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Played Challenges

Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 453 entries

This is the reverse of the previous challenge: https://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/9v006705493c000000000513

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #2 / 109
Number of attempts: 3

Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 236 entries

Change the class fields in this Scala class from snake case to camel case

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #1 / 90
Number of attempts: 2

Reorganize Pokémon - 583 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #1 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

Replace csv column if it's not empty - 191 entries

Replace the credit_score_percentile column with the value 0.0 but leave the empty ones untouched

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #4 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 176 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://youtu.be/Bafo3hhheHU?si=DfcT4sUEMTSAevnx&t=1091

Best score: 41
Best player score: 41
Position: #5 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Append leading hyphen count to each line - 81 entries

Append the number of leading hyphens to the end of each line.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #1 / 26
Number of attempts: 2

Markdown Blog Editing - 356 entries

Convert the given link text in start file to a markdown link list.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #14 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

Fix timezone format - 288 entries

Add the missing T and Z in the datetime field. There should be a T instead of the space, and a Z at the end of the datetime. `2024-08-31 18:32:00;` -> `2024-08-31T18:32:00Z;`

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #27 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Remove adjacent duplicates - 560 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #20 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting text - 278 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 30
Position: #7 / 92
Number of attempts: 6

Case matching substitution - 56 entries

Swap every "lorem" for "ipsum", keeping the letter cases the same.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #1 / 16
Number of attempts: 2

Count words - 80 entries

Merge duplicates and count each word.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #1 / 20
Number of attempts: 6

String decompression - 32 entries

3a4b2c => aaabbbbcc. Start a new line when you exceed 79 columns.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 29
Position: #9 / 12
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse even lines - 33 entries

Reverse only the even lines without altering the odd lines.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3 / 12
Number of attempts: 3

Format a long line - 94 entries

Reformat long lines (gq), textwidth=78, no trailing spaces.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #6 / 28
Number of attempts: 1

Evil Numbers - 96 entries

Print the first 100 evil numbers https://oeis.org/A001969. This is an advert for code.golf https://code.golf/evil-numbers#viml

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #3 / 25
Number of attempts: 5

Mirror image - 95 entries

Add the second eye

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #7 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

Find anomalies - 157 entries

There is one special character per line

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #5 / 42
Number of attempts: 2

Coordinate extraction - 55 entries

Get the coordinates of all "M"s from the Vim logo

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #1 / 16
Number of attempts: 4

Morse - 155 entries

Translate Morse code to Text

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #6 / 35
Number of attempts: 6

New teacher - 1363 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #2 / 284
Number of attempts: 2

Replace word while reserving first letter case - 636 entries

Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #2 / 122
Number of attempts: 2

months to html list items - 1088 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #5 / 295
Number of attempts: 1

Instance creation in Verilog - 41 entries

Creating an instance of a module is a very frequent task in Verilog. Let's see how efficiently can it be done

Best score: 107
Best player score: 107
Position: #1 / 9
Number of attempts: 5

Quicksort - 2035 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #1 / 450
Number of attempts: 2

EDN reformat - 1175 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #13 / 167
Number of attempts: 1

Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 413 entries

Your mission is to efficiently convert the original Tic-Tac-Toe grid, represented by 'x's and 'o's, into a neat and well-organized game board.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 70
Position: #18 / 85
Number of attempts: 2

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 441 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #25 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

Populate 3D bone names list - 636 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #1 / 164
Number of attempts: 1

Remove line numbers - 745 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #6 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

Find fix point of cos - 1426 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #1 / 422
Number of attempts: 1

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 474 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #1 / 110
Number of attempts: 3

Easier Align - 406 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 62
Position: #11 / 96
Number of attempts: 8

Paste a column after a column - 2604 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #124 / 565
Number of attempts: 2

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 414 entries

Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #3 / 118
Number of attempts: 1

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 743 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

Best score: 50
Best player score: 52
Position: #18 / 180
Number of attempts: 6

HS exam question - 1596 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 48
Position: #24 / 418
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat symbols in list - 1633 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #68 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Fizzbuzz - 586 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 44
Best player score: 47
Position: #9 / 169
Number of attempts: 4

Substraction (bis) - 619 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #4 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Changing around text with citations - 340 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #3 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

Poorly indented Python comments - 1328 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #1 / 223
Number of attempts: 1

