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Played Challenges

Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #155 / 537
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 23
Position: #2689 / 7513
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #491 / 1293
Number of attempts: 5

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #613 / 1562
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #534 / 3904
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #186 / 594
Number of attempts: 2

Unsemantic linewrapping - 964 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #111 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4883 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1391 / 1914
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #397 / 867
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #885 / 3098
Number of attempts: 6

Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #63 / 543
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #148 / 639
Number of attempts: 14

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #226 / 1185
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #136 / 1901
Number of attempts: 9

multiple cursor alternative - 1591 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: 20
Position: #169 / 388
Number of attempts: 6

From argument to object - 1566 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: #114 / 471
Number of attempts: 4

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 773 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #79 / 182
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #248 / 712
Number of attempts: 11

Copy three lines - 2923 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #341 / 647
Number of attempts: 4

Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #232 / 772
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #594 / 1674
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #265 / 711
Number of attempts: 9

comment and uncomment code inline - 1182 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: #121 / 332
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2878 / 4255
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #232 / 596
Number of attempts: 4

For all cases. - 180 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #67 / 111
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #176 / 1279
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 1042 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: 19
Position: #126 / 281
Number of attempts: 5

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 886 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: #132 / 297
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #105 / 271
Number of attempts: 6

Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #815 / 2157
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #130 / 265
Number of attempts: 3

Paragraph breaks - 550 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #83 / 172
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 1100 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #278 / 433
Number of attempts: 1

Scrambled numbers - 830 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #50 / 187
Number of attempts: 4

Align commas - 1134 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: 13
Position: #110 / 250
Number of attempts: 7

One to Ten - 2258 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: #134 / 688
Number of attempts: 4

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 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: #112 / 214
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #173 / 260
Number of attempts: 3

Join 'em - 258 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #102 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 310 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #29 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

Remove quotes after first field - 411 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #49 / 96
Number of attempts: 7

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: #62 / 168
Number of attempts: 7

Reorder the groups - 1201 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #104 / 270
Number of attempts: 7

Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #147 / 461
Number of attempts: 15

convert yml into java pojo field - 879 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: 36
Position: #198 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Assign numbers to fields - 122 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #48 / 64
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 694 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #190 / 263
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #612 / 1200
Number of attempts: 7

camel riding - 815 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #146 / 284
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1692 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #130 / 456
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #3062 / 4224
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #391 / 1146
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1052 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #86 / 361
Number of attempts: 4

Gray area - 763 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #116 / 276
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1207 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #97 / 309
Number of attempts: 8

Don't know what this is - 2066 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: 12
Position: #229 / 594
Number of attempts: 5

Where should I put the Newline? - 908 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #400 / 449
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1233 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #95 / 258
Number of attempts: 12

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: 26
Position: #14 / 130
Number of attempts: 8

attr_aligner - 3566 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #194 / 710
Number of attempts: 13

Letter case trickery - 1686 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: 10
Position: #167 / 525
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: 15
Position: #495 / 1093
Number of attempts: 5

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: 23
Position: #22 / 72
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1749 / 3991
Number of attempts: 6

Prefixes and suffixes - 668 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #41 / 207
Number of attempts: 5

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 174 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #12 / 55
Number of attempts: 7

lamb had a little Mary - 659 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #51 / 179
Number of attempts: 6

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #244 / 457
Number of attempts: 6

ASCII-art Histogram - 337 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 43
Position: #37 / 60
Number of attempts: 7

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1162 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #324 / 459
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #180 / 778
Number of attempts: 5

replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #210 / 789
Number of attempts: 10

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #319 / 684
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1086 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #250 / 426
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 758 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: #128 / 281
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #967 / 1764
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #289 / 368
Number of attempts: 1

Line Zipper - 480 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #195 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1377 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: 18
Position: #106 / 341
Number of attempts: 5

Case preserving word replacement - 477 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: 20
Position: #81 / 186
Number of attempts: 4

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 238 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #29 / 101
Number of attempts: 4

HTML to Haml - 905 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 42
Position: #135 / 207
Number of attempts: 2

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: 43
Position: #26 / 111
Number of attempts: 7

Generate English Alphabets - 540 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #22 / 216
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #42 / 661
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2101 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: 12
Position: #160 / 532
Number of attempts: 5

A Simple One - 1088 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: #499 / 679
Number of attempts: 1

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 280 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #35 / 92
Number of attempts: 5

Reverse Simple Deletion - 871 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #351 / 465
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1416 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #251 / 542
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 532 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #140 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #212 / 356
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1799 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #336 / 655
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 40
Position: #890 / 1889
Number of attempts: 4