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Generate a very basic Python constructor - 315 entries

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

Best score: 38
Best player score: 81
Position: #87 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 1121 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #192 / 281
Number of attempts: 1

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 332 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 57
Position: #98 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

RUST match with enum for Coin - 183 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 110
Position: #33 / 53
Number of attempts: 3

Enumerate Bullets - 309 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 100
Position: #83 / 83
Number of attempts: 2

Easy modification of ssh config - 348 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 40
Position: #80 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 291 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: 46
Position: #51 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4427 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 23
Position: #891 / 1086
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2360 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: 32
Position: #374 / 465
Number of attempts: 2

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 946 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #293 / 302
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 680 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 13
Position: #287 / 298
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 671 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: 18
Position: #194 / 218
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 757 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: 33
Position: #151 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #493 / 522
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1114 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: 50
Position: #212 / 228
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: 32
Position: #5971 / 7384
Number of attempts: 2

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 891 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 35
Position: #236 / 257
Number of attempts: 1

Get mail address from outlook format - 642 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #182 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #1178 / 1259
Number of attempts: 1

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 23
Position: #1422 / 1530
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 32
Position: #3690 / 3852
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1066 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #235 / 278
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 877 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 58
Position: #122 / 154
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 27
Position: #521 / 573
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 16
Position: #1872 / 1887
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #683 / 843
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 307 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 42
Position: #70 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Add string initializers to an enum - 866 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #237 / 256
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #2701 / 3055
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2009 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #428 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2131 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 34
Position: #611 / 633
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1055 / 1151
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 56
Position: #818 / 839
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7849 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #1465 / 1870
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 802 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #201 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

multiple cursor alternative - 1488 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: 60
Position: #373 / 378
Number of attempts: 1

html paragraph to table - 601 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 98
Position: #118 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

From argument to object - 1481 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: 31
Position: #435 / 453
Number of attempts: 1

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 747 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #147 / 177
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 30
Position: #691 / 702
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2869 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 39
Position: #625 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2337 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #737 / 750
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #1476 / 1604
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 29
Position: #694 / 698
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3859 / 4174
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1812 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 29
Position: #578 / 585
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 860 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: 14
Best player score: 34
Position: #205 / 211
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 31
Position: #1217 / 1260
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 958 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: 34
Position: #262 / 267
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1399 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 36
Position: #252 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1778 / 2114
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1063 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: 30
Position: #237 / 243
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2174 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: 26
Position: #644 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2023 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 43
Position: #455 / 498
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 995 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #206 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 795 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 9
Position: #377 / 387
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1146 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 43
Position: #255 / 262
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 510 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Position: #131 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2407 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 50
Position: #424 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

convert yml into java pojo field - 837 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: 38
Position: #202 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 31
Position: #1172 / 1188
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 36
Position: #434 / 442
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #3678 / 4166
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #1096 / 1132
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3454 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 46
Position: #656 / 695
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #3318 / 3950
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 2008 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: 74
Position: #472 / 476
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabet soup - 425 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 43
Position: #96 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #696 / 748
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 39
Position: #754 / 772
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #1658 / 1742
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 48
Position: #729 / 758
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 28
Position: #3263 / 3626
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 66
Position: #1558 / 1652
Number of attempts: 1