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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: #1124 / 7509
Number of attempts: 15

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #193 / 1291
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #372 / 3902
Number of attempts: 18

Wget failed to download redirections - 232 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #9 / 71
Number of attempts: 3

Prime Numbers - 391 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #3 / 108
Number of attempts: 9

Separate the lines - 197 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #38 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

vim = 22 / 7 - 491 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #32 / 136
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values inside brackets - 2549 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #21 / 593
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4864 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #522 / 1912
Number of attempts: 8

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #112 / 866
Number of attempts: 3

Swap the operands under comparison - 320 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #11 / 107
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10952 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #120 / 3097
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2081 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #73 / 542
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #123 / 638
Number of attempts: 7

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #56 / 1183
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #13 / 909
Number of attempts: 6

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 864 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #228 / 449
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #666 / 1899
Number of attempts: 3

multiple cursor alternative - 1556 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: #32 / 386
Number of attempts: 7

From argument to object - 1552 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: #60 / 469
Number of attempts: 8

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #18 / 710
Number of attempts: 7

Copy three lines - 2911 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #74 / 645
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #191 / 768
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 161 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #25 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #501 / 1670
Number of attempts: 4

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 562 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: #7 / 134
Number of attempts: 7

Number Sort - 322 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: #101 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #186 / 708
Number of attempts: 9

comment and uncomment code inline - 1161 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: #70 / 330
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1004 / 4253
Number of attempts: 6

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 126 entries

Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #7 / 47
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1860 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #27 / 595
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #71 / 275
Number of attempts: 6

Learn some german verbs - 549 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: #39 / 136
Number of attempts: 3

Interweave two blocks of text - 675 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: #18 / 216
Number of attempts: 3

Un"finnish"ed Work - 127 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #17 / 63
Number of attempts: 3

Todo list specification - 409 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: #55 / 185
Number of attempts: 2

Text to HTML Table - 197 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 52
Position: #17 / 56
Number of attempts: 4

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1022 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: #1 / 391
Number of attempts: 2

Return the cow - 76 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 58
Position: #15 / 31
Number of attempts: 5

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 278 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #95 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 413 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #105 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Format java properties - 100 entries

Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #9 / 37
Number of attempts: 3

Lenny Spiral - 20 entries

Make one lenny into an infinite army of lennys.

Best score: 35
Best player score: 36
Position: #8 / 9
Number of attempts: 1

Flatten repo - 40 entries

For each git repository (<project> tag) translate name attribute to flatten directory structure. Add path attribute if missing (because checkout hierarchy must be kept). #xml

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #2 / 13
Number of attempts: 2

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 72 entries

I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #22 / 40
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 952 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: #66 / 222
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #84 / 1277
Number of attempts: 13

Simple addition - 341 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: #31 / 126
Number of attempts: 1

Hidden Message - 103 entries

Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #6 / 31
Number of attempts: 3

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 189 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #43 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 136 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #46 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 1020 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: #49 / 279
Number of attempts: 7

Create Leading Zeros - 269 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #8 / 86
Number of attempts: 5

sort python functions and methods alphabetically - 34 entries

* sort functions in the python file alphabetically * sort functions within a Class alphabetically * sort Classes alphabetically

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #4 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Create a table - 342 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 107
Number of attempts: 4

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 884 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: #94 / 296
Number of attempts: 6

Nesting SASS - 296 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #33 / 100
Number of attempts: 6

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 195 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: 35
Position: #22 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 192 entries

FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #3 / 55
Number of attempts: 5

Add to end of each line... kinda - 345 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: #88 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

Combines all items - 316 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #63 / 141
Number of attempts: 2

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 248 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: #22 / 84
Number of attempts: 4

underscore_to_camelCase - 187 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: #27 / 84
Number of attempts: 2

Fun With The Diagonal - 111 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #52 / 84
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #319 / 2153
Number of attempts: 8

Double and switch - 48 entries

Aaaanother case switcher

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #8 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

