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Played Challenges

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 389 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: 51
Best player score: 64
Position: #62 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Poorly indented Python comments - 866 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #52 / 168
Number of attempts: 7

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 459 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: #40 / 109
Number of attempts: 3

delete swap - 1095 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #45 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 926 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: #80 / 208
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the shell script! - 1728 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #138 / 418
Number of attempts: 7

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1348 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #252 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

Wikitext headings to markdown - 781 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #47 / 172
Number of attempts: 12

hello-world-vimgolf - 1986 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #379 / 565
Number of attempts: 1

Fill in the chess board - 737 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: #52 / 155
Number of attempts: 5

Inverting Lines - 1562 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #307 / 423
Number of attempts: 1

Data reformat - 251 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 38
Best player score: 50
Position: #30 / 58
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 624 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 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1081 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #393 / 497
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1054 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: #119 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33136 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: #2647 / 7308
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #620 / 1247
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #575 / 1493
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18497 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #956 / 3815
Number of attempts: 10

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 185 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #75 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2442 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #331 / 565
Number of attempts: 4

Unsemantic linewrapping - 861 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: #147 / 218
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4651 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1375 / 1864
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2793 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #505 / 827
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #120 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

Swap the operands under comparison - 266 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #64 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1485 / 3023
Number of attempts: 7

Bad Copy Syntax - 1952 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #268 / 502
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #461 / 625
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #869 / 1128
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3511 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 24
Position: #630 / 789
Number of attempts: 2

Extract wireshark capture filter - 193 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 27
Position: #24 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7756 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #491 / 1847
Number of attempts: 3

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 121 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 / 42
Number of attempts: 2

Triangular Numbers - 88 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #21 / 25
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 767 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #126 / 220
Number of attempts: 4

multiple cursor alternative - 1453 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: #226 / 372
Number of attempts: 3

html paragraph to table - 587 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 66
Position: #84 / 122
Number of attempts: 3

From argument to object - 1441 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: #291 / 441
Number of attempts: 4

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 719 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #100 / 170
Number of attempts: 4

Array propagate - 318 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #76 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2269 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #650 / 737
Number of attempts: 1

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 57 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 34
Position: #10 / 16
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4753 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1008 / 1575
Number of attempts: 2

Number Sort - 299 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: #147 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #532 / 689
Number of attempts: 4

comment and uncomment code inline - 1037 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: #194 / 305
Number of attempts: 4

Letterbox - 88 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 56
Position: #19 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Flip the bit - 115 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #60 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2875 / 4144
Number of attempts: 2

Learn some german verbs - 527 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: #60 / 129
Number of attempts: 5

Todo list specification - 373 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: #144 / 170
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: 40
Position: #34 / 361
Number of attempts: 4

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 247 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #108 / 132
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 366 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #106 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

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: 19
Position: #138 / 206
Number of attempts: 8

Basic renumbering - 5489 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #689 / 1245
Number of attempts: 2

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: #101 / 112
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 928 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: #187 / 261
Number of attempts: 3

Create a table - 309 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #53 / 100
Number of attempts: 3

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 825 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: #180 / 281
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: #61 / 91
Number of attempts: 2

Combines all items - 292 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #120 / 132
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap text in quotes - 348 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #67 / 119
Number of attempts: 3

ninja substitution - 1336 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #157 / 255
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7643 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #793 / 2072
Number of attempts: 4

C Reformatting - 687 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 48
Position: #80 / 160
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph sort - 421 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #69 / 122
Number of attempts: 3

Paragraph breaks - 497 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #148 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

Replace and keep the case - 405 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 28
Position: #64 / 114
Number of attempts: 5

Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #117 / 181
Number of attempts: 2

Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #69 / 123
Number of attempts: 5

Hello ${world} - 298 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #43 / 93
Number of attempts: 6

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 82 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #13 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Python challenge - 142 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: #24 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2123 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: #460 / 650
Number of attempts: 3

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 129 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #51 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat Cura settings - 108 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: #15 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 1941 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 30
Position: #264 / 479
Number of attempts: 1

Build a six - 267 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #68 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 959 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #130 / 238
Number of attempts: 3

Around the clock - 186 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: #56 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 723 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #299 / 355
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 267 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #108 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Label grid cells (6x6) - 34 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: #12 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

