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HS exam question - 1124 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 57
Position: #60 / 306
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat symbols in list - 1021 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #44 / 233
Number of attempts: 5

Substraction (bis) - 383 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #18 / 80
Number of attempts: 5

Changing around text with citations - 197 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #20 / 60
Number of attempts: 5

Poorly indented Python comments - 866 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #47 / 168
Number of attempts: 8

Many duplicates - 851 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #111 / 287
Number of attempts: 2

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 451 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 38
Position: #32 / 108
Number of attempts: 5

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: 29
Position: #30 / 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: 27
Position: #77 / 418
Number of attempts: 8

ssh config skills - 236 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 43
Position: #17 / 58
Number of attempts: 6

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 263 entries

Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #20 / 50
Number of attempts: 10

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: 22
Position: #1960 / 7308
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #491 / 1247
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18497 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #787 / 3815
Number of attempts: 9

vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #49 / 131
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2442 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #56 / 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: 10
Position: #120 / 218
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4651 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1399 / 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: 14
Position: #403 / 827
Number of attempts: 5

Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #76 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1124 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: 20
Position: #76 / 235
Number of attempts: 3

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: 20
Position: #38 / 96
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1090 / 3023
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 1952 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #230 / 502
Number of attempts: 6

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #664 / 1128
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3511 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #257 / 789
Number of attempts: 4

Extract wireshark capture filter - 193 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 27
Position: #32 / 64
Number of attempts: 5

Box it - 7756 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #501 / 1847
Number of attempts: 7

citizen_hacks_2019_part6 - 19 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 35
Best player score: 36
Position: #5 / 8
Number of attempts: 2

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: #27 / 42
Number of attempts: 4

Hash staircase - 41 entries

Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #19 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

Cool or not? - 767 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #107 / 220
Number of attempts: 3

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: 20
Position: #173 / 372
Number of attempts: 4

html paragraph to table - 587 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 60
Position: #73 / 122
Number of attempts: 4

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: 18
Position: #248 / 441
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 719 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #81 / 170
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #247 / 691
Number of attempts: 9

Copy three lines - 2824 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #340 / 630
Number of attempts: 1

Convert Application Output to CSV - 180 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #40 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

Array propagate - 318 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #41 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

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: 14
Position: #373 / 737
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 136 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #29 / 66
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4749 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #619 / 1574
Number of attempts: 4

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 527 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: 31
Position: #29 / 124
Number of attempts: 6

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: #148 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #262 / 689
Number of attempts: 8

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: #198 / 305
Number of attempts: 6

Letterbox - 88 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 41
Position: #6 / 24
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2929 / 4144
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #303 / 575
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #26 / 265
Number of attempts: 6

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: 37
Position: #74 / 170
Number of attempts: 3

Subnetting - 105 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 34
Position: #16 / 34
Number of attempts: 4

Text to HTML Table - 157 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 53
Position: #25 / 46
Number of attempts: 5

For all cases. - 131 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #68 / 94
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 247 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #109 / 132
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 366 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #109 / 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: 16
Position: #91 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5489 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #283 / 1245
Number of attempts: 11

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: 19
Position: #118 / 261
Number of attempts: 5

Create a table - 309 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #83 / 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: 13
Position: #137 / 281
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 313 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #93 / 164
Number of attempts: 1

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: 9
Position: #73 / 132
Number of attempts: 1

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 226 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #34 / 78
Number of attempts: 3

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: #68 / 119
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1336 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #108 / 255
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 7643 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #800 / 2072
Number of attempts: 4

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #32 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

7th Birthday - 185 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #24 / 72
Number of attempts: 8

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: #70 / 122
Number of attempts: 3

Sort files from hosts - 167 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #27 / 70
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 913 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #125 / 248
Number of attempts: 4

Paragraph breaks - 497 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #80 / 163
Number of attempts: 4

Array of characters - 135 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #19 / 41
Number of attempts: 4

lipsum lines - 247 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #24 / 89
Number of attempts: 3

Angular naming conventions - 285 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #71 / 111
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 405 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #47 / 114
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #48 / 181
Number of attempts: 10

Align commas - 1046 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: 12
Position: #98 / 238
Number of attempts: 8

Hello ${world} - 298 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #44 / 93
Number of attempts: 6

Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #56 / 135
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: 38
Position: #17 / 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: 12
Position: #197 / 650
Number of attempts: 3

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 612 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: #47 / 197
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 1941 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #126 / 479
Number of attempts: 7

Build a six - 267 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #51 / 89
Number of attempts: 6

Increment each number - 959 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #133 / 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: 14
Position: #47 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

snowflake fractal - 39 entries

From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal

Best score: 26
Best player score: 39
Position: #11 / 17
Number of attempts: 2

Song Transcription Oops - 227 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: 22
Position: #59 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 267 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #59 / 151
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: 18
Position: #35 / 83
Number of attempts: 9