Pretty multi-line bash - 240 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #26 / 78
Number of attempts: 3

7th Birthday - 222 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: #17 / 78
Number of attempts: 5

Free hyphen! - 192 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: #16 / 95
Number of attempts: 3

C Reformatting - 709 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #11 / 165
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph sort - 456 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #30 / 126
Number of attempts: 6

Vim's not included features - 265 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #5 / 69
Number of attempts: 6

Sorting a glossary - 134 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: #56 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Sort files from hosts - 202 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #18 / 78
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 1030 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #40 / 264
Number of attempts: 7

Paragraph breaks - 534 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #29 / 170
Number of attempts: 4

Array of characters - 192 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #13 / 48
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #235 / 431
Number of attempts: 3

Mirrored text - 199 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #19 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

lipsum lines - 296 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #26 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

Inner hyphens - 146 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #8 / 87
Number of attempts: 4

Angular naming conventions - 345 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: #38 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 448 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #42 / 121
Number of attempts: 2

Change attribute to getter - 172 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #22 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 829 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #27 / 186
Number of attempts: 7

Alsa configuration - 528 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #44 / 130
Number of attempts: 5

Align commas - 1105 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: #63 / 248
Number of attempts: 8

A grid of punctuation - 145 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #26 / 63
Number of attempts: 2

Manual SQL - 178 entries

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

Best score: 48
Best player score: 49
Position: #6 / 52
Number of attempts: 5

Hello ${world} - 344 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #18 / 102
Number of attempts: 5

Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #44 / 142
Number of attempts: 1

Python challenge - 204 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: #4 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2249 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: #50 / 687
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 681 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: #21 / 213
Number of attempts: 5

Build a six - 315 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #22 / 102
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #7 / 260
Number of attempts: 5

ASCII Art - 90 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #24 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

simple format (3) - 94 entries

reverse two column values!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #4 / 26
Number of attempts: 2

snowflake fractal - 58 entries

From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #2 / 21
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 867 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #86 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 1001 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 33
Position: #58 / 168
Number of attempts: 4

Add Go XML to structure tags - 195 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #13 / 75
Number of attempts: 5

move titles next to url, in quotes - 562 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #44 / 148
Number of attempts: 5

Restore order to the alphabet - 209 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #9 / 73
Number of attempts: 4

Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #10 / 459
Number of attempts: 9

convert yml into java pojo field - 874 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: #30 / 232
Number of attempts: 7

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #77 / 270
Number of attempts: 6

unknown command - 176 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #41 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 681 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #86 / 262
Number of attempts: 4

From A to B - 605 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #41 / 161
Number of attempts: 9

Cartesian product - 274 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #6 / 101
Number of attempts: 6

Change your calendar - 421 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #3 / 89
Number of attempts: 5

Simple format (2) - 343 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #6 / 72
Number of attempts: 9

Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #335 / 1197
Number of attempts: 4

VimGolfNight - 583 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #254 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 798 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #60 / 283
Number of attempts: 3

swap or reverse - 130 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #45 / 70
Number of attempts: 2

readability - 332 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #71 / 154
Number of attempts: 2

Interleave lines - 209 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #7 / 62
Number of attempts: 5

Logging with key - 342 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #19 / 89
Number of attempts: 5

Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #92 / 455
Number of attempts: 6

remove all lines in first part - 223 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #9 / 68
Number of attempts: 5

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #47 / 291
Number of attempts: 7

Line 'em up! - 426 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: #30 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffled numbers - 254 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: 15
Position: #33 / 98
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #36 / 110
Number of attempts: 3

Mute the second method of this script - 461 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #123 / 243
Number of attempts: 2

Winning streak - 156 entries

Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #3 / 53
Number of attempts: 4

Sorting database text output - 229 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: 24
Position: #35 / 85
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 821 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: #49 / 252
Number of attempts: 4

increment by column in XML - 165 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #2 / 56
Number of attempts: 4