Remove quotes after first field - 332 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #50 / 83
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 922 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: #121 / 156
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1120 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 30
Position: #236 / 255
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 497 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #85 / 131
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2321 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #248 / 434
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 787 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #163 / 264
Number of attempts: 2

From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #92 / 154
Number of attempts: 2

Simple format (2) - 321 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #39 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #654 / 1176
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 760 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #188 / 271
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #198 / 436
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 962 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #170 / 280
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 444 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #216 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 775 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: #204 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2283 / 4136
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3149 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #699 / 1121
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 985 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #266 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 712 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #178 / 264
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1959 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: #366 / 574
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 853 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #391 / 427
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1157 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #179 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3403 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #268 / 686
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 3088 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: #643 / 1060
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2462 / 3932
Number of attempts: 1

Resort and deup a CSV list - 135 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: #21 / 37
Number of attempts: 3

Rule 110 - 35 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: #5 / 11
Number of attempts: 2

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: 39
Position: #4 / 23
Number of attempts: 5

If-then-else regexp - 37 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: #8 / 9
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1534 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: #285 / 432
Number of attempts: 3

Array Transposition - 169 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 45
Position: #31 / 51
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1053 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #312 / 431
Number of attempts: 3

Alphabet soup - 402 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 38
Position: #66 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #473 / 724
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 801 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #133 / 221
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #624 / 756
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 670 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 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 952 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #85 / 183
Number of attempts: 6

Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #302 / 636
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 838 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 41
Position: #123 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #43 / 634
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1202 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: #173 / 394
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 1823 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: #365 / 482
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 973 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 / 633
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1260 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #440 / 505
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 996 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #202 / 335
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1416 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #346 / 540
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1250 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #224 / 505
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1220 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #207 / 358
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3107 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #424 / 691
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 11897 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1730 / 3482
Number of attempts: 2

Contributed Challenges

ASCII-art Histogram - 300 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 - 389 entries

Ivo Blöchliger
Twitter: @aigledesalpes

Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, Paragliding, Diving, Android, Linux, Ruby, Photography, Mycology, UND MEHR...

Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

Played Challenges

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 389 entries

Poorly indented Python comments - 866 entries

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 459 entries

delete swap - 1095 entries

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 926 entries

Fix the shell script! - 1728 entries

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1348 entries

Wikitext headings to markdown - 781 entries

hello-world-vimgolf - 1986 entries

Fill in the chess board - 737 entries

Inverting Lines - 1562 entries

Data reformat - 251 entries

xrandr outputs and dashes - 624 entries

Yo To Hello - 1081 entries

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1054 entries

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33136 entries

Swap values - 4500 entries

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries

One number per line - 18497 entries

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 185 entries

Swap values inside brackets - 2442 entries

Unsemantic linewrapping - 861 entries

V to the i - 4651 entries

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2793 entries

Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

Swap the operands under comparison - 266 entries

Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Bad Copy Syntax - 1952 entries

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

Com(m)a Trouble - 3511 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter - 193 entries

Box it - 7756 entries

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 121 entries

Triangular Numbers - 88 entries

Cool or not? - 767 entries

multiple cursor alternative - 1453 entries

html paragraph to table - 587 entries

From argument to object - 1441 entries

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 719 entries

Array propagate - 318 entries

Extract argument from function - 2269 entries

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 57 entries

Search and Replace 0 - 4753 entries

Number Sort - 299 entries

That hyphen - 2522 entries

comment and uncomment code inline - 1037 entries

Letterbox - 88 entries

Flip the bit - 115 entries

Just the middle - 11289 entries

Learn some german verbs - 527 entries

Todo list specification - 373 entries

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 930 entries

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 247 entries

Stairstep digits - 366 entries

Missing Library and a Typo - 838 entries

Basic renumbering - 5489 entries

Simple addition - 301 entries

Adam's challenge - 928 entries

Create a table - 309 entries

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 825 entries

Nesting SASS - 257 entries

Combines all items - 292 entries

Wrap text in quotes - 348 entries

ninja substitution - 1336 entries

Vice versa - 7643 entries

C Reformatting - 687 entries

Paragraph sort - 421 entries

Paragraph breaks - 497 entries

Replace and keep the case - 405 entries

Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Alsa configuration - 485 entries

Hello ${world} - 298 entries

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Python challenge - 142 entries

One to Ten - 2123 entries

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