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Played Challenges

simple replacements - 1861 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #21 / 399
Number of attempts: 9

Inverting Lines - 1952 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #39 / 522
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 336 entries

I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #7 / 101
Number of attempts: 11

Python dataclasses - 1248 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #8 / 311
Number of attempts: 2

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 394 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #45 / 105
Number of attempts: 4

RUST match with enum for Coin - 195 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 100
Position: #21 / 55
Number of attempts: 3

Modernise code - 1434 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 37
Position: #112 / 331
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2168 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #86 / 392
Number of attempts: 12

HS Final exam vimgolf - 933 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #10 / 244
Number of attempts: 6

Python: Def to Lambda - 474 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #37 / 158
Number of attempts: 4

Turn the x - 339 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #8 / 84
Number of attempts: 7

Rural Post - 4579 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #107 / 1117
Number of attempts: 12

Satisfy the go linter - 2476 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: 20
Position: #87 / 492
Number of attempts: 9

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1036 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #43 / 327
Number of attempts: 5

Multiline to Single Line - 750 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #131 / 319
Number of attempts: 1

Data reformat - 319 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 36
Best player score: 55
Position: #43 / 67
Number of attempts: 3

xrandr outputs and dashes - 730 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: #101 / 227
Number of attempts: 2

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 796 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: 18
Position: #45 / 175
Number of attempts: 8

Capitalize the Names - 429 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: #32 / 100
Number of attempts: 9

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #307 / 535
Number of attempts: 2

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1158 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: 21
Position: #31 / 234
Number of attempts: 11

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #2313 / 7489
Number of attempts: 9

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #96 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Get mail address from outlook format - 656 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #150 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #342 / 1284
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #706 / 1557
Number of attempts: 8

One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #833 / 3893
Number of attempts: 14

Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #96 / 287
Number of attempts: 5

Aliases for cd - 908 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 41
Position: #65 / 158
Number of attempts: 14

Swap values inside brackets - 2539 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #213 / 590
Number of attempts: 2

Unsemantic linewrapping - 943 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: #84 / 235
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4833 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #767 / 1904
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #663 / 864
Number of attempts: 1

Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #235 / 264
Number of attempts: 1

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1269 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: #110 / 264
Number of attempts: 12

Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1692 / 3087
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #23 / 539
Number of attempts: 6

Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #566 / 636
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #844 / 1179
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #140 / 901
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #803 / 1895
Number of attempts: 4

multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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: #193 / 385
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #75 / 707
Number of attempts: 7

Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #276 / 642
Number of attempts: 9

Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #252 / 760
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #665 / 1643
Number of attempts: 4

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 557 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: 33
Position: #55 / 133
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #230 / 704
Number of attempts: 7

comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 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: 9
Position: #144 / 328
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1458 / 4234
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #274 / 592
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #248 / 1274
Number of attempts: 3

ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #73 / 270
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #584 / 2147
Number of attempts: 6

comments galore - 1074 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #287 / 430
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2243 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: #324 / 683
Number of attempts: 7

Line under headers - 2087 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 29
Position: #274 / 513
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #118 / 257
Number of attempts: 9

Reorder the groups - 1195 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #81 / 267
Number of attempts: 16

move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #119 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2444 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #38 / 453
Number of attempts: 13

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #502 / 1194
Number of attempts: 7

I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1099 / 4208
Number of attempts: 6

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #299 / 1140
Number of attempts: 5

Don't know what this is - 2025 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: 15
Position: #420 / 587
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2503 / 3703
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1644 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: 17
Position: #480 / 520
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: 16
Position: #666 / 1086
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1866 / 3979
Number of attempts: 3

Alphabet soup - 445 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #72 / 111
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #641 / 1756
Number of attempts: 2

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1015 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #31 / 195
Number of attempts: 19

Make it more readable - 2015 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #196 / 654
Number of attempts: 7

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 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: 29
Position: #28 / 166
Number of attempts: 5

Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #56 / 657
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1925 / 3846
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7507 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 39
Position: #800 / 1847
Number of attempts: 1