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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 851 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #21 / 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: 38
Position: #23 / 108
Number of attempts: 3

delete swap - 1095 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #6 / 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: #22 / 207
Number of attempts: 17

Fix the shell script! - 1728 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #23 / 418
Number of attempts: 11

Visual block training - 780 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #13 / 146
Number of attempts: 20

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: #118 / 458
Number of attempts: 3

Wikitext headings to markdown - 781 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #24 / 172
Number of attempts: 12

hello-world-vimgolf - 1981 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #183 / 564
Number of attempts: 4

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 745 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #33 / 230
Number of attempts: 5

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 212 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #14 / 53
Number of attempts: 12

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: #17 / 155
Number of attempts: 20

Learn to ask for :help - 461 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #17 / 107
Number of attempts: 9

Plotting some variables in python - 1396 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #38 / 295
Number of attempts: 15

Transpose a python matrix - 684 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #13 / 117
Number of attempts: 18

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: #22 / 152
Number of attempts: 8

simple replacements - 1264 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #59 / 283
Number of attempts: 8

Inverting Lines - 1562 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #159 / 423
Number of attempts: 6

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: #16 / 80
Number of attempts: 10

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 237 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #91 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1103 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #49 / 261
Number of attempts: 10

Staircase - 83 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 49
Position: #23 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

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: #31 / 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: #8 / 76
Number of attempts: 5

swap number pairs - 1871 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #39 / 346
Number of attempts: 17

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: #23 / 215
Number of attempts: 11

Easy modification of ssh config - 305 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #20 / 95
Number of attempts: 9

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 263 entries

Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #27 / 50
Number of attempts: 8

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: #11 / 31
Number of attempts: 5

Python: Def to Lambda - 410 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #68 / 142
Number of attempts: 4

Turn the x - 275 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #15 / 71
Number of attempts: 5

Rural Post - 4254 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #180 / 1044
Number of attempts: 10

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: #141 / 422
Number of attempts: 7

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: #79 / 267
Number of attempts: 6

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: #202 / 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: #129 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

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: 18
Position: #55 / 160
Number of attempts: 8

Capitalize the Names - 330 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #41 / 84
Number of attempts: 4

Yo To Hello - 1081 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #364 / 497
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #42 / 214
Number of attempts: 11

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: #2355 / 7308
Number of attempts: 5

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: 20
Position: #52 / 247
Number of attempts: 9

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: #76 / 190
Number of attempts: 3

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: 16
Position: #24 / 48
Number of attempts: 4

Add text at some column - 147 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #18 / 56
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #351 / 1247
Number of attempts: 5

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: #421 / 1493
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18497 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #748 / 3815
Number of attempts: 8

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: #18 / 32
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules (ver.2) - 197 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #22 / 53
Number of attempts: 7

Wget failed to download redirections - 181 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #11 / 62
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values inside brackets - 2442 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #105 / 565
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4651 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #780 / 1864
Number of attempts: 4

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: #14 / 827
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 295 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #24 / 66
Number of attempts: 9

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: #57 / 235
Number of attempts: 8

Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #736 / 3023
Number of attempts: 4

Bad Copy Syntax - 1952 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #30 / 502
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #311 / 625
Number of attempts: 10

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #484 / 1128
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3511 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #151 / 789
Number of attempts: 6

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 649 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #266 / 374
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7756 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #444 / 1847
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1453 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #93 / 372
Number of attempts: 6

From argument to object - 1441 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #143 / 441
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #81 / 691
Number of attempts: 8

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: #180 / 630
Number of attempts: 8

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: #261 / 737
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: #692 / 1574
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #236 / 689
Number of attempts: 5

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: #149 / 305
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1480 / 4144
Number of attempts: 5

Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #277 / 575
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #26 / 210
Number of attempts: 12

Missing Library and a Typo - 838 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #98 / 206
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5489 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #260 / 1245
Number of attempts: 6

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: 13
Position: #146 / 164
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1336 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #79 / 255
Number of attempts: 12

Vice versa - 7643 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #597 / 2072
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: 14
Position: #12 / 35
Number of attempts: 16

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: #20 / 70
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 913 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #75 / 248
Number of attempts: 6

Align commas - 1046 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #92 / 238
Number of attempts: 14

Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #63 / 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: #344 / 650
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 1941 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #191 / 479
Number of attempts: 5

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: #90 / 255
Number of attempts: 3

Restore order to the alphabet - 183 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #10 / 66
Number of attempts: 8

O Christmas Tree - 102 entries

Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).

Best score: 22
Best player score: 32
Position: #36 / 41
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2321 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #43 / 434
Number of attempts: 17

Mirror Symmetry - 787 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #92 / 264
Number of attempts: 10

Swap assigned value - 581 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #101 / 240
Number of attempts: 5

Entries sort - 80 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 37
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #517 / 1176
Number of attempts: 6

VimGolfNight - 520 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #279 / 338
Number of attempts: 4

camel riding - 760 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #147 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

swap or reverse - 105 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #51 / 63
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #109 / 436
Number of attempts: 6

remove all lines in first part - 189 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #11 / 64
Number of attempts: 9

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: #37 / 91
Number of attempts: 6

Mute the second method of this script - 444 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #146 / 236
Number of attempts: 2

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: #8 / 29
Number of attempts: 7

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: #62 / 239
Number of attempts: 6

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: #19 / 58
Number of attempts: 8

Happy TvvO - 394 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #148 / 196
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1122 / 4136
Number of attempts: 7

learn vim in short time - 222 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #122 / 153
Number of attempts: 1

vim1001 - 274 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #6 / 106
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3149 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #308 / 1121
Number of attempts: 5

