VimGolf - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke!

Played Challenges

Fix timezone format - 345 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: #65 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 360 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: #39 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

Remove adjacent duplicates - 718 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #72 / 179
Number of attempts: 3

New teacher - 1502 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #86 / 315
Number of attempts: 1

months to html list items - 1136 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #27 / 308
Number of attempts: 5

Find fix point of cos - 1483 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: #231 / 433
Number of attempts: 2

Paste a column after a column - 2666 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #242 / 577
Number of attempts: 3

Poorly indented Python comments - 1348 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 33
Position: #127 / 224
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 1481 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #59 / 481
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 660 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: #98 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1880 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #3 / 575
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2676 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 45
Position: #472 / 622
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1116 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #79 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1685 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #527 / 566
Number of attempts: 2

hello-world-vimgolf - 2532 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #400 / 725
Number of attempts: 4

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 905 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #145 / 275
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1956 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #302 / 524
Number of attempts: 4

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 346 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #89 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 243 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #59 / 93
Number of attempts: 5

HS Final exam vimgolf - 933 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: #133 / 244
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 339 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #74 / 84
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4595 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #671 / 1121
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2482 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: #361 / 494
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #251 / 329
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #367 / 535
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #793 / 1291
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #422 / 1559
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1101 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #136 / 289
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1495 / 1910
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #554 / 865
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 901 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #245 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

Swap the operands under comparison - 318 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #61 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3645 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #1108 / 1182
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #466 / 908
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #527 / 710
Number of attempts: 1

Array propagate - 346 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #65 / 123
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #379 / 708
Number of attempts: 6

Learn some german verbs - 547 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: #65 / 135
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 - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #259 / 1277
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 1018 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: #169 / 278
Number of attempts: 3

Create a table - 342 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #58 / 107
Number of attempts: 7

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 884 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 / 296
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 456 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #77 / 126
Number of attempts: 5

Order and join - 1022 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #140 / 264
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2248 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: #519 / 686
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 680 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: #126 / 212
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 181 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #30 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 873 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: #131 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 681 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #236 / 262
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 421 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #42 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #674 / 1196
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #278 / 353
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 342 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #69 / 89
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1690 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #139 / 454
Number of attempts: 9

ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #84 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

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: #225 / 251
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2399 / 4218
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 245 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #123 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #878 / 1143
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #132 / 358
Number of attempts: 3

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 261 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #60 / 118
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #126 / 273
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1185 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #222 / 306
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2044 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: #381 / 591
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 384 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #79 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #669 / 1091
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1177 / 3986
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 387 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: #52 / 138
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 441 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #182 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 225 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #24 / 77
Number of attempts: 5

Prefixes and suffixes - 664 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #160 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 193 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #45 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #111 / 199
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #266 / 366
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 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: #316 / 456
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 483 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #136 / 200
Number of attempts: 4

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1151 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #129 / 456
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2629 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #511 / 775
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1068 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #359 / 424
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 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: #250 / 279
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #651 / 1759
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #301 / 365
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 - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #70 / 658
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1288 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 / 416
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 865 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #364 / 464
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 445 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #79 / 145
Number of attempts: 4

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 514 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #150 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1080 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #215 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 813 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #145 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1766 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #341 / 648
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1572 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #497 / 610
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1962 / 3879
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7612 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 42
Position: #1055 / 1875
Number of attempts: 1