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Played Challenges

Poorly indented Python comments - 1173 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #93 / 204
Number of attempts: 5

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #147 / 370
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4368 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #651 / 1072
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2329 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #227 / 457
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1115 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #197 / 518
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 27
Position: #4027 / 7364
Number of attempts: 6

Add text at some column - 154 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 34
Position: #49 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1076 / 1257
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #470 / 1517
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2235 / 3842
Number of attempts: 4

Right Align Part of the line - 117 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #34 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1054 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #84 / 274
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules (ver.2) - 211 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #17 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #489 / 569
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 15
Position: #1853 / 1879
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #583 / 840
Number of attempts: 1

Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #131 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #131 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

Swap the operands under comparison - 270 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #70 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #998 / 3044
Number of attempts: 4

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #324 / 516
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #577 / 630
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #906 / 1144
Number of attempts: 4

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 28
Position: #700 / 827
Number of attempts: 1

Extract wireshark capture filter - 198 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #45 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #970 / 1865
Number of attempts: 6

multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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: 21
Position: #216 / 376
Number of attempts: 4

From argument to object - 1474 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: 22
Position: #391 / 450
Number of attempts: 1

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #117 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2840 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #382 / 635
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #371 / 744
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1018 / 1585
Number of attempts: 2

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 538 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: 39
Position: #100 / 127
Number of attempts: 1

comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 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: 12
Position: #262 / 314
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2901 / 4164
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #452 / 581
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 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: 43
Position: #180 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 856 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: 16
Position: #88 / 209
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 25
Position: #1148 / 1258
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 957 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: 25
Position: #234 / 266
Number of attempts: 2

Nesting SASS - 261 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #62 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1374 / 2101
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #281 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1049 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: 19
Position: #208 / 241
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2165 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: 24
Position: #625 / 662
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 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: 16
Position: #150 / 203
Number of attempts: 4

Line under headers - 2004 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 34
Position: #349 / 496
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #208 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 248 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #108 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 791 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #316 / 385
Number of attempts: 2

change parenthesis - 278 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #120 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Remove quotes after first field - 353 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #83 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1137 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #185 / 259
Number of attempts: 3

move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #122 / 135
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: 31
Position: #142 / 223
Number of attempts: 3

From A to B - 564 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #139 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

Simple format (2) - 334 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 34
Position: #50 / 69
Number of attempts: 4

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #440 / 1186
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #146 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #364 / 440
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 788 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: 16
Position: #188 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1208 / 4161
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1019 / 1129
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #234 / 268
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 33
Position: #289 / 293
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 1978 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: 18
Position: #558 / 578
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 710 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #160 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #3389 / 3666
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 35
Position: #581 / 692
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1594 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: 14
Position: #437 / 511
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: 17
Position: #928 / 1072
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2975 / 3946
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 39
Position: #447 / 473
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2440 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #483 / 737
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #481 / 768
Number of attempts: 2

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #504 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #344 / 403
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1428 / 1736
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #535 / 640
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #340 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #445 / 512
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #203 / 338
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #466 / 558
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 38
Position: #454 / 529
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2562 / 3581
Number of attempts: 2