Many duplicates - 1459 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #53 / 476
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 648 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #5 / 155
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1801 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #7 / 561
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1264 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #1 / 272
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2605 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #1 / 606
Number of attempts: 2

Visual block training - 1089 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #14 / 206
Number of attempts: 4

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1664 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #257 / 559
Number of attempts: 1

Java to JavaScript - 277 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

Best score: 59
Best player score: 64
Position: #16 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Wikitext headings to markdown - 1003 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #73 / 210
Number of attempts: 3

hello-world-vimgolf - 2505 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #27 / 712
Number of attempts: 1

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 898 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #163 / 272
Number of attempts: 2

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 290 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #29 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #42 / 185
Number of attempts: 3

Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #37 / 130
Number of attempts: 3

Plotting some variables in python - 1671 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #28 / 349
Number of attempts: 7

Transpose a python matrix - 873 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #48 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Create a diamond comment - 337 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #6 / 75
Number of attempts: 5

Lowercase first characters - 490 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #16 / 184
Number of attempts: 2

Increment number for every 10 lines - 231 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

Best score: 25
Best player score: 43
Position: #30 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

Inverting Lines - 1923 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #126 / 516
Number of attempts: 1

CSV to MD format - 420 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 40
Position: #27 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 316 entries

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

Best score: 38
Best player score: 39
Position: #26 / 98
Number of attempts: 5

Python dataclasses - 1214 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #99 / 300
Number of attempts: 2

RUST HTML to maud. - 24 entries

RUST HTML to maud. maud is one of the template engines for server-side rendering based on rust. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 135
Best player score: 135
Position: #1 / 12
Number of attempts: 3

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 362 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #48 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1410 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #45 / 326
Number of attempts: 3

Staircase - 149 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #13 / 34
Number of attempts: 3

Enumerate Bullets - 327 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: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #22 / 89
Number of attempts: 5

Put a cross in the square - 235 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #32 / 92
Number of attempts: 3

swap number pairs - 2125 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #132 / 386
Number of attempts: 3

HS Final exam vimgolf - 906 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #74 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Easy modification of ssh config - 382 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #31 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

C to python code snippet - 88 entries

C code can be easily translated into Python code. However, the difference in syntax can make this process tedious and time-consuming. Can Vim help you here?

Best score: 48
Best player score: 50
Position: #10 / 30
Number of attempts: 3

Python: Def to Lambda - 460 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #50 / 157
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #34 / 82
Number of attempts: 3

Format the CSS - 158 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 41
Position: #3 / 49
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4563 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #448 / 1113
Number of attempts: 2

Levenshtein distance - 105 entries

Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #3 / 37
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2448 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: #115 / 484
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1008 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #244 / 317
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: 23
Position: #2816 / 7450
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4644 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #522 / 1275
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18780 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #2013 / 3877
Number of attempts: 15

Quote modules - 1094 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #37 / 285
Number of attempts: 1

Wget failed to download redirections - 202 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #15 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

Prime Numbers - 385 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #10 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Separate the lines - 191 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #55 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #53 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2515 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #357 / 584
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4824 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1487 / 1899
Number of attempts: 4

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2900 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #661 / 859
Number of attempts: 4

Swap the operands under comparison - 304 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #41 / 103
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #354 / 635
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #847 / 1172
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3890 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #456 / 882
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 814 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #265 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7939 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #438 / 1885
Number of attempts: 6

Triangular Numbers - 104 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #21 / 29
Number of attempts: 7

Cool or not? - 836 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #148 / 231
Number of attempts: 4

multiple cursor alternative - 1542 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: 23
Position: #283 / 384
Number of attempts: 4

From argument to object - 1524 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: 18
Position: #264 / 463
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #126 / 178
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2922 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #523 / 706
Number of attempts: 3

Copy three lines - 2875 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #248 / 641
Number of attempts: 5

Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #49 / 56
Number of attempts: 5

Array propagate - 339 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #24 / 120
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2369 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #391 / 756
Number of attempts: 1

Start coding format - 155 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #30 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #680 / 1631
Number of attempts: 2

Across-Down Flip - 68 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #1 / 26
Number of attempts: 2

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 542 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: 34
Position: #58 / 130
Number of attempts: 7

Number Sort - 317 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #126 / 169
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #279 / 701
Number of attempts: 5

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: 10
Position: #219 / 328
Number of attempts: 2

Letterbox - 145 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 46
Position: #13 / 28
Number of attempts: 3

Flip the bit - 132 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #43 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

The D a n k Side of the Moon - 50 entries

You're making a vaporwave cover of The Dark Side of the Moon. So for the tracklisting, you want to: 1. Change the track names to v a p o r c a s e 2. Double the track lengths (since you're slowing them down). Well... let's just double the minutes.