Pretty format for variable declarations - 184 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #22 / 67
Number of attempts: 4

Happy TvvO - 438 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #125 / 210
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #647 / 4222
Number of attempts: 8

Shift down - 223 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #19 / 70
Number of attempts: 4

learn vim in short time - 246 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #101 / 166
Number of attempts: 2

vim1001 - 315 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #2 / 111
Number of attempts: 4

Subtraction - 201 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #14 / 63
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #222 / 1145
Number of attempts: 5

Count both ways - 1037 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #43 / 359
Number of attempts: 5

Suffix sort - 287 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #25 / 68
Number of attempts: 5

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 262 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #53 / 119
Number of attempts: 3

Change name of a variable - 187 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #103 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 473 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #44 / 160
Number of attempts: 2

120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #28 / 147
Number of attempts: 6

Gray area - 757 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #105 / 274
Number of attempts: 7

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 148 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #19 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

Refactor static member invocation - 211 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #9 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 270 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #6 / 106
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1187 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #62 / 307
Number of attempts: 9

Don't know what this is - 2048 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: #105 / 592
Number of attempts: 8

Two become one - 736 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: #4 / 212
Number of attempts: 7

Where should I put the Newline? - 898 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #193 / 446
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 384 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #20 / 105
Number of attempts: 4

Piphilology - 175 entries

Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #10 / 56
Number of attempts: 8

Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #46 / 256
Number of attempts: 6

Shuffle puzzle - 361 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: #16 / 106
Number of attempts: 4

Going underground.... - 376 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: #24 / 130
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 394 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: 18
Position: #10 / 113
Number of attempts: 7

Permutations N=4 - 81 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #4 / 21
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1188 / 3712
Number of attempts: 5

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #139 / 709
Number of attempts: 8

Counting in binary - 556 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #9 / 118
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1664 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: #14 / 523
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #280 / 1091
Number of attempts: 5

Recursive Cowsay - 71 entries

Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #4 / 20
Number of attempts: 8

Top X - 230 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #4 / 72
Number of attempts: 9

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 360 entries

"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #26 / 108
Number of attempts: 3

Number an outline - 315 entries

The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 28
Position: #9 / 79
Number of attempts: 6

Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #843 / 3988
Number of attempts: 6

Pairs of numbers - 387 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: #2 / 138
Number of attempts: 3

Hole-in-one - 1040 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: #89 / 307
Number of attempts: 6

Delete unwanted lines - 441 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #164 / 235
Number of attempts: 2

Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 188 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #25 / 79
Number of attempts: 5

Word frequency alignment - 307 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #100 / 165
Number of attempts: 4

Minimalist Limerick - 532 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #27 / 176
Number of attempts: 4

Enumerate words - 272 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #5 / 94
Number of attempts: 4

Prefixes and suffixes - 664 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #17 / 206
Number of attempts: 6

abcd > a b c d - 300 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #165 / 229
Number of attempts: 4

Readable Rubyhash - 285 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: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #13 / 98
Number of attempts: 6

NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #32 / 199
Number of attempts: 3

Santa's naughty / nice list - 104 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: #3 / 28
Number of attempts: 5

Shuffle and Sort - 244 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #10 / 70
Number of attempts: 12

A simple change - 481 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #36 / 198
Number of attempts: 3

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 445 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: #87 / 198
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #226 / 366
Number of attempts: 2

lamb had a little Mary - 655 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #49 / 178
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 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: #91 / 456
Number of attempts: 8

Stairs Indenting - 483 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #17 / 200
Number of attempts: 3

Array Transposition - 216 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #10 / 59
Number of attempts: 6

Python to Ruby - 214 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #12 / 62
Number of attempts: 4

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 229 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 50
Position: #67 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 2115 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: #51 / 487
Number of attempts: 8

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1153 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #111 / 457
Number of attempts: 2

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 378 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #32 / 115
Number of attempts: 4

Recursively Palindrome - 290 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #14 / 76
Number of attempts: 15

Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #74 / 776
Number of attempts: 5

Exchanging Quotes - 877 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #8 / 233
Number of attempts: 8

replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #99 / 787
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2204 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #143 / 681
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1071 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #112 / 425
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and double space - 511 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #59 / 202
Number of attempts: 4

Remove noise from HTTP log - 742 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: #113 / 280
Number of attempts: 3

Remove semicolons after expressions - 676 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #95 / 268
Number of attempts: 2

un-C-escape string - 60 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #45 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #488 / 1761
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 581 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #270 / 366
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1043 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #26 / 198
Number of attempts: 13

Replacing some words - 445 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #26 / 152
Number of attempts: 3

Sort the cardinal numbers - 326 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #45 / 150
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2036 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #85 / 657
Number of attempts: 4

Line Zipper - 480 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #88 / 217
Number of attempts: 6

remove dupes from array - 1375 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: #71 / 340
Number of attempts: 10

Alphabetize the directory - 327 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #13 / 103
Number of attempts: 5

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 569 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: #22 / 152
Number of attempts: 3

Case preserving word replacement - 476 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: #57 / 185
Number of attempts: 3

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 179 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #2 / 70
Number of attempts: 4

Sort entries based on date - 411 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #40 / 119
Number of attempts: 3

imports alignment (python) - 719 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #44 / 201
Number of attempts: 3

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 317 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #16 / 107
Number of attempts: 7

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 420 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #26 / 168
Number of attempts: 3

HTML to Haml - 905 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #14 / 207
Number of attempts: 8

expand a list comprehension (python) - 348 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 42
Position: #14 / 111
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat long lines - 377 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #25 / 139
Number of attempts: 4

Generate English Alphabets - 524 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #5 / 214
Number of attempts: 5

Insert a Markdown link - 473 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #9 / 157
Number of attempts: 5

Numbering a List - 1944 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #25 / 659
Number of attempts: 11

The holy-grail may help - 404 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #144 / 220
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1293 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: #83 / 417
Number of attempts: 4

Assignment Alignment - 905 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #45 / 226
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2098 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: 11
Position: #47 / 531
Number of attempts: 10

A Simple One - 1079 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: #460 / 677
Number of attempts: 2

Round Round - 328 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #5 / 89
Number of attempts: 16

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 327 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 107
Position: #8 / 148
Number of attempts: 3

Table Reshuffle - 468 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #26 / 145
Number of attempts: 7

Reverse and count - 489 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #4 / 180
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 652 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #57 / 239
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 870 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #37 / 465
Number of attempts: 3

Increment, increment, increment.... - 705 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #14 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 565 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #8 / 168
Number of attempts: 11

Indentation - 561 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #8 / 182
Number of attempts: 6

Hatsuyume - 564 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #5 / 193
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1399 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #238 / 541
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Haiku - 331 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #2 / 116
Number of attempts: 6

Context insensitive completion 0 - 600 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: #101 / 254
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 454 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #15 / 146
Number of attempts: 4

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 517 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #132 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1089 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #109 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 646 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #34 / 244
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat a C golf submission - 644 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #23 / 216
Number of attempts: 5

Reverse characters in a line - 832 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #12 / 278
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat most common surnames - 822 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #17 / 236
Number of attempts: 6

Remember FizzBuzz? - 802 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #4 / 206
Number of attempts: 5

Get rid of html tags - 460 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #11 / 260
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1779 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #171 / 651
Number of attempts: 2

Deleting folded text - 420 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #3 / 129
Number of attempts: 6

Sort and add attributes - 1576 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #206 / 611
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 721 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #40 / 201
Number of attempts: 6

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1733 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #117 / 455
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 1184 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #21 / 358
Number of attempts: 5

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4025 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #133 / 857
Number of attempts: 6

Flodder-challenge - 1490 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #15 / 377
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #500 / 3892
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 32
Position: #168 / 1882
Number of attempts: 8