Played Challenges
Rural Post - 4290 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #438 / 1052
- Number of attempts: 5
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 852 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #217 / 269
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2443 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #241 / 566
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4717 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1366 / 1874
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2820 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #571 / 834
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10744 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #518 / 3030
- Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 1966 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #268 / 506
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2113 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #459 / 625
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3502 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #203 / 1134
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3552 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #359 / 798
- Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7782 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #850 / 1853
- Number of attempts: 4
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 123 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: #21 / 43
- Number of attempts: 5
multiple cursor alternative - 1460 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: #333 / 374
- Number of attempts: 1
html paragraph to table - 587 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 58
- Position: #61 / 122
- Number of attempts: 6
Copy three lines - 2825 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #499 / 631
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2283 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #369 / 739
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1008 / 1578
- Number of attempts: 2
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 530 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: #61 / 125
- Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2530 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #474 / 690
- Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1039 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: #193 / 306
- Number of attempts: 3
Flip the bit - 118 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #61 / 69
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11318 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #3795 / 4152
- Number of attempts: 1
Un"finnish"ed Work - 105 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #49 / 55
- Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 930 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: #123 / 361
- Number of attempts: 2
For all cases. - 134 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #66 / 96
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 254 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #107 / 136
- Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 838 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: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #144 / 206
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5514 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #923 / 1249
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple addition - 301 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: #100 / 112
- Number of attempts: 1
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 160 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #67 / 76
- Number of attempts: 2
create arrows in a list - 98 entries
Add arrow at same distance
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #64 / 67
- Number of attempts: 2
Nesting SASS - 257 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #59 / 91
- Number of attempts: 2
Add to end of each line... kinda - 316 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 / 166
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7675 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1353 / 2078
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 913 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #121 / 248
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 982 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #393 / 414
- Number of attempts: 1
Change attribute to getter - 127 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #38 / 53
- Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #108 / 135
- Number of attempts: 4
Python challenge - 146 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: #19 / 43
- Number of attempts: 5
One to Ten - 2128 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: #573 / 652
- Number of attempts: 2
Around the clock - 187 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: #38 / 73
- Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 243 entries
This shouldn't be too tough
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #23 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 729 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #298 / 359
- Number of attempts: 1
change parenthesis - 276 entries
change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #34 / 155
- Number of attempts: 2
Reorder the groups - 1128 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #172 / 257
- Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 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: #204 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 593 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #203 / 242
- Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #215 / 237
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 777 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: #215 / 240
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2282 / 4146
- Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 225 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #109 / 155
- Number of attempts: 2
Suffix sort - 244 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: #59 / 64
- Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 169 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 / 132
- Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 713 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #177 / 265
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 857 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #389 / 429
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2444 / 3653
- Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1588 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: #354 / 509
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: #1022 / 1066
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12821 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3481 / 3938
- Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate words - 242 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #75 / 87
- Number of attempts: 4
Readable Rubyhash - 243 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: #42 / 91
- Number of attempts: 5
Santa's naughty / nice list - 77 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: #19 / 23
- Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 398 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: #150 / 186
- Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 643 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #248 / 353
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1550 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: #404 / 435
- Number of attempts: 2
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1066 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #308 / 436
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2019 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #408 / 637
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 986 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #239 / 397
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5012 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #949 / 1728
- Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 543 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #288 / 350
- Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 339 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #149 / 204
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1846 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: #225 / 486
- Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 978 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 / 636
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 824 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #343 / 450
- Number of attempts: 2
Hatsuyume - 442 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #29 / 173
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1266 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #375 / 506
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the Haiku - 272 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: #77 / 108
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 493 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: #214 / 230
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 996 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #200 / 335
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat a C golf submission - 547 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: #128 / 198
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1425 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #455 / 542
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1273 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #220 / 510
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6336 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #989 / 1561
- Number of attempts: 1