Best score: 40
Best player score: 51
Position: #12 / 17
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1475 / 4216
Number of attempts: 4

On Being Stylish - 81 entries

Your PR cannot be accepted if you don't follow our corporate style guide.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #4 / 21
Number of attempts: 3

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 115 entries

Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #11 / 45
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1846 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #326 / 591
Number of attempts: 4

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #75 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #51 / 133
Number of attempts: 4

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #63 / 215
Number of attempts: 2

Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #40 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Todo list specification - 401 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #92 / 180
Number of attempts: 1

Subnetting - 131 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #11 / 39
Number of attempts: 2

Text to HTML Table - 183 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 52
Position: #20 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1006 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 40
Position: #40 / 383
Number of attempts: 2

For all cases. - 168 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #78 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 266 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #37 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 407 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #114 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Format java properties - 89 entries

Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #15 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

Back to the roots - 63 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #1 / 38
Number of attempts: 3

Missing Library and a Typo - 920 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: 16
Position: #102 / 219
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #256 / 1270
Number of attempts: 3

Simple addition - 332 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #76 / 124
Number of attempts: 2

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 176 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #57 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 128 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #57 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 1008 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: 19
Position: #130 / 275
Number of attempts: 6

Create Leading Zeros - 245 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #31 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #56 / 105
Number of attempts: 2

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #151 / 294
Number of attempts: 3

Nesting SASS - 278 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #43 / 98
Number of attempts: 2

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 36
Position: #26 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 181 entries

FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #7 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 338 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #99 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

Combines all items - 313 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #79 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #38 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #72 / 122
Number of attempts: 2

underscore_to_camelCase - 173 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #57 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #75 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #161 / 267
Number of attempts: 4

Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #979 / 2144
Number of attempts: 3

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #36 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

7th Birthday - 210 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #27 / 76
Number of attempts: 2

Free hyphen! - 176 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #85 / 90
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 690 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #49 / 163
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #75 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 244 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #12 / 66
Number of attempts: 5

Sorting a glossary - 132 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #68 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Sort files from hosts - 195 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #33 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #137 / 260
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph breaks - 527 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #86 / 168
Number of attempts: 3

Array of characters - 175 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #20 / 47
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1069 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #295 / 428
Number of attempts: 3

Mirrored text - 185 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #34 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

lipsum lines - 278 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #17 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #73 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 326 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #44 / 119
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #53 / 118
Number of attempts: 3

Change attribute to getter - 157 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #28 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #43 / 184
Number of attempts: 3

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #50 / 128
Number of attempts: 3

Align commas - 1097 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: 11
Position: #91 / 247
Number of attempts: 11

A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #29 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

Manual SQL - 160 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #1 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

Hello ${world} - 325 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #35 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 299 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #60 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Python challenge - 178 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 33
Position: #15 / 47
Number of attempts: 4

One to Ten - 2234 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: #339 / 679
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 663 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: 15
Position: #123 / 209
Number of attempts: 2

Build a six - 305 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #56 / 98
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 1036 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #212 / 252
Number of attempts: 5

simple format (3) - 86 entries

reverse two column values!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #10 / 24
Number of attempts: 2

snowflake fractal - 51 entries

From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal

Best score: 26
Best player score: 36
Position: #13 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 847 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #245 / 406
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 978 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 37
Position: #77 / 164
Number of attempts: 4

Add Go XML to structure tags - 182 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #17 / 73
Number of attempts: 2

move titles next to url, in quotes - 539 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #27 / 144
Number of attempts: 8

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #40 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2427 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #231 / 450
Number of attempts: 5

convert yml into java pojo field - 859 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: 32
Position: #159 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #25 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #90 / 269
Number of attempts: 1

unknown command - 168 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #59 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 664 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #100 / 258
Number of attempts: 4

