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HS exam question - 1124 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 50
Position: #39 / 306
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat symbols in list - 1021 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #13 / 233
Number of attempts: 5

Fizzbuzz - 343 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 47
Best player score: 61
Position: #31 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Substraction (bis) - 383 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 36
Position: #57 / 80
Number of attempts: 3

Changing around text with citations - 197 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 33
Position: #21 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

Poorly indented Python comments - 866 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 33
Position: #93 / 168
Number of attempts: 4

Many duplicates - 851 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #28 / 287
Number of attempts: 2

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 451 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 45
Position: #56 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1095 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #23 / 356
Number of attempts: 3

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 924 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: #33 / 207
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the shell script! - 1728 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 38
Position: #264 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 780 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 34
Position: #71 / 146
Number of attempts: 3

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1348 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #121 / 458
Number of attempts: 4

Wikitext headings to markdown - 781 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 29
Position: #106 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 1981 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #200 / 564
Number of attempts: 5

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 745 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #41 / 230
Number of attempts: 4

Fill in the chess board - 737 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #22 / 155
Number of attempts: 5

Learn to ask for :help - 461 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #60 / 107
Number of attempts: 3

Lowercase first characters - 421 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: #26 / 152
Number of attempts: 2

simple replacements - 1264 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #62 / 283
Number of attempts: 11

Inverting Lines - 1562 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #164 / 423
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 292 entries

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

Best score: 38
Best player score: 45
Position: #34 / 85
Number of attempts: 2

Python dataclasses - 796 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #46 / 204
Number of attempts: 5

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 283 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #17 / 80
Number of attempts: 6

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 237 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #90 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1103 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #78 / 261
Number of attempts: 5

Enumerate Bullets - 253 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #34 / 67
Number of attempts: 5

Put a cross in the square - 175 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #9 / 76
Number of attempts: 4

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: 21
Position: #25 / 215
Number of attempts: 3

Mr. Hacker - 76 entries

Elvin is hacker. He has piece of users database from some social net site. Recently he installed Vim, and he wants to convert CSV DB to specific format `key=value' where `key' is login and `value' is password, but password in DB is encrypted in ROT13. Help him.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #13 / 31
Number of attempts: 5

Python: Def to Lambda - 410 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #73 / 142
Number of attempts: 5

Turn the x - 275 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #17 / 71
Number of attempts: 8

Format the CSS - 109 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: 55
Position: #33 / 40
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4254 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #182 / 1044
Number of attempts: 4

Levenshtein distance - 88 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: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #6 / 31
Number of attempts: 5

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: 20
Position: #142 / 422
Number of attempts: 6

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: 8
Position: #80 / 267
Number of attempts: 3

Multiline to Single Line - 585 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #204 / 260
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 624 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #130 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 720 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #139 / 160
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1081 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #365 / 497
Number of attempts: 2

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1054 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #161 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33136 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: 22
Position: #2358 / 7308
Number of attempts: 6

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 850 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #97 / 247
Number of attempts: 3

Get mail address from outlook format - 604 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #77 / 190
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 138 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #34 / 48
Number of attempts: 2

Add text at some column - 147 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #19 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #960 / 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: #423 / 1493
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18497 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1993 / 3815
Number of attempts: 4

Right Align Part of the line - 101 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #19 / 32
Number of attempts: 5

Quote modules - 1024 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #104 / 263
Number of attempts: 3

Quote modules (ver.2) - 197 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 32
Position: #48 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

Separate the lines - 171 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #56 / 87
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 185 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #59 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2442 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #346 / 565
Number of attempts: 2

Unsemantic linewrapping - 861 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #95 / 218
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4651 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #781 / 1864
Number of attempts: 2

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: 12
Position: #15 / 827
Number of attempts: 8

Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #68 / 246
Number of attempts: 4

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1124 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #58 / 235
Number of attempts: 3

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: 19
Position: #24 / 96
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #737 / 3023
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #506 / 625
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #485 / 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: 13
Position: #320 / 789
Number of attempts: 3

