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Played Challenges

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: #10 / 61
Number of attempts: 5

simple replacements - 1662 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #13 / 371
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1837 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #301 / 498
Number of attempts: 1

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 320 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #27 / 95
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: 85
Position: #2 / 50
Number of attempts: 10

Modernise code - 1334 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #17 / 308
Number of attempts: 3

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: 26
Position: #10 / 31
Number of attempts: 2

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: 24
Position: #28 / 80
Number of attempts: 8

Put a cross in the square - 203 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #44 / 84
Number of attempts: 2

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #119 / 370
Number of attempts: 5

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: #52 / 227
Number of attempts: 3

Easy modification of ssh config - 335 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #43 / 104
Number of attempts: 3

ssh config skills - 249 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 41
Position: #3 / 63
Number of attempts: 6

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 281 entries

Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #11 / 53
Number of attempts: 10

Rural Post - 4368 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #363 / 1072
Number of attempts: 4

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: 21
Position: #179 / 457
Number of attempts: 9

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 930 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #140 / 296
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 668 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #94 / 292
Number of attempts: 1

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: 13
Position: #156 / 213
Number of attempts: 2

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 747 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #64 / 166
Number of attempts: 5

Yo To Hello - 1115 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #26 / 518
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: 22
Position: #61 / 225
Number of attempts: 11

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: #1621 / 7364
Number of attempts: 9

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 877 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #90 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #113 / 196
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #415 / 1257
Number of attempts: 2

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: 11
Position: #664 / 1517
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #648 / 3842
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1054 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #71 / 274
Number of attempts: 9

Aliases for cd - 849 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #26 / 150
Number of attempts: 12

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #167 / 569
Number of attempts: 4

Unsemantic linewrapping - 890 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #143 / 224
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1206 / 1879
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #473 / 840
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 302 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #28 / 68
Number of attempts: 5

Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #92 / 254
Number of attempts: 4

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #49 / 244
Number of attempts: 12

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1429 / 3044
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #205 / 516
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #235 / 630
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #535 / 1144
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #315 / 827
Number of attempts: 5

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #330 / 1865
Number of attempts: 8

Cool or not? - 793 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #62 / 226
Number of attempts: 5

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #88 / 174
Number of attempts: 10

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #259 / 700
Number of attempts: 6

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: #169 / 635
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #660 / 1585
Number of attempts: 3

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: #16 / 127
Number of attempts: 4

Number Sort - 305 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: #118 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

Flip the bit - 120 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #29 / 71
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2327 / 4164
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #205 / 581
Number of attempts: 4

Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #27 / 271
Number of attempts: 6

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: #46 / 131
Number of attempts: 10

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 257 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #117 / 138
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: #95 / 209
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #297 / 1258
Number of attempts: 10

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: #145 / 287
Number of attempts: 2

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: #7 / 81
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #754 / 2101
Number of attempts: 5

Double and switch - 37 entries

Aaaanother case switcher

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #15 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 688 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #47 / 161
Number of attempts: 7

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: #37 / 123
Number of attempts: 13

Order and join - 956 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #96 / 255
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #286 / 418
Number of attempts: 3

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: #88 / 241
Number of attempts: 10

Hello ${world} - 299 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #45 / 94
Number of attempts: 13

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: 13
Position: #386 / 662
Number of attempts: 5

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 137 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #61 / 73
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2004 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #8 / 496
Number of attempts: 9

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #176 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 791 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #44 / 385
Number of attempts: 2

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: #79 / 259
Number of attempts: 6

move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #23 / 135
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #36 / 443
Number of attempts: 18

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #501 / 1186
Number of attempts: 8

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #131 / 440
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1213 / 4161
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #352 / 1129
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #72 / 293
Number of attempts: 13

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2440 / 3667
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #189 / 692
Number of attempts: 13

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: #30 / 511
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1851 / 3946
Number of attempts: 2

Chinese Multiplication Table - 77 entries

Print a Chinese multiplication table in Vim. In China, every kid is asked to memorize this table. And thanks to the mono-syllabism of Chinese characters, it is not that hard. Printing the multiplication table is also a good exercise for programming beginners. For-loop, escaped characters, etc... There should be some special ways to print it in Vim.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #2 / 24
Number of attempts: 20

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: #114 / 439
Number of attempts: 11

ASCII-art Histogram - 310 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #16 / 55
Number of attempts: 5

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: #67 / 473
Number of attempts: 13

Alphabet soup - 419 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #40 / 103
Number of attempts: 7

calculations - 262 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 39
Position: #24 / 64
Number of attempts: 12

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #89 / 738
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #174 / 652
Number of attempts: 6

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #988 / 1736
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #189 / 640
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #54 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1912 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: 12
Position: #153 / 500
Number of attempts: 4

Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #356 / 401
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 365 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #17 / 132
Number of attempts: 6

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1823 / 3581
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #166 / 1616
Number of attempts: 10