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #54 / 159
Number of attempts: 3

Cartesian product - 266 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 30
Position: #31 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #47 / 70
Number of attempts: 10

Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #514 / 1192
Number of attempts: 6

VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #277 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #72 / 281
Number of attempts: 4

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #134 / 152
Number of attempts: 2

Interleave lines - 185 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #14 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #23 / 88
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #108 / 446
Number of attempts: 3

remove all lines in first part - 211 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #11 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #61 / 290
Number of attempts: 3

Line 'em up! - 421 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #36 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 246 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #36 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #40 / 107
Number of attempts: 3

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #144 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #37 / 83
Number of attempts: 2

Test everything! - 186 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #10 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 807 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #99 / 248
Number of attempts: 2

increment by column in XML - 152 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #7 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty format for variable declarations - 170 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #3 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #181 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1117 / 4194
Number of attempts: 10

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #29 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #121 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

vim1001 - 307 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #12 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #16 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #426 / 1138
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #55 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Suffix sort - 270 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #7 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #59 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Change name of a variable - 179 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #122 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #88 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 505 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #34 / 146
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #124 / 271
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 139 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #21 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #29 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 257 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #11 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #98 / 301
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2024 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: 12
Position: #240 / 586
Number of attempts: 4

Two become one - 713 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #39 / 208
Number of attempts: 4

Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #215 / 438
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 364 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #25 / 103
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #96 / 254
Number of attempts: 3

Shuffle puzzle - 346 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #51 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 357 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #5 / 129
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 372 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #30 / 112
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2506 / 3695
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #173 / 706
Number of attempts: 10

Counting in binary - 526 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #27 / 117
Number of attempts: 4

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: 10
Position: #171 / 520
Number of attempts: 6

quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: 15
Position: #510 / 1085
Number of attempts: 5

Top X - 212 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #10 / 71
Number of attempts: 4

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 348 entries

"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #35 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

Number an outline - 280 entries

The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 29
Position: #10 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1165 / 3970
Number of attempts: 8

Pairs of numbers - 364 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #35 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

Hole-in-one - 1024 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #93 / 305
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #181 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 179 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #26 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Word frequency alignment - 291 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #112 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #33 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

Enumerate words - 257 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #33 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 637 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #21 / 202
Number of attempts: 3

Refactor arguments into object argument - 166 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 49
Position: #5 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Resort and deup a CSV list - 170 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 46
Position: #17 / 44
Number of attempts: 7

abcd > a b c d - 298 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #189 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Lots of function arguments - 119 entries

The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 13
Position: #21 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Readable Rubyhash - 274 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #14 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 538 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #46 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

Pascal's Triangle - 38 entries

Generate the first 17 left-justified rows of Pascal's triangle.

Best score: 36
Best player score: 43
Position: #14 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Santa's naughty / nice list - 90 entries

Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 42
Position: #10 / 26
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffle and Sort - 233 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #13 / 69
Number of attempts: 4

A simple change - 474 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #45 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 200 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #1 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #1 / 193
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #263 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 637 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #23 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1616 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #249 / 447
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 479 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #22 / 199
Number of attempts: 2

Array Transposition - 201 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 32
Position: #29 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

Python to Ruby - 204 entries

Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #12 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 206 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #14 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 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: 23
Position: #134 / 480
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1126 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #330 / 447
Number of attempts: 1

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #35 / 113
Number of attempts: 2

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #5 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2564 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #183 / 759
Number of attempts: 7

Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #44 / 231
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #223 / 779
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2152 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #327 / 667
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #257 / 420
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #66 / 199
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #137 / 275
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 663 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #117 / 264
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1002 / 1750
Number of attempts: 6

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #300 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #52 / 193
Number of attempts: 4

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #30 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #57 / 149
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #198 / 652
Number of attempts: 2

Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #16 / 216
Number of attempts: 2

remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #81 / 336
Number of attempts: 2

Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #26 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #26 / 150
Number of attempts: 1

Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #65 / 180
Number of attempts: 2

Sort entries based on date - 405 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #42 / 118
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #56 / 198
Number of attempts: 3

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: #29 / 166
Number of attempts: 2

HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #17 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

expand a list comprehension (python) - 334 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 42
Position: #17 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 361 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #29 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 498 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #24 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Insert a Markdown link - 459 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #11 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #66 / 655
Number of attempts: 1

Java Array2List - 233 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 68
Position: #5 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

The holy-grail may help - 389 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #152 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1258 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #188 / 409
Number of attempts: 2

Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #54 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2039 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: 12
Position: #160 / 521
Number of attempts: 4

A Simple One - 1064 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #527 / 670
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 321 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #12 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 106
Position: #1 / 146
Number of attempts: 2

Table Reshuffle - 450 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #29 / 144
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse and count - 486 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #10 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 640 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #66 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #361 / 461
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #43 / 413
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #11 / 165
Number of attempts: 4

Indentation - 552 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #16 / 181
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 548 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #8 / 189
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #393 / 534
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the Haiku - 320 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #10 / 115
Number of attempts: 4

Context insensitive completion 0 - 590 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #113 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 441 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #32 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #148 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #212 / 348
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #65 / 240
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 614 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #2 / 210
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 778 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #85 / 268
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 755 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #25 / 217
Number of attempts: 3

Remember FizzBuzz? - 742 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 44
Position: #22 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 415 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #127 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1646 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #193 / 607
Number of attempts: 2

Deleting folded text - 386 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #22 / 121
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1499 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #237 / 581
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 664 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #42 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1647 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #250 / 433
Number of attempts: 2

Braces or Brackets? - 1073 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #50 / 331
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3793 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #150 / 814
Number of attempts: 8

Flodder-challenge - 1369 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 29
Position: #86 / 352
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13092 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1917 / 3765
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7229 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 38
Position: #674 / 1778
Number of attempts: 2

Contributed Challenges

Poorly indented Python comments - 1328 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Substraction (bis) - 619 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

Played Challenges

Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 453 entries

Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 236 entries

Reorganize Pokémon - 583 entries

Replace csv column if it's not empty - 191 entries

CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 176 entries

Append leading hyphen count to each line - 81 entries

Markdown Blog Editing - 356 entries

Fix timezone format - 288 entries

Remove adjacent duplicates - 560 entries

Deleting text - 278 entries

Case matching substitution - 56 entries

Count words - 80 entries

String decompression - 32 entries

Reverse even lines - 33 entries

Format a long line - 94 entries

Evil Numbers - 96 entries

Mirror image - 95 entries

Find anomalies - 157 entries

Coordinate extraction - 55 entries

Morse - 155 entries

New teacher - 1363 entries

Replace word while reserving first letter case - 636 entries

months to html list items - 1088 entries

Instance creation in Verilog - 41 entries

Quicksort - 2035 entries

EDN reformat - 1175 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 413 entries

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 441 entries

Populate 3D bone names list - 636 entries

Remove line numbers - 745 entries

Find fix point of cos - 1426 entries

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 474 entries

Easier Align - 406 entries

Paste a column after a column - 2604 entries

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 414 entries

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 743 entries

HS exam question - 1596 entries

Reformat symbols in list - 1633 entries

Fizzbuzz - 586 entries

Substraction (bis) - 619 entries

Changing around text with citations - 340 entries

Poorly indented Python comments - 1328 entries

Many duplicates - 1459 entries

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 648 entries

delete swap - 1801 entries

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1264 entries

Fix the shell script! - 2605 entries

Visual block training - 1089 entries

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1664 entries

Java to JavaScript - 277 entries

Wikitext headings to markdown - 1003 entries

hello-world-vimgolf - 2505 entries

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 898 entries

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 290 entries

Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

Plotting some variables in python - 1671 entries

Transpose a python matrix - 873 entries

Create a diamond comment - 337 entries

Lowercase first characters - 490 entries

Increment number for every 10 lines - 231 entries

Inverting Lines - 1923 entries

CSV to MD format - 420 entries

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 316 entries

Python dataclasses - 1214 entries

RUST HTML to maud. - 24 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 362 entries

Modernise code - 1410 entries

Staircase - 149 entries

Enumerate Bullets - 327 entries

Put a cross in the square - 235 entries

swap number pairs - 2125 entries

HS Final exam vimgolf - 906 entries

Easy modification of ssh config - 382 entries

C to python code snippet - 88 entries

Python: Def to Lambda - 460 entries

Turn the x - 328 entries