Played Challenges
Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries
Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #65 / 130
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33614 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: #1632 / 7418
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4616 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #458 / 1268
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18726 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #902 / 3863
- Number of attempts: 10
Swap values inside brackets - 2493 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #18 / 578
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4802 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #592 / 1893
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 13
- Position: #102 / 850
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #12 / 101
- Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10851 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2244 / 3063
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2144 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #526 / 634
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3583 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #100 / 1161
- Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #233 / 865
- Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7904 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #567 / 1875
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 19
- Position: #62 / 380
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 18
- Position: #238 / 458
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2910 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #19 / 703
- Number of attempts: 9
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: 15
- Position: #234 / 640
- Number of attempts: 6
Extract argument from function - 2357 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #210 / 753
- Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #534 / 1624
- Number of attempts: 4
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 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: 36
- Position: #70 / 129
- Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 314 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: #73 / 166
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #187 / 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: #102 / 322
- Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1836 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #178 / 588
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 19
- Position: #141 / 213
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #135 / 1264
- Number of attempts: 9
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: 18
- Position: #68 / 270
- Number of attempts: 6
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: #117 / 291
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7904 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #396 / 2126
- Number of attempts: 5
Order and join - 983 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #55 / 259
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #23 / 670
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #71 / 391
- Number of attempts: 2
Put the months in order - 974 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #91 / 163
- Number of attempts: 3
move titles next to url, in quotes - 532 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #72 / 140
- Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2416 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #127 / 447
- Number of attempts: 3
convert yml into java pojo field - 857 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: 30
- Position: #101 / 227
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4298 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #385 / 1190
- Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #199 / 444
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15980 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1819 / 4179
- Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #241 / 1137
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 11
- Position: #100 / 585
- Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2336 / 3683
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: #297 / 1078
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12930 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #919 / 3962
- Number of attempts: 6
Array Transposition - 201 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #19 / 56
- Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #203 / 777
- Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5071 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #518 / 1748
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12787 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #548 / 3688
- Number of attempts: 3
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