Played Challenges
Poorly indented Python comments - 886 entries
Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #93 / 169
- Number of attempts: 2
Many duplicates - 854 entries
Quick and easy
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #33 / 288
- Number of attempts: 1
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 459 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: #73 / 109
- Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1098 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #3 / 357
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 1731 entries
Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #312 / 420
- Number of attempts: 1
Visual block training - 780 entries
You see the input. You see the output. Go.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #61 / 146
- Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1356 entries
Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #429 / 460
- Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 1986 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #315 / 565
- Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 748 entries
Speak in tongues
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #120 / 231
- Number of attempts: 4
Inverting Lines - 1565 entries
A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #239 / 424
- Number of attempts: 4
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 237 entries
Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Position: #89 / 157
- Number of attempts: 1
Put a cross in the square - 175 entries
Put a cross in the square
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #48 / 76
- Number of attempts: 5
HS Final exam vimgolf - 815 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: #114 / 215
- Number of attempts: 2
Turn the x - 275 entries
Turn the x to a +
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #63 / 71
- Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4257 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #619 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 2
Satisfy the go linter - 2076 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: #309 / 422
- Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 845 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #216 / 267
- Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1082 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #366 / 498
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4500 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #774 / 1247
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #422 / 1493
- Number of attempts: 7
Quote modules - 1024 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #125 / 263
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4651 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1470 / 1864
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2793 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #525 / 827
- Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #228 / 246
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap the operands under comparison - 266 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #55 / 96
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1056 / 1128
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3511 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #415 / 789
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2856 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #516 / 691
- Number of attempts: 1
Array propagate - 318 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #59 / 114
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2522 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #372 / 689
- Number of attempts: 6
Learn some german verbs - 527 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: #62 / 129
- Number of attempts: 3
Interweave two blocks of text - 615 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: #203 / 210
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5489 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #259 / 1245
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 928 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: #157 / 261
- Number of attempts: 3
Create a table - 309 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #55 / 100
- Number of attempts: 7
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 825 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 / 281
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 421 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #74 / 122
- Number of attempts: 5
Order and join - 913 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #134 / 248
- Number of attempts: 6
One to Ten - 2123 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: #493 / 650
- Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 612 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: #118 / 197
- Number of attempts: 3
Separating firstname & lastname - 117 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #23 / 54
- Number of attempts: 3
convert yml into java pojo field - 826 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: #125 / 222
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 581 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #218 / 240
- Number of attempts: 1
Change your calendar - 349 entries
Happy New Year!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #39 / 82
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4212 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #659 / 1176
- Number of attempts: 2
VimGolfNight - 520 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #278 / 338
- Number of attempts: 1
Logging with key - 299 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #66 / 85
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #133 / 436
- Number of attempts: 9
ASCII box - 324 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #78 / 103
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 775 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: #217 / 239
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15852 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2355 / 4136
- Number of attempts: 2
learn vim in short time - 222 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #123 / 153
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3149 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #861 / 1121
- Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 985 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #128 / 347
- Number of attempts: 3
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 239 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #60 / 113
- Number of attempts: 3
Gray area - 712 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #123 / 264
- Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #215 / 292
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1959 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: #372 / 574
- Number of attempts: 2
Vim tetris - 352 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #76 / 101
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3089 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: #654 / 1061
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12790 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1158 / 3932
- Number of attempts: 3
Pairs of numbers - 347 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: #48 / 131
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete unwanted lines - 390 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #182 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
Block Fun 1 - 187 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #21 / 71
- Number of attempts: 5
Prefixes and suffixes - 586 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #152 / 189
- Number of attempts: 1
Dehamlizing - 177 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #43 / 68
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 492 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #107 / 187
- Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 638 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #266 / 350
- Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1534 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: #303 / 432
- Number of attempts: 1
Stairs Indenting - 440 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #132 / 189
- Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1053 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #129 / 431
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2389 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #482 / 724
- Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 975 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #341 / 394
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 670 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: #239 / 265
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4997 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #651 / 1724
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 538 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #301 / 346
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 284 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #131 / 143
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1845 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #70 / 634
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1202 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 / 394
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 822 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #360 / 449
- Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 357 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #71 / 129
- Number of attempts: 4
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 444 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #150 / 228
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 996 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #207 / 335
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 613 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #119 / 193
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1416 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #287 / 540
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1250 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #413 / 505
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11906 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1878 / 3484
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6251 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #936 / 1544
- Number of attempts: 1