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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Find anomalies - 149 entries

There is one special character per line

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #15 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 4
New teacher - 998 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #72 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
months to html list items - 1025 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #203 / 279
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove line numbers - 736 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #119 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 1
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 735 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 64
  • Position: #108 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 3
Poorly indented Python comments - 1315 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #78 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 7
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 647 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #50 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 3
delete swap - 1786 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #45 / 555
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #104 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the shell script! - 2546 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #191 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 7
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1660 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #304 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wikitext headings to markdown - 987 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #61 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 12
hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #474 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #66 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 5
Inverting Lines - 1900 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #378 / 511
  • Number of attempts: 1
Data reformat - 294 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #35 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 2
xrandr outputs and dashes - 707 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #54 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1131 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #417 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1148 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #127 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33664 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: #2681 / 7429
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4635 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #632 / 1271
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6323 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #599 / 1542
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #973 / 3869
  • Number of attempts: 10
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 195 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #80 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2500 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #341 / 580
  • Number of attempts: 4
Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 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: 11
  • Position: #156 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1393 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2886 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #525 / 853
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #126 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 24
  • Position: #67 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10876 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1500 / 3069
  • Number of attempts: 7
Bad Copy Syntax - 2039 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #280 / 527
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #464 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3595 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #901 / 1166
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3853 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #695 / 871
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract wireshark capture filter - 216 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #28 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7911 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #496 / 1879
  • Number of attempts: 3
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 135 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: #28 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 2
Triangular Numbers - 104 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #25 / 29
  • Number of attempts: 3
Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #133 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 22
  • Position: #232 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 3
html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #87 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 19
  • Position: #304 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 4
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #107 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 4
Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #79 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2362 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #664 / 754
  • Number of attempts: 1
Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 74 entries

Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #13 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4999 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1045 / 1628
  • 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: 10
  • Position: #154 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #539 / 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: 10
  • Position: #205 / 322
  • Number of attempts: 4
Letterbox - 145 entries

Make a box!

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #22 / 28
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flip the bit - 129 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #67 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11473 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2888 / 4205
  • Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 533 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: 22
  • Position: #62 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 5
Todo list specification - 399 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #149 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 996 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: 40
  • Position: #38 / 381
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 261 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #110 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 1
Stairstep digits - 394 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #107 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #143 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 8
Basic renumbering - 5673 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #707 / 1267
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple addition - 326 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: #107 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 22
  • Position: #194 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 3
Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #55 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
  • Position: #185 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 2
Nesting SASS - 266 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #62 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 2
Combines all items - 313 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #125 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #69 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #167 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7922 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #810 / 2132
  • Number of attempts: 4
C Reformatting - 690 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #82 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 2
Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #71 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #152 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #68 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 5
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #120 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #71 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 5
Hello ${world} - 324 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #45 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 6
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 95 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #13 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python challenge - 172 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #28 / 46
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2220 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: 14
  • Position: #479 / 673
  • Number of attempts: 3
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 147 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #59 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat Cura settings - 132 entries

Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 75
  • Position: #19 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2047 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #277 / 505
  • Number of attempts: 1
Build a six - 294 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #73 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #135 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 15
  • Position: #61 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 6
  • Position: #317 / 391
  • Number of attempts: 1
change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #116 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 1
Label grid cells (6x6) - 53 entries

Label the cells of a grid with its coordinates. Rows are labelled top to bottom from A to F, and columns left to right from A to F. Each cell has a coordinate MN, where M is the row letter and N is the column letter.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #16 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove quotes after first field - 380 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #57 / 91
  • 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: 50
  • Position: #127 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #245 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 534 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #89 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #258 / 448
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #168 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #95 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #42 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #665 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #193 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #202 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #176 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #218 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 804 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: 18
  • Position: #210 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16007 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2309 / 4186
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #708 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #271 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #183 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
  • Position: #372 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 3
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #397 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #182 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #276 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 7
quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: 16
  • Position: #655 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12944 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2484 / 3965
  • Number of attempts: 1
Resort and deup a CSV list - 170 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #27 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rule 110 - 46 entries

Compute the next 5 iterations of Rule 110 with the given starting state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #7 / 13
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 39
  • Position: #4 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 5
If-then-else regexp - 53 entries

Rules: - golf is never following golf - vim comes first! Drawing a finite-state machine diagram could help. #regexp

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #13 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #294 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array Transposition - 201 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #36 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #320 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 3
Alphabet soup - 429 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #72 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #493 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #137 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #640 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 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: #129 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #89 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 6
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #310 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #125 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1932 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #43 / 653
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 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: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #179 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 2010 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: 18
  • Position: #383 / 517
  • Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1052 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: #503 / 666
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1354 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #457 / 529
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1059 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #207 / 345
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1588 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #382 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1473 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #224 / 572
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1554 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #238 / 420
  • Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3691 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #490 / 794
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12883 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1782 / 3713
  • Number of attempts: 2

Contributed Challenges

ASCII-art Histogram - 320 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 ;-)

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 735 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

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