Played Challenges
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: 30
- Position: #5274 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4543 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #1213 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #3658 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 3
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 189 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #96 / 99
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #523 / 569
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 20
- Position: #217 / 224
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #1769 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 32
- Position: #779 / 840
- Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 100
- Position: #252 / 254
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 63
- Position: #239 / 244
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 28
- Position: #83 / 98
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2835 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #451 / 516
- Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2125 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #583 / 630
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #701 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #715 / 827
- Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #1805 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 793 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #219 / 226
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 49
- Position: #365 / 376
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1474 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #392 / 450
- Number of attempts: 1
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 78
- Position: #173 / 174
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #698 / 700
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2840 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #600 / 635
- Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2314 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #741 / 744
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1205 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #677 / 695
- Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #307 / 314
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #3823 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 6
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #563 / 581
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 28
- Position: #200 / 209
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #1196 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 957 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #265 / 266
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 20
- Position: #268 / 287
- Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1372 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 133
- Position: #261 / 261
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1096 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 688 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 69
- Position: #139 / 161
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 956 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #250 / 255
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #143 / 165
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #407 / 418
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1049 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #223 / 241
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 88 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #59 / 61
- 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: 28
- Position: #650 / 662
- Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #184 / 203
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 137 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #60 / 73
- Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2004 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #475 / 496
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 59 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 3
- Best player score: 3
- Position: #29 / 47
- Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 248 entries
This shouldn't be too tough
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #146 / 148
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 791 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #370 / 385
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove quotes after first field - 353 entries
Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #85 / 87
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 75
- Position: #156 / 158
- Number of attempts: 2
Reorder the groups - 1137 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #229 / 259
- Number of attempts: 2
move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 70
- Position: #134 / 135
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 70
- Position: #433 / 443
- Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 90
- Position: #223 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #166 / 266
- Number of attempts: 1
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #143 / 155
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #1181 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #236 / 274
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #405 / 440
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #265 / 284
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 788 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #235 / 242
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #3822 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1065 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 1001 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #344 / 351
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #397 / 431
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3459 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 73
- Position: #688 / 692
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1594 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #444 / 511
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3125 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #1044 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #3654 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 16
- Position: #426 / 439
- Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #437 / 441
- Number of attempts: 1
calculations - 262 entries
Complete these (weird) calculations.
- Best score: 38
- Best player score: 80
- Position: #63 / 64
- Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #707 / 738
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #725 / 768
- Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2082 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #645 / 652
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5036 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1638 / 1736
- Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 558 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #354 / 356
- 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: 24
- Position: #616 / 640
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 27
- Position: #280 / 331
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1859 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #614 / 639
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 40
- Position: #499 / 500
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #505 / 512
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1476 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #517 / 558
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #3496 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 75
- Position: #1561 / 1616
- Number of attempts: 1
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