Played Challenges
HS exam question - 1510 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 78
- Position: #242 / 397
- Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1254 entries
Quick and easy
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #112 / 413
- Number of attempts: 2
Inverting Lines - 1837 entries
A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #309 / 498
- Number of attempts: 1
HS Final exam vimgolf - 864 entries
Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #177 / 227
- Number of attempts: 1
Python: Def to Lambda - 423 entries
LAMBDA!!!
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #21 / 149
- Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4368 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #574 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2329 entries
You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #431 / 457
- Number of attempts: 1
Multiline to Single Line - 668 entries
Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #75 / 292
- Number of attempts: 3
Capitalize the Names - 361 entries
I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #20 / 91
- Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1115 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #209 / 518
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 24
- Position: #3073 / 7364
- Number of attempts: 4
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 877 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #189 / 254
- Number of attempts: 2
Get mail address from outlook format - 621 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #183 / 196
- Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1047 / 1517
- Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18616 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #3509 / 3842
- Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules - 1054 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #212 / 274
- Number of attempts: 1
Aliases for cd - 849 entries
Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 251
- Position: #149 / 150
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #493 / 569
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 9
- Position: #76 / 224
- Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4751 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #745 / 1879
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 22
- Position: #732 / 840
- Number of attempts: 1
Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #214 / 254
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10792 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1725 / 3044
- Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #401 / 516
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1041 / 1144
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #487 / 827
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7828 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #1746 / 1865
- Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 793 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #182 / 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: 22
- Position: #234 / 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: 20
- Position: #340 / 450
- Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #163 / 174
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #579 / 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: 28
- Position: #590 / 635
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 15
- Position: #460 / 744
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1263 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2556 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #538 / 695
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 21
- Position: #301 / 314
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11360 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #1422 / 4164
- Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #491 / 581
- Number of attempts: 1
Un"finnish"ed Work - 107 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #50 / 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5587 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #937 / 1258
- Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1372 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #154 / 261
- Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7805 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1409 / 2101
- Number of attempts: 3
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: #299 / 662
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 17
- Position: #159 / 203
- Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2004 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 56
- Position: #484 / 496
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 977 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #232 / 242
- 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: 5
- Position: #237 / 385
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 46
- Position: #101 / 158
- Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4264 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #491 / 1186
- Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15931 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #4079 / 4161
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3176 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1029 / 1129
- Number of attempts: 1
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 230 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #95 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 1978 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #559 / 578
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1536 / 3667
- Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #668 / 692
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3125 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #937 / 1072
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12858 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #3658 / 3946
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2448 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #686 / 738
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 22
- Position: #434 / 500
- Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 365 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #127 / 132
- 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: 23
- Position: #2964 / 3581
- Number of attempts: 1