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: 43
Position: #86 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1120 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #105 / 255
Number of attempts: 7

Add Go XML to structure tags - 151 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #23 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

move titles next to url, in quotes - 497 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #19 / 131
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2321 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #147 / 434
Number of attempts: 10

convert yml into java pojo field - 826 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: 30
Position: #120 / 222
Number of attempts: 4

Mirror Symmetry - 787 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #116 / 264
Number of attempts: 5

Swap assigned value - 581 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #93 / 240
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #93 / 154
Number of attempts: 3

Change your calendar - 349 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #20 / 82
Number of attempts: 7

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #600 / 1176
Number of attempts: 6

camel riding - 760 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #144 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

readability - 310 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #128 / 147
Number of attempts: 2

Logging with key - 299 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 32
Position: #55 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #125 / 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: 19
Position: #65 / 280
Number of attempts: 4

Line 'em up! - 384 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #49 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII box - 324 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #51 / 103
Number of attempts: 5

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: 9
Position: #136 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 213 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #50 / 80
Number of attempts: 5

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: 13
Position: #95 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1189 / 4136
Number of attempts: 9

-a-b-c- - 3149 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #390 / 1121
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 985 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #83 / 347
Number of attempts: 6

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 239 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #57 / 113
Number of attempts: 2

Lisp Condense - 434 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #83 / 153
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 457 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #31 / 142
Number of attempts: 10

Gray area - 712 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #117 / 264
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #285 / 292
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: 12
Position: #225 / 574
Number of attempts: 8

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: 27
Position: #42 / 205
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 853 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #393 / 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: 18
Position: #92 / 245
Number of attempts: 7

Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #47 / 101
Number of attempts: 4

Going underground.... - 315 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #7 / 122
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10566 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2385 / 3647
Number of attempts: 2

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: 15
Position: #485 / 1060
Number of attempts: 4

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 340 entries

"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #57 / 103
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1743 / 3932
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 347 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #33 / 131
Number of attempts: 11

Hole-in-one - 985 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: 23
Position: #263 / 300
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 390 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #176 / 223
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 510 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #44 / 169
Number of attempts: 7

Prefixes and suffixes - 586 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #27 / 189
Number of attempts: 4

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: 46
Position: #12 / 37
Number of attempts: 3

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 394 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #88 / 184
Number of attempts: 2

lamb had a little Mary - 569 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #20 / 159
Number of attempts: 8

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: 9
Position: #236 / 432
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 440 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #126 / 189
Number of attempts: 1

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 ;-)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #13 / 53
Number of attempts: 7

Array Transposition - 169 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #10 / 51
Number of attempts: 9

Saving the hashes(#) - 1974 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: 21
Position: #120 / 469
Number of attempts: 12

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1053 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #314 / 431
Number of attempts: 6

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 335 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #33 / 110
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #169 / 724
Number of attempts: 4

Exchanging Quotes - 801 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #38 / 221
Number of attempts: 8

replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #212 / 756
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2002 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #305 / 634
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 975 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #240 / 394
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 471 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #82 / 190
Number of attempts: 3

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: 16
Position: #192 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 584 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #105 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4997 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #959 / 1724
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #182 / 636
Number of attempts: 4

Line Zipper - 449 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #61 / 209
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1324 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #79 / 328
Number of attempts: 3

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 505 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 / 146
Number of attempts: 6

Case preserving word replacement - 444 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: #61 / 178
Number of attempts: 2

imports alignment (python) - 657 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #52 / 194
Number of attempts: 4

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 386 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 30
Position: #80 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

HTML to Haml - 838 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #15 / 201
Number of attempts: 7

Generate English Alphabets - 451 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #20 / 197
Number of attempts: 8

Insert a Markdown link - 422 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #38 / 142
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #47 / 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: #176 / 394
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 824 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #50 / 215
Number of attempts: 4

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: 12
Position: #148 / 482
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse and count - 432 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 168
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 608 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #61 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1260 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #254 / 505
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 444 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #141 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 996 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #117 / 335
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 576 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #37 / 227
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat a C golf submission - 546 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #23 / 197
Number of attempts: 5

Reverse characters in a line - 696 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #78 / 246
Number of attempts: 8

Reformat most common surnames - 612 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #20 / 192
Number of attempts: 5

Change the content of a string - 1416 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #279 / 540
Number of attempts: 3

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: #228 / 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: #208 / 358
Number of attempts: 2

Braces or Brackets? - 760 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #33 / 265
Number of attempts: 8

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3107 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #123 / 691
Number of attempts: 10

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: #1758 / 3482
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6251 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 41
Position: #861 / 1544
Number of attempts: 5