Played Challenges
Fix timezone format - 282 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: 19
- Position: #57 / 92
- Number of attempts: 1
Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 258 entries
Replace a column in the where clause and convert all numbers from text to numeric, by replacing the leading 0 with the code 359.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #31 / 59
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove adjacent duplicates - 559 entries
Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #58 / 146
- Number of attempts: 3
New teacher - 1357 entries
Update the details of the new CS teacher.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #78 / 282
- Number of attempts: 1
months to html list items - 1088 entries
Turn the months into list items.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #27 / 295
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 15
- Position: #229 / 422
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 17
- Position: #234 / 565
- Number of attempts: 3
Poorly indented Python comments - 1328 entries
Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #125 / 223
- Number of attempts: 2
Many duplicates - 1459 entries
Quick and easy
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #57 / 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: 54
- Position: #97 / 155
- Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1801 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #3 / 561
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 2605 entries
Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #459 / 606
- Number of attempts: 1
Visual block training - 1089 entries
You see the input. You see the output. Go.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #77 / 206
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 20
- Position: #520 / 559
- Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 2505 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #392 / 712
- Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 898 entries
Speak in tongues
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #144 / 272
- Number of attempts: 4
Inverting Lines - 1923 entries
A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #298 / 516
- Number of attempts: 4
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 340 entries
Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Position: #89 / 209
- Number of attempts: 1
Put a cross in the square - 235 entries
Put a cross in the square
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #58 / 92
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 27
- Position: #130 / 239
- Number of attempts: 2
Turn the x - 328 entries
Turn the x to a +
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #72 / 82
- 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: 13
- Position: #666 / 1113
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 28
- Position: #355 / 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: #248 / 317
- Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1151 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #367 / 533
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4644 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #788 / 1275
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #422 / 1551
- Number of attempts: 7
Quote modules - 1094 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #135 / 285
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4824 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1490 / 1899
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 15
- Position: #550 / 859
- Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 875 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #241 / 260
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 23
- Position: #59 / 103
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1098 / 1172
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #457 / 882
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2922 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #524 / 706
- Number of attempts: 1
Array propagate - 339 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #63 / 120
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2595 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #377 / 701
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 22
- Position: #64 / 133
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 29
- Position: #207 / 215
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #259 / 1270
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 1001 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: 21
- Position: #167 / 274
- Number of attempts: 3
Create a table - 332 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #57 / 105
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #152 / 294
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #76 / 125
- Number of attempts: 5
Order and join - 985 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #139 / 260
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 14
- Position: #516 / 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: #124 / 209
- Number of attempts: 3
Separating firstname & lastname - 154 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #27 / 58
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 30
- Position: #129 / 228
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 664 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #233 / 258
- Number of attempts: 1
Change your calendar - 397 entries
Happy New Year!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #41 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4308 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #670 / 1192
- Number of attempts: 2
VimGolfNight - 575 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #278 / 352
- Number of attempts: 1
Logging with key - 328 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #68 / 88
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #136 / 446
- Number of attempts: 9
ASCII box - 347 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #81 / 107
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 20
- Position: #223 / 248
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2386 / 4194
- 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: #123 / 161
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #875 / 1138
- Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 1022 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #131 / 354
- Number of attempts: 3
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #60 / 116
- Number of attempts: 3
Gray area - 747 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #125 / 271
- Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #220 / 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: 14
- Position: #378 / 586
- Number of attempts: 2
Vim tetris - 364 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #78 / 103
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
- Position: #667 / 1085
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12969 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1170 / 3970
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 32
- Position: #51 / 137
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #182 / 234
- Number of attempts: 1
Block Fun 1 - 211 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #23 / 76
- Number of attempts: 5
Prefixes and suffixes - 637 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #156 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
Dehamlizing - 185 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #44 / 72
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 538 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #110 / 197
- Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 678 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #266 / 363
- 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: 13
- Position: #313 / 447
- Number of attempts: 1
Stairs Indenting - 479 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #135 / 199
- Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1126 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #129 / 447
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2564 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #504 / 759
- Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #356 / 420
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 19
- Position: #246 / 275
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5085 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #651 / 1750
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 575 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #301 / 363
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #136 / 149
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1939 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #70 / 655
- 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: 12
- Position: #104 / 409
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #363 / 461
- Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 441 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #79 / 143
- Number of attempts: 4
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #150 / 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: #214 / 348
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 755 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #136 / 217
- 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: 23
- Position: #325 / 607
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1499 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #477 / 581
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #1938 / 3765
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7228 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #1015 / 1777
- Number of attempts: 1