1647 / 1874
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #195 / 625
Number of attempts: 8

Copy three lines - 2825 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #205 / 631
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2283 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #166 / 739
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #818 / 1578
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2530 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #454 / 690
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2219 / 4152
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5514 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #657 / 1249
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 316 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: #79 / 166
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #61 / 120
Number of attempts: 2

Fun With The Diagonal - 99 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #75 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7675 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #725 / 2078
Number of attempts: 6

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #65 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 688 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #57 / 161
Number of attempts: 4

Paragraph sort - 421 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #93 / 122
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting a glossary - 118 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: #46 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #189 / 414
Number of attempts: 4

Inner hyphens - 124 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #57 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #93 / 181
Number of attempts: 8

Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #72 / 123
Number of attempts: 5

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: 20
Position: #212 / 241
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 793 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #157 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #23 / 154
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4228 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #230 / 1179
Number of attempts: 5

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #69 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1610 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #181 / 438
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 962 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #102 / 280
Number of attempts: 3

Shuffled numbers - 228 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #64 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

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: #113 / 237
Number of attempts: 4

Condensed Cases - 777 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: 15
Position: #166 / 240
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 396 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #115 / 197
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1283 / 4146
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #626 / 1124
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 987 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #247 / 348
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 1961 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #348 / 576
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #993 / 3653
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1588 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #346 / 509
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1533 / 3938
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1066 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #284 / 436
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2399 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #357 / 727
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2901 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #646 / 759
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2019 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #398 / 637
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 986 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #97 / 397
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5012 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #426 / 1728
Number of attempts: 3

remove dupes from array - 1324 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: 24
Position: #228 / 328
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1849 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #400 / 636
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1846 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: 13
Position: #192 / 486
Number of attempts: 4

The Cake is a Lie - 1266 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #222 / 506
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 996 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #103 / 335
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1425 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #387 / 542
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1273 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #325 / 510
Number of attempts: 3

Jeremiah Goyette
Twitter: @JeremiahGoyette

Software Engineer at @epicomcorp. PhD Music Theory, Eastman School of Music