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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: 22
  • Position: #1908 / 7384
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #289 / 1259
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #550 / 3852
  • Number of attempts: 8
Wget failed to download redirections - 185 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #20 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 4
Prime Numbers - 345 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #4 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 15
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 194 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #28 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #402 / 573
  • Number of attempts: 1
Unsemantic linewrapping - 901 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: 9
  • Position: #35 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4771 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #677 / 1887
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #188 / 843
  • Number of attempts: 4
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 307 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #9 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 866 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #108 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 2
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1203 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: 19
  • Position: #8 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap the operands under comparison - 274 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #20 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #196 / 3055
  • Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 2009 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #110 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2131 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #151 / 633
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #314 / 1151
  • Number of attempts: 2
Word Blender - 147 entries

The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #3 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 10
Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #62 / 839
  • Number of attempts: 4
My cafe needs a new menu - 25 entries

Help! My cafe needs a new menu and I've only got this plain-text file from the kitchen. In order to get it printed, I need to transform it into a markdown file with; headings for each type of item, prices on each menu item, dietary options and a key down the bottom.

  • Best score: 126
  • Best player score: 126
  • Position: #1 / 7
  • Number of attempts: 15
Extract wireshark capture filter - 203 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #22 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7849 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #189 / 1870
  • Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 802 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #48 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1488 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: 19
  • Position: #74 / 378
  • Number of attempts: 7
From argument to object - 1481 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: #123 / 453
  • Number of attempts: 4
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 747 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #36 / 177
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #44 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2869 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #138 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 6
Extract argument from function - 2337 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #239 / 750
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 4853 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #616 / 1605
  • Number of attempts: 1
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 539 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: 30
  • Position: #15 / 128
  • Number of attempts: 5
Number Sort - 307 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: 9
  • Position: #110 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #215 / 698
  • Number of attempts: 5
comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 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: #127 / 316
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1285 / 4174
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1812 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #243 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 1
Stairstep digits - 383 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #109 / 143
  • Number of attempts: 2
Back to the roots - 54 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #26 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 860 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: 16
  • Position: #91 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #193 / 1260
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hidden Message - 78 entries

Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #9 / 29
  • Number of attempts: 10
Adam's challenge - 958 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: 18
  • Position: #87 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 841 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: #135 / 288
  • Number of attempts: 1
underscore_to_camelCase - 163 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #29 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 104 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #66 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1399 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #46 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 9
Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #499 / 2114
  • Number of attempts: 3
Free hyphen! - 165 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #22 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 2
Convert pasted text into Markdown - 23 entries

I often need to copy/paste text into Markdown files. The challenge here is to wrap the lines in a way that prefers breaks after periods, commas, or other logical demarcations. There should be no spaces at the beginning of a line.

  • Best score: 46
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #5 / 13
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 431 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #35 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 3
Order and join - 965 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #66 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph breaks - 509 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #37 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 4
Inner hyphens - 130 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #10 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 2
Align commas - 1063 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: 11
  • Position: #83 / 243
  • Number of attempts: 7
ascii-art diamond - 37 entries

Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #8 / 16
  • Number of attempts: 4
Create bison tokens - 35 entries

Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words

  • Best score: 85
  • Best player score: 86
  • Position: #6 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 2
Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #54 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2174 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: #173 / 664
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 648 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: 14
  • Position: #45 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 139 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #20 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment each number - 995 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #39 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 5
Around the clock - 191 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: 13
  • Position: #27 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 2
Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #119 / 151
  • Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 795 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #175 / 387
  • Number of attempts: 2
Song Transcription Oops - 236 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #34 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 2
change parenthesis - 287 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #56 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remove quotes after first field - 367 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #21 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put the months in order - 972 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #6 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reorder the groups - 1146 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #48 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 2
move titles next to url, in quotes - 510 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #20 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2407 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #269 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 837 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: 29
  • Position: #73 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 5
Mirror Symmetry - 812 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #84 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 4
unknown command - 166 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #49 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 1
No naked if allowed! - 33 entries

House style forbids naked condition statements, comments should start with a space character and be on their own line. Good luck!

  • Best score: 46
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #3 / 16
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change your calendar - 363 entries

Happy New Year!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #8 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 8
Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #448 / 1188
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #98 / 442
  • Number of attempts: 6
Fix the XML - 1000 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #58 / 287
  • Number of attempts: 6
Mute the second method of this script - 449 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #136 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 1
Square numbers - 104 entries

Boring math puzzle.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #3 / 41
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #923 / 4166
  • Number of attempts: 6
Shift down - 194 entries

Number words are back.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #20 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 1006 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #51 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 5
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 244 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #55 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 3
120 Degrees - 469 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #30 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 4
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 126 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #20 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 3
Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #11 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 5
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1136 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #69 / 298
  • Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 1996 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: #228 / 581
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mess in revision history - 1183 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #59 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1427 / 3677
  • Number of attempts: 2
Under the cupola - 49 entries

Taking some liberty about the name and plot of the Stephen King's famous novel (and TV series) to make this challenge. Are you able to recreate graphically the key phrase of the story? (I think is gonna be hard!)

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #8 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: 14
  • Position: #327 / 1073
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1021 / 3950
  • Number of attempts: 6
Draw the Go board - 144 entries

which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 67
  • Position: #20 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 1017 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #90 / 303
  • Number of attempts: 5
Lookahead and Lookbehind - 68 entries

Look everywhere

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #8 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 3
REDRUM - 151 entries

If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #19 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 5
Execute immediate SQL - 87 entries

Sql string tranformation ...

  • Best score: 58
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #6 / 31
  • Number of attempts: 5
Refactor arguments into object argument - 162 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #17 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #102 / 443
  • Number of attempts: 5
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 ;-)

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #5 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 6
Saving the hashes(#) - 2008 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: 20
  • Position: #64 / 476
  • Number of attempts: 7
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #125 / 442
  • Number of attempts: 3
calculations - 297 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #7 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #82 / 748
  • Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #213 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 4
Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #121 / 410
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse and double space - 498 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #62 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove semicolons after expressions - 639 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #104 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #568 / 1742
  • Number of attempts: 4
formatted text to markdown - 184 entries

You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.

  • Best score: 70
  • Best player score: 79
  • Position: #43 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alphabetize the directory - 284 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #14 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 8
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 508 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #45 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 6
Case preserving word replacement - 454 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: 19
  • Position: #60 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 3
Getters & Setters: Java - 206 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

  • Best score: 89
  • Best player score: 91
  • Position: #6 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 13
Shebangs for all - 1917 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: 11
  • Position: #56 / 502
  • Number of attempts: 6
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 307 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

  • Best score: 106
  • Best player score: 115
  • Position: #26 / 143
  • Number of attempts: 3
Letters are numbers - 154 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #7 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat most common surnames - 671 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #19 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 3
Braces or Brackets? - 930 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #266 / 295
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #136 / 758
  • Number of attempts: 7
Flodder-challenge - 1176 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #17 / 321
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #598 / 3626
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

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

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #818 / 1652
  • Number of attempts: 1
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