Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 entries
Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #3578 / 7384
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4554 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #750 / 1259
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18673 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1801 / 3852
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #171 / 573
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4771 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1349 / 1887
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #353 / 843
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap the operands under comparison - 274 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #55 / 99
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2131 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #304 / 633
- Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #562 / 1151
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #455 / 839
- Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1488 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: 21
- Position: #216 / 378
- Number of attempts: 8
Every other line - 2902 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #351 / 702
- Number of attempts: 8
Copy three lines - 2869 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #335 / 639
- Number of attempts: 9
Array propagate - 332 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #50 / 117
- Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2337 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #461 / 750
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4853 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #556 / 1605
- Number of attempts: 3
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 539 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: 35
- Position: #62 / 128
- Number of attempts: 3
Number Sort - 307 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: #99 / 165
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2572 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #253 / 698
- Number of attempts: 14
comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #192 / 316
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11380 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2657 / 4174
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1812 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #384 / 585
- Number of attempts: 3
Learn some german verbs - 532 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: 32
- Position: #115 / 132
- Number of attempts: 6
Missing Library and a Typo - 860 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #81 / 211
- Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #154 / 1260
- Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 958 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: 22
- Position: #190 / 267
- Number of attempts: 6
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 841 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: #125 / 288
- Number of attempts: 2
Add to end of each line... kinda - 329 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #149 / 173
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7865 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1363 / 2114
- Number of attempts: 3
Order and join - 965 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #170 / 258
- Number of attempts: 4
comments galore - 1017 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #272 / 421
- Number of attempts: 4
Scrambled numbers - 780 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #101 / 183
- Number of attempts: 8
Align commas - 1063 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #141 / 243
- Number of attempts: 6
Python challenge - 148 entries
Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #22 / 45
- Number of attempts: 6
One to Ten - 2174 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: #44 / 664
- Number of attempts: 6
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 648 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #93 / 205
- Number of attempts: 4
Build a six - 277 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #13 / 94
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment each number - 995 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #123 / 245
- Number of attempts: 8
Delete to the end of the current line - 795 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #82 / 387
- Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 972 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #68 / 161
- Number of attempts: 10
move titles next to url, in quotes - 510 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #80 / 137
- Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2407 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #256 / 445
- Number of attempts: 11
unknown command - 166 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #39 / 86
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple format (2) - 335 entries
try again!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #36 / 70
- Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4267 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #598 / 1188
- Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #268 / 442
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2966 / 4166
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3183 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #696 / 1132
- Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 1996 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #531 / 581
- Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3454 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #245 / 695
- Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3128 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #308 / 1073
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #2972 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 5
Santa's naughty / nice list - 79 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: 57
- Position: #20 / 25
- Number of attempts: 3
Array Transposition - 178 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #33 / 54
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #169 / 748
- Number of attempts: 9
replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #281 / 772
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #308 / 653
- Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #540 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 4
Getters & Setters: Java - 206 entries
Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...
- Best score: 89
- Best player score: 119
- Position: #30 / 57
- Number of attempts: 12
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1715 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #738 / 1652
- Number of attempts: 3