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Generate a very basic Python constructor - 309 entries

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

Best score: 38
Best player score: 81
Position: #85 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 1105 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #190 / 278
Number of attempts: 1

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 320 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 57
Position: #94 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

RUST match with enum for Coin - 176 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 110
Position: #30 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

Enumerate Bullets - 292 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: #80 / 80
Number of attempts: 2

Easy modification of ssh config - 335 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 40
Position: #78 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 281 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: #49 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4368 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 23
Position: #879 / 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: 32
Position: #369 / 457
Number of attempts: 2

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 930 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #288 / 296
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: 13
Position: #282 / 292
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 652 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: #190 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 747 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: #149 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1115 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #489 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1098 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: #209 / 225
Number of attempts: 2

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: 32
Position: #5957 / 7364
Number of attempts: 2

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: 35
Position: #233 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

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: 26
Position: #178 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #1176 / 1257
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: 23
Position: #1410 / 1517
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 32
Position: #3681 / 3842
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1054 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #231 / 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: 58
Position: #118 / 150
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 27
Position: #517 / 569
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 16
Position: #1865 / 1879
Number of attempts: 1

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: 18
Position: #680 / 840
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 302 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 42
Position: #68 / 68
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: 31
Position: #235 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #2692 / 3044
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #426 / 516
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 34
Position: #609 / 630
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1048 / 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: 56
Position: #806 / 827
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #1461 / 1865
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 793 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #200 / 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: 60
Position: #371 / 376
Number of attempts: 1

html paragraph to table - 590 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 98
Position: #116 / 123
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: 31
Position: #432 / 450
Number of attempts: 1

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #144 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 30
Position: #689 / 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: 39
Position: #621 / 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: 24
Position: #731 / 744
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #1459 / 1585
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 29
Position: #691 / 695
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: #3851 / 4164
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 29
Position: #575 / 581
Number of attempts: 1

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: 34
Position: #203 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 31
Position: #1215 / 1258
Number of attempts: 1

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: 34
Position: #261 / 266
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 36
Position: #248 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1769 / 2101
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: 30
Position: #235 / 241
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: 26
Position: #642 / 662
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: 43
Position: #453 / 496
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #204 / 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: 9
Position: #375 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1137 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 43
Position: #252 / 259
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Position: #129 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 50
Position: #422 / 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: 38
Position: #200 / 223
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 31
Position: #1170 / 1186
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 36
Position: #432 / 440
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #3675 / 4161
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #1093 / 1129
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 46
Position: #653 / 692
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #3316 / 3946
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 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: #469 / 473
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabet soup - 419 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 43
Position: #93 / 103
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: 33
Position: #687 / 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: 39
Position: #750 / 768
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #1654 / 1736
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 48
Position: #708 / 736
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: 28
Position: #3226 / 3581
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 66
Position: #1524 / 1616
Number of attempts: 1