Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33613 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: #1813 / 7417
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values - 4616 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #437 / 1268
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6308 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1002 / 1537
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18725 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #959 / 3862
- Number of attempts: 13
V to the i - 4802 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #514 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2877 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #497 / 850
- Number of attempts: 4
Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #174 / 258
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10851 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #820 / 3063
- Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 2037 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #417 / 525
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2144 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #583 / 634
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3583 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #628 / 1161
- Number of attempts: 7
Com(m)a Trouble - 3815 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #387 / 864
- Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7904 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #1005 / 1875
- Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 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: 27
- Position: #320 / 380
- Number of attempts: 5
html paragraph to table - 606 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #72 / 126
- Number of attempts: 2
From argument to object - 1508 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: #56 / 458
- Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2872 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #319 / 640
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #471 / 701
- Number of attempts: 4
comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 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: #67 / 322
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11448 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #858 / 4196
- Number of attempts: 9
Team names - 1836 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #16 / 588
- Number of attempts: 5
Todo list specification - 399 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #136 / 179
- Number of attempts: 1
Text to HTML Table - 180 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #16 / 53
- Number of attempts: 3
Stairstep digits - 394 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #101 / 145
- Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 887 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: #58 / 213
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple addition - 326 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: #34 / 122
- Number of attempts: 4
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #33 / 79
- Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 984 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: 21
- Position: #155 / 270
- Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 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: #92 / 291
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #22 / 140
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7904 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1309 / 2126
- Number of attempts: 2
Free hyphen! - 169 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: 9
- Position: #21 / 89
- Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 1045 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #237 / 424
- Number of attempts: 1
Change attribute to getter - 140 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #25 / 59
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1095 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: 21
- Position: #225 / 246
- Number of attempts: 2
Hello ${world} - 324 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #79 / 96
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2212 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: #182 / 670
- 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: #16 / 77
- Number of attempts: 5
Join 'em - 251 entries
This shouldn't be too tough
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #66 / 151
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 812 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #178 / 391
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4298 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #331 / 1190
- Number of attempts: 8
Sorting database text output - 223 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: 30
- Position: #76 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
increment by column in XML - 152 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #40 / 55
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 426 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #140 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15980 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2199 / 4179
- Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #215 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 7
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #122 / 354
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2022 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: #267 / 585
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1181 / 3683
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12930 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #823 / 3962
- Number of attempts: 5
paste indent correction - JS - 112 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #53 / 59
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #551 / 754
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5071 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #485 / 1748
- Number of attempts: 5
Compile C - 420 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 119
- Position: #139 / 140
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12784 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #499 / 3688
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6962 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #1356 / 1701
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 27 entries
Convert from one format to another