Played Challenges
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1356 entries
Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #345 / 460
- Number of attempts: 1
Wikitext headings to markdown - 781 entries
Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #85 / 172
- Number of attempts: 3
hello-world-vimgolf - 1986 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #89 / 565
- Number of attempts: 5
Inverting Lines - 1565 entries
A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #335 / 424
- Number of attempts: 1
Python dataclasses - 798 entries
Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #23 / 205
- Number of attempts: 6
swap number pairs - 1874 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #78 / 347
- Number of attempts: 19
HS Final exam vimgolf - 815 entries
Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #102 / 215
- Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4257 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #97 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 6
Satisfy the go linter - 2076 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: 23
- Position: #192 / 422
- Number of attempts: 6
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 845 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #203 / 267
- Number of attempts: 2
xrandr outputs and dashes - 624 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #97 / 205
- Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 720 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #112 / 160
- Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1082 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #286 / 498
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1054 entries
For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #159 / 214
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33142 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: 26
- Position: #3661 / 7309
- Number of attempts: 4
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 850 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #158 / 247
- Number of attempts: 4
Get mail address from outlook format - 604 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #64 / 190
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values - 4500 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #513 / 1247
- Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #676 / 1493
- Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18498 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1316 / 3816
- Number of attempts: 10
Quote modules - 1024 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #181 / 263
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap values inside brackets - 2442 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #428 / 565
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4651 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1456 / 1864
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
- Position: #598 / 827
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 36
- Position: #209 / 235
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10720 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1904 / 3023
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 1952 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #484 / 502
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1032 / 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: 17
- Position: #537 / 789
- Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7757 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #788 / 1848
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2856 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #514 / 691
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 13
- Position: #175 / 630
- Number of attempts: 9
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: 37
- Position: #84 / 124
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11289 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #3134 / 4144
- Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5489 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #247 / 1245
- Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1336 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #180 / 255
- Number of attempts: 11
Vice versa - 7650 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1408 / 2073
- 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: #325 / 650
- 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: 29
- Position: #256 / 479
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4212 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #503 / 1176
- Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 15852 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #2001 / 4136
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10566 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2467 / 3647
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12790 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #3485 / 3932
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11906 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1842 / 3484
- Number of attempts: 1