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 32 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #25 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

Extract wireshark capture filter - 193 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #44 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7756 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #445 / 1847
Number of attempts: 2

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 121 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #33 / 42
Number of attempts: 3

Triangular Numbers - 88 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #17 / 25
Number of attempts: 6

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 719 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #106 / 170
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #291 / 691
Number of attempts: 5

Copy three lines - 2824 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #181 / 630
Number of attempts: 8

Convert Application Output to CSV - 180 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #45 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2269 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #262 / 737
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 136 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #31 / 66
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4749 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #695 / 1574
Number of attempts: 3

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 527 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: 31
Position: #36 / 124
Number of attempts: 5

Number Sort - 299 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: #127 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1037 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: 9
Position: #148 / 305
Number of attempts: 6

Flip the bit - 115 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #34 / 67
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1481 / 4144
Number of attempts: 4

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: #63 / 129
Number of attempts: 3

Todo list specification - 373 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: #93 / 170
Number of attempts: 2

Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 35 entries

sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #3 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

For all cases. - 131 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #80 / 94
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 247 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #121 / 132
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 366 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #113 / 137
Number of attempts: 5

Back to the roots - 47 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #27 / 33
Number of attempts: 1

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 55 entries

I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #26 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5489 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #261 / 1245
Number of attempts: 6

Simple addition - 301 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #56 / 112
Number of attempts: 2

create arrows in a list - 92 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #56 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

Create a table - 309 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #47 / 100
Number of attempts: 4

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: #153 / 281
Number of attempts: 2

Nesting SASS - 257 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #44 / 91
Number of attempts: 7

Add to end of each line... kinda - 313 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: #100 / 164
Number of attempts: 3

Combines all items - 292 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #80 / 132
Number of attempts: 5

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 226 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: #37 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap text in quotes - 348 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #46 / 119
Number of attempts: 6

Fun With The Diagonal - 99 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #72 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1336 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #133 / 255
Number of attempts: 2

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #54 / 75
Number of attempts: 3

Free hyphen! - 156 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: 9
Position: #30 / 84
Number of attempts: 4

Paragraph sort - 421 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #43 / 122
Number of attempts: 5

Triangle of arrows - 144 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 25
Position: #26 / 35
Number of attempts: 2

Vim's not included features - 183 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #9 / 59
Number of attempts: 10

Sorting a glossary - 116 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: #67 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Sort files from hosts - 167 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #21 / 70
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 913 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #135 / 248
Number of attempts: 4

Paragraph breaks - 497 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #89 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #361 / 414
Number of attempts: 3

Angular naming conventions - 285 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: 19
Position: #59 / 111
Number of attempts: 3

Change attribute to getter - 127 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #40 / 53
Number of attempts: 3

A grid of punctuation - 120 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #42 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 82 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #43 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #62 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #345 / 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: 14
Position: #64 / 197
Number of attempts: 6

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 129 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #41 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 959 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #85 / 238
Number of attempts: 5

Around the clock - 186 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #35 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 55 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 3
Best player score: 3
Position: #39 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 238 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #12 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 723 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #246 / 355
Number of attempts: 2

Song Transcription Oops - 227 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #54 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

change parenthesis - 267 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #85 / 151
Number of attempts: 2

Remove quotes after first field - 332 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #30 / 83
Number of attempts: 3

Put the months in order - 922 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #35 / 156
Number of attempts: 7

Separating firstname & lastname - 117 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #19 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1120 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #91 / 255
Number of attempts: 3

move titles next to url, in quotes - 497 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #13 / 131
Number of attempts: 5

Restore order to the alphabet - 183 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #11 / 66
Number of attempts: 7

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: 29
Position: #88 / 222
Number of attempts: 3

Assign numbers to fields - 94 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: #24 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 787 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #91 / 264
Number of attempts: 6

unknown command - 151 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #60 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 581 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #102 / 240
Number of attempts: 5

From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #55 / 154
Number of attempts: 4

Cartesian product - 218 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 44
Position: #78 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 349 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 88
Position: #81 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #518 / 1176
Number of attempts: 6

