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HS exam question - 1497 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 57
Position: #82 / 393
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat symbols in list - 1466 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #64 / 322
Number of attempts: 5

Substraction (bis) - 578 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #25 / 107
Number of attempts: 5

Changing around text with citations - 322 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #25 / 88
Number of attempts: 5

Poorly indented Python comments - 1160 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #63 / 202
Number of attempts: 8

Many duplicates - 1252 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #126 / 411
Number of attempts: 2

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 599 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: #39 / 145
Number of attempts: 5

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1175 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 / 246
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the shell script! - 2338 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #89 / 540
Number of attempts: 8

ssh config skills - 249 entries

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

Best score: 41
Best player score: 43
Position: #18 / 63
Number of attempts: 6

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 281 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 / 53
Number of attempts: 10

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: 22
Position: #1960 / 7364
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #494 / 1257
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #796 / 3842
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 - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #56 / 569
Number of attempts: 4

Unsemantic linewrapping - 890 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: #122 / 224
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1410 / 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: 14
Position: #411 / 840
Number of attempts: 5

Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #77 / 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: 20
Position: #79 / 244
Number of attempts: 3

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: 20
Position: #38 / 98
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1098 / 3044
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #238 / 516
Number of attempts: 6

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #671 / 1144
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3668 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #266 / 826
Number of attempts: 4

Extract wireshark capture filter - 198 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 27
Position: #34 / 67
Number of attempts: 5

Box it - 7827 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #503 / 1864
Number of attempts: 7

citizen_hacks_2019_part6 - 20 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 35
Best player score: 36
Position: #6 / 9
Number of attempts: 2

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 125 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 / 44
Number of attempts: 4

Hash staircase - 48 entries

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

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

Cool or not? - 793 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #108 / 226
Number of attempts: 3

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: 20
Position: #174 / 376
Number of attempts: 4

html paragraph to table - 590 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 60
Position: #74 / 123
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: 18
Position: #251 / 450
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #83 / 174
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #248 / 700
Number of attempts: 9

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: 18
Position: #342 / 635
Number of attempts: 1

Convert Application Output to CSV - 187 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #41 / 52
Number of attempts: 3

Array propagate - 319 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #42 / 115
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: #374 / 744
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 147 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #29 / 70
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #619 / 1585
Number of attempts: 4

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: 31
Position: #29 / 127
Number of attempts: 6

Number Sort - 303 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: #151 / 162
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #263 / 695
Number of attempts: 8

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: 10
Position: #203 / 314
Number of attempts: 6

Letterbox - 91 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 41
Position: #6 / 25
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2938 / 4164
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #306 / 581
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #26 / 271
Number of attempts: 6

Todo list specification - 385 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 / 176
Number of attempts: 3

Subnetting - 111 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 34
Position: #18 / 36
Number of attempts: 4

Text to HTML Table - 171 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 53
Position: #26 / 49
Number of attempts: 5

For all cases. - 141 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #68 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 257 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #110 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 376 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #109 / 141
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: #92 / 209
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #290 / 1258
Number of attempts: 11

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: 19
Position: #121 / 266
Number of attempts: 5

Create a table - 325 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #86 / 104
Number of attempts: 3

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 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 / 287
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 325 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 / 171
Number of attempts: 1

Combines all items - 303 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 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 231 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 / 81
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #68 / 120
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #109 / 261
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 7803 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #810 / 2100
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 - 186 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 / 73
Number of attempts: 8

Paragraph sort - 430 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #70 / 123
Number of attempts: 3

Sort files from hosts - 179 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #28 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 956 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #127 / 255
Number of attempts: 4

Paragraph breaks - 505 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #80 / 165
Number of attempts: 4

Array of characters - 153 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: #20 / 45
Number of attempts: 4

lipsum lines - 252 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #24 / 91
Number of attempts: 3

Angular naming conventions - 301 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: #73 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 407 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #47 / 115
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 779 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #48 / 182
Number of attempts: 10

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: 12
Position: #101 / 241
Number of attempts: 8

Hello ${world} - 299 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #44 / 94
Number of attempts: 6

Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #56 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Python challenge - 147 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: #19 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #197 / 662
Number of attempts: 3

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: 14
Position: #47 / 203
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2004 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #132 / 496
Number of attempts: 7