Count both ways - 985 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #57 / 347
Number of attempts: 7

Suffix sort - 244 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #8 / 64
Number of attempts: 9

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 239 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #61 / 113
Number of attempts: 2

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: #120 / 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: 13
Position: #57 / 153
Number of attempts: 5

120 Degrees - 457 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #36 / 142
Number of attempts: 8

Gray area - 712 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #124 / 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: #12 / 98
Number of attempts: 6

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #152 / 292
Number of attempts: 12

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: 11
Position: #131 / 574
Number of attempts: 5

Where should I put the Newline? - 853 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #216 / 427
Number of attempts: 5

Mess in revision history - 1157 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #67 / 245
Number of attempts: 21

Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #20 / 101
Number of attempts: 4

Going underground.... - 315 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #5 / 122
Number of attempts: 9

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10566 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1584 / 3647
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3403 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #176 / 686
Number of attempts: 14

Counting in binary - 443 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 47
Position: #93 / 111
Number of attempts: 2

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: #35 / 507
Number of attempts: 9

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: #7 / 31
Number of attempts: 4

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: #349 / 1060
Number of attempts: 6

Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 69 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #5 / 28
Number of attempts: 9

Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2729 / 3932
Number of attempts: 1

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: #92 / 300
Number of attempts: 8

Delete unwanted lines - 390 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #185 / 223
Number of attempts: 1

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: 5
Position: #111 / 152
Number of attempts: 5

Coordinates placeholder - 61 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #6 / 35
Number of attempts: 5

Prefixes and suffixes - 586 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #22 / 189
Number of attempts: 8

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: 15
Position: #8 / 34
Number of attempts: 2

Python: Lots of function arguments - 99 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 13
Position: #18 / 45
Number of attempts: 8

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: 24
Position: #46 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

NATO phonetic alphabet - 492 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #47 / 187
Number of attempts: 5

Printable ASCII characters - 120 entries

From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #9 / 40
Number of attempts: 13

A simple change - 433 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #46 / 186
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 165 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #16 / 99
Number of attempts: 6

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 394 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #3 / 184
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: #268 / 350
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 569 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 159
Number of attempts: 9

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: #122 / 432
Number of attempts: 8

Stairs Indenting - 440 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #55 / 189
Number of attempts: 9

Unwrap the text of an email message - 180 entries

Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #31 / 71
Number of attempts: 8

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: 20
Position: #71 / 469
Number of attempts: 13

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: 24
Position: #25 / 55
Number of attempts: 2

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: #57 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1053 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #130 / 431
Number of attempts: 4

Alphabet soup - 402 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #14 / 98
Number of attempts: 8

Enharmonic Equivalents - 55 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #34 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 218 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #8 / 66
Number of attempts: 13

replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #126 / 756
Number of attempts: 14

Switch function arguments - 2002 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #183 / 634
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 975 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #131 / 394
Number of attempts: 2

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: #67 / 190
Number of attempts: 4

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: #139 / 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: #120 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

un-C-escape string - 55 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #46 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 4997 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #650 / 1724
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 538 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #302 / 346
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 952 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #11 / 183
Number of attempts: 23

Replacing some words - 418 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #48 / 147
Number of attempts: 4

Sort the cardinal numbers - 284 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #54 / 143
Number of attempts: 5

Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #193 / 636
Number of attempts: 7

Line Zipper - 449 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #18 / 209
Number of attempts: 6

remove dupes from array - 1324 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #83 / 328
Number of attempts: 9

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 505 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #27 / 146
Number of attempts: 21

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: 26
Position: #51 / 67
Number of attempts: 7

Sort entries based on date - 359 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #43 / 113
Number of attempts: 10

Happy New Year! - 139 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 38
Position: #51 / 56
Number of attempts: 7

imports alignment (python) - 657 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 44
Position: #183 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 252 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #21 / 95
Number of attempts: 14

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: 19
Position: #39 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

HTML to Haml - 838 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #44 / 201
Number of attempts: 12

Reformat long lines - 336 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #28 / 130
Number of attempts: 5

Generate English Alphabets - 451 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #9 / 197
Number of attempts: 5

Insert a Markdown link - 422 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #40 / 142
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #71 / 634
Number of attempts: 1

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 145 entries

Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #29 / 68
Number of attempts: 8

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: #151 / 202
Number of attempts: 3

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: #103 / 394
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 1823 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #65 / 482
Number of attempts: 8

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: #539 / 633
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 366 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #27 / 132
Number of attempts: 7

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: #11 / 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: 26
Position: #35 / 73
Number of attempts: 7

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 232 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #37 / 84
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 compat - 608 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #67 / 229
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 822 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #49 / 449
Number of attempts: 3

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #44 / 390
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 442 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #8 / 173
Number of attempts: 6

The Cake is a Lie - 1260 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #263 / 505
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: #112 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 444 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #151 / 228
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 195 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #119 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 996 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #121 / 335
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat a C golf submission - 546 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 33
Position: #115 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse characters in a line - 696 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #18 / 246
Number of attempts: 9

Reformat most common surnames - 612 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #26 / 192
Number of attempts: 6

Get rid of html tags - 356 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #13 / 213
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1416 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #197 / 540
Number of attempts: 2

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: #241 / 505
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1220 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #115 / 358
Number of attempts: 10

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3107 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #133 / 691
Number of attempts: 12

Flodder-challenge - 987 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #20 / 289
Number of attempts: 10

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: #668 / 3482
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6251 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 50
Position: #1290 / 1544
Number of attempts: 1