Played Challenges
Rural Post - 4563 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #456 / 1113
- Number of attempts: 5
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1008 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #247 / 317
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2515 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #251 / 584
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4824 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1378 / 1899
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2900 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #590 / 859
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10889 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #518 / 3076
- Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 2050 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #278 / 533
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2154 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #463 / 635
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #203 / 1172
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3890 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #394 / 882
- Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7939 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #868 / 1885
- Number of attempts: 4
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 139 entries
In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #25 / 48
- Number of attempts: 5
multiple cursor alternative - 1542 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: 30
- Position: #343 / 384
- Number of attempts: 1
html paragraph to table - 606 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 58
- Position: #64 / 126
- Number of attempts: 6
Copy three lines - 2875 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #505 / 641
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2369 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #377 / 756
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1044 / 1631
- Number of attempts: 2
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 542 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: #64 / 130
- Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #481 / 701
- Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 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: #208 / 328
- Number of attempts: 3
Flip the bit - 132 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #67 / 75
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11497 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #3846 / 4215
- Number of attempts: 1
Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #51 / 60
- Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1006 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: 42
- Position: #131 / 383
- Number of attempts: 2
For all cases. - 168 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #66 / 108
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 266 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #108 / 144
- Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 913 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: 20
- Position: #153 / 218
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #941 / 1270
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple addition - 332 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #108 / 124
- Number of attempts: 1
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 176 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #71 / 80
- Number of attempts: 2
create arrows in a list - 128 entries
Add arrow at same distance
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #71 / 77
- Number of attempts: 2
Nesting SASS - 278 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #60 / 98
- Number of attempts: 2
Add to end of each line... kinda - 338 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: #92 / 175
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7967 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1385 / 2144
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 985 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #126 / 260
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1069 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #407 / 428
- Number of attempts: 1
Change attribute to getter - 157 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #45 / 63
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 299 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #111 / 141
- Number of attempts: 4
Python challenge - 178 entries
Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #23 / 47
- Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2234 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: 22
- Position: #599 / 679
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
- Position: #41 / 77
- Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 251 entries
This shouldn't be too tough
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #30 / 151
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 847 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #323 / 406
- Number of attempts: 1
change parenthesis - 296 entries
change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #34 / 161
- Number of attempts: 2
Reorder the groups - 1182 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #179 / 265
- Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 859 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: 39
- Position: #209 / 228
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 664 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #215 / 258
- Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #217 / 239
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 807 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: 19
- Position: #220 / 248
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2307 / 4194
- Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 240 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #109 / 161
- Number of attempts: 2
Suffix sort - 270 entries
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #62 / 67
- Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 179 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: #111 / 137
- Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 747 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #182 / 271
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #395 / 438
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2467 / 3695
- Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1644 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: 12
- Position: #359 / 520
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: 22
- Position: #1037 / 1085
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12969 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3509 / 3970
- Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate words - 257 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #78 / 92
- Number of attempts: 4
Readable Rubyhash - 274 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: 27
- Position: #45 / 97
- Number of attempts: 5
Santa's naughty / nice list - 90 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: #22 / 26
- Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 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: 11
- Position: #153 / 193
- Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 678 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #248 / 363
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1616 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #414 / 447
- Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1126 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #316 / 447
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2152 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #428 / 667
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #247 / 420
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5085 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #958 / 1750
- Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 575 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #288 / 363
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 389 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #149 / 215
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 2039 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: 14
- Position: #239 / 521
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1064 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: #495 / 670
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #346 / 461
- Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 548 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #39 / 189
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #389 / 534
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the Haiku - 320 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: 45
- Position: #82 / 115
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 590 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: 10
- Position: #232 / 249
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #207 / 348
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat a C golf submission - 614 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: 34
- Position: #137 / 210
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1646 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #504 / 607
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1499 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #220 / 581
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7229 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #1069 / 1778
- Number of attempts: 1