Build a six - 272 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #51 / 92
Number of attempts: 6

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #136 / 242
Number of attempts: 3

Around the clock - 188 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 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

snowflake fractal - 40 entries

From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal

Best score: 26
Best player score: 39
Position: #12 / 18
Number of attempts: 2

Song Transcription Oops - 234 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: #61 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 278 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #59 / 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: 18
Position: #37 / 87
Number of attempts: 9

Put the months in order - 932 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: #88 / 158
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: 15
Position: #106 / 259
Number of attempts: 7

Add Go XML to structure tags - 152 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 / 66
Number of attempts: 2

move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #20 / 135
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #150 / 443
Number of attempts: 10

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: 30
Position: #121 / 223
Number of attempts: 4

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #118 / 266
Number of attempts: 5

Swap assigned value - 624 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #93 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 564 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #93 / 155
Number of attempts: 3

Change your calendar - 362 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #20 / 85
Number of attempts: 7

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #607 / 1186
Number of attempts: 6

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #145 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

readability - 312 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #128 / 148
Number of attempts: 2

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 32
Position: #55 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #126 / 440
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 996 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #68 / 284
Number of attempts: 4

Line 'em up! - 392 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: #50 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII box - 325 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #51 / 104
Number of attempts: 5

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #136 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 219 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: #51 / 81
Number of attempts: 5

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: 13
Position: #95 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1194 / 4161
Number of attempts: 9

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #392 / 1129
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #84 / 351
Number of attempts: 6

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #57 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Lisp Condense - 438 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #83 / 154
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 468 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #31 / 143
Number of attempts: 10

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #118 / 268
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #285 / 293
Number of attempts: 2

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: 12
Position: #227 / 578
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? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #396 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1160 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #92 / 246
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.... - 339 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: #9 / 125
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2398 / 3666
Number of attempts: 2

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: 15
Position: #491 / 1072
Number of attempts: 4

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 345 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: #58 / 105
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12854 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1751 / 3945
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 360 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 / 133
Number of attempts: 11

Hole-in-one - 1012 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: #265 / 302
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #176 / 225
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 516 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #44 / 171
Number of attempts: 7

Prefixes and suffixes - 591 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #27 / 192
Number of attempts: 4

Resort and deup a CSV list - 142 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: #13 / 39
Number of attempts: 3

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 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: #89 / 188
Number of attempts: 2

lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #20 / 163
Number of attempts: 8

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 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: #240 / 439
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 448 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #127 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII-art Histogram - 310 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: #14 / 55
Number of attempts: 7

Array Transposition - 177 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #10 / 53
Number of attempts: 9

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: 21
Position: #120 / 473
Number of attempts: 12

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #319 / 441
Number of attempts: 6

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 337 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 / 111
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2437 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #171 / 736
Number of attempts: 4

Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #40 / 225
Number of attempts: 8

replacing each line of a block selection - 2946 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #212 / 767
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2078 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #311 / 651
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #244 / 403
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 489 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #82 / 194
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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: #194 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #105 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5031 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #964 / 1735
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #184 / 640
Number of attempts: 4

Line Zipper - 450 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #61 / 210
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1336 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 / 331
Number of attempts: 3

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 507 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 / 148
Number of attempts: 6

Case preserving word replacement - 453 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 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

imports alignment (python) - 661 entries

Align as one import per line.

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

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 390 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 - 842 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #15 / 202
Number of attempts: 7

Generate English Alphabets - 472 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #20 / 202
Number of attempts: 8

Insert a Markdown link - 431 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #39 / 143
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #47 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: #177 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 832 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 - 1912 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: #151 / 500
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse and count - 456 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 / 172
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 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 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #254 / 512
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 459 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #141 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #117 / 338
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 579 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #37 / 229
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat a C golf submission - 556 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 / 200
Number of attempts: 5

Reverse characters in a line - 709 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: #79 / 249
Number of attempts: 8

Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #20 / 198
Number of attempts: 5

Change the content of a string - 1475 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #289 / 557
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #228 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1363 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: #221 / 383
Number of attempts: 2

Braces or Brackets? - 884 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: #38 / 288
Number of attempts: 8

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #130 / 736
Number of attempts: 10

Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1773 / 3580
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 41
Position: #884 / 1614
Number of attempts: 5