VimGolfNight - 520 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #280 / 338
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #291 / 436
Number of attempts: 5

Shuffled numbers - 225 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: #38 / 91
Number of attempts: 4

Remove hard line breaks - 61 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #9 / 29
Number of attempts: 3

Custom McCarthy sequence - 35 entries

Generate the first one hundred and twenty numbers (starting with n=1). See here for some inspiration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthy_91_function

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #13 / 14
Number of attempts: 1

Refactoring useless Method away - 91 entries

Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement

Best score: 47
Best player score: 60
Position: #18 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

Test everything! - 152 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #22 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #63 / 239
Number of attempts: 6

increment by column in XML - 146 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #8 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

Square numbers - 95 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 39
Number of attempts: 4

Pretty format for variable declarations - 148 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #20 / 58
Number of attempts: 7

Happy TvvO - 394 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #149 / 196
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1230 / 4136
Number of attempts: 12

learn vim in short time - 222 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #124 / 153
Number of attempts: 1

Subtraction - 177 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #16 / 60
Number of attempts: 7

Count both ways - 985 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #86 / 347
Number of attempts: 4

Change name of a variable - 168 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: #121 / 131
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 434 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #150 / 153
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 712 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #126 / 264
Number of attempts: 4

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 223 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #13 / 98
Number of attempts: 5

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #153 / 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: 12
Position: #235 / 574
Number of attempts: 3

Where should I put the Newline? - 853 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #217 / 427
Number of attempts: 3

Piphilology - 131 entries

Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

Best score: 29
Best player score: 38
Position: #43 / 51
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1157 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 37
Position: #218 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

Carriage return - 42 entries

I have some raw data from terminal output which uses carriege return for formatting. Carriage return sets the pointer to the first character on the line, and subsequent characters will overwrite what was there before. The challange is to simulate the terminal behaviour in vim. I'm kind of unsure if I should have skipped lines 9 and 15, since there might be some interesting solutions which are not that generic. Happy Golfing!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 30
Position: #16 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Split the words - 356 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: 34
Position: #37 / 108
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10566 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1585 / 3647
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1582 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: 9
Position: #36 / 507
Number of attempts: 5

Untangle my tail, please! - 57 entries

You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #8 / 31
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3088 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: 14
Position: #350 / 1060
Number of attempts: 4

Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 69 entries

Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #28 / 28
Number of attempts: 2

Number an outline - 246 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 57
Position: #43 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #8 / 3932
Number of attempts: 4

paste indent correction - JS - 99 entries

You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #38 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

Hole-in-one - 985 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 / 300
Number of attempts: 5

Delete unwanted lines - 390 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #183 / 223
Number of attempts: 3

Fibonacci Triangles - 49 entries

Triangles

Best score: 40
Best player score: 65
Position: #18 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

Lookahead and Lookbehind - 67 entries

Look everywhere

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #27 / 29
Number of attempts: 2

Word frequency alignment - 263 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: 6
Position: #142 / 152
Number of attempts: 4

Minimalist Limerick - 510 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #33 / 169
Number of attempts: 4

fib.c cleanup - 65 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #46 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

REDRUM - 147 entries

If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #20 / 60
Number of attempts: 6

Enumerate words - 241 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #33 / 86
Number of attempts: 3

Groups magic - 145 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #66 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

Sort by your own sum - 69 entries

Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #4 / 27
Number of attempts: 7

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 53 entries

The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #33 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 274 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #190 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

Checkerboard case pattern - 144 entries

All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #36 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

NATO phonetic alphabet - 492 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #48 / 187
Number of attempts: 3

A simple change - 433 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #47 / 186
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 638 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #267 / 350
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 70 entries

Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)

Best score: 20
Best player score: 42
Position: #29 / 30
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: 8
Position: #123 / 432
Number of attempts: 6

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 99 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #8 / 44
Number of attempts: 5

Stairs Indenting - 440 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #23 / 189
Number of attempts: 5

Saving the hashes(#) - 1974 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: 21
Position: #125 / 469
Number of attempts: 5

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 157 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #4 / 55
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 81 entries

A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #58 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 45 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #26 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #220 / 756
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2002 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #184 / 634
Number of attempts: 7

Append semicolon after expressions - 975 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #132 / 394
Number of attempts: 5

Reverse and double space - 471 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #68 / 190
Number of attempts: 3

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: 15
Position: #140 / 265
Number of attempts: 3

Remove semicolons after expressions - 584 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #119 / 247
Number of attempts: 7

The meaning - 538 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #303 / 346
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #194 / 636
Number of attempts: 3

Line Zipper - 449 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #17 / 209
Number of attempts: 5

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 151 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #35 / 67
Number of attempts: 3

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 209 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #68 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #72 / 634
Number of attempts: 2

The holy-grail may help - 334 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #153 / 202
Number of attempts: 2

Assignment Alignment - 824 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #92 / 215
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 973 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: #543 / 633
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 432 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: #12 / 168
Number of attempts: 2

Letters are numbers - 149 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 30
Position: #41 / 73
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 822 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #361 / 449
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 617 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #46 / 390
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 502 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 41
Position: #122 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 442 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #38 / 173
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 486 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 / 228
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 357 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #72 / 129
Number of attempts: 4

Almost encrypted - 195 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #120 / 143
Number of attempts: 2

Remember FizzBuzz? - 634 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 55
Position: #62 / 173
Number of attempts: 3

Deleting folded text - 325 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: 17
Position: #5 / 111
Number of attempts: 7

Sort and add attributes - 1250 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #245 / 505
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 11897 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #674 / 3482
Number of attempts: 3

Alex
Twitter: @AlexanderHeatl2

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Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1124 entries

Reformat symbols in list - 1021 entries

Fizzbuzz - 343 entries

Substraction (bis) - 383 entries

Changing around text with citations - 197 entries

Poorly indented Python comments - 866 entries

Many duplicates - 851 entries

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 451 entries

delete swap - 1095 entries

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 924 entries

Fix the shell script! - 1728 entries

Visual block training - 780 entries

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1348 entries

Wikitext headings to markdown - 781 entries

hello-world-vimgolf - 1981 entries

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 745 entries

Fill in the chess board - 737 entries

Learn to ask for :help - 461 entries

Lowercase first characters - 421 entries

simple replacements - 1264 entries

Inverting Lines - 1562 entries

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 292 entries

Python dataclasses - 796 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 283 entries

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 237 entries

Modernise code - 1103 entries

Enumerate Bullets - 253 entries

Put a cross in the square - 175 entries

HS Final exam vimgolf - 815 entries

Mr. Hacker - 76 entries

Python: Def to Lambda - 410 entries

Turn the x - 275 entries

Format the CSS - 109 entries

Rural Post - 4254 entries

Levenshtein distance - 88 entries

Satisfy the go linter - 2076 entries

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 845 entries

Multiline to Single Line - 585 entries

xrandr outputs and dashes - 624 entries

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 720 entries

Yo To Hello - 1081 entries

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1054 entries

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33136 entries

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 850 entries

Get mail address from outlook format - 604 entries

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 138 entries

Add text at some column - 147 entries

Swap values - 4500 entries

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries

One number per line - 18497 entries

Right Align Part of the line - 101 entries

Quote modules - 1024 entries

Quote modules (ver.2) - 197 entries

Separate the lines - 171 entries

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 185 entries

Swap values inside brackets - 2442 entries

Unsemantic linewrapping - 861 entries

V to the i - 4651 entries

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2793 entries

Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1124 entries

Swap the operands under comparison - 266 entries

Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

Com(m)a Trouble - 3511 entries

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 32 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter - 193 entries

Box it - 7756 entries

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 121 entries

Triangular Numbers - 88 entries

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 719 entries

Every other line - 2856 entries

Copy three lines - 2824 entries

Convert Application Output to CSV - 180 entries

Extract argument from function - 2269 entries

Start coding format - 136 entries