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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1253 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #36 / 412
Number of attempts: 2

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 599 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: #30 / 145
Number of attempts: 3

delete swap - 1534 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #6 / 482
Number of attempts: 3

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1184 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 / 249
Number of attempts: 17

Fix the shell script! - 2344 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #23 / 542
Number of attempts: 11

Visual block training - 1005 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #20 / 185
Number of attempts: 20

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1578 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #124 / 525
Number of attempts: 3

Wikitext headings to markdown - 980 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #24 / 203
Number of attempts: 12

hello-world-vimgolf - 2361 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #183 / 667
Number of attempts: 4

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 841 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #33 / 257
Number of attempts: 5

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 261 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #14 / 61
Number of attempts: 12

Fill in the chess board - 905 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 / 175
Number of attempts: 20

Learn to ask for :help - 541 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #17 / 122
Number of attempts: 9

Plotting some variables in python - 1567 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 / 334
Number of attempts: 15

Transpose a python matrix - 845 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #13 / 134
Number of attempts: 18

Lowercase first characters - 467 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 / 175
Number of attempts: 8

simple replacements - 1662 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #59 / 371
Number of attempts: 8

Inverting Lines - 1837 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #159 / 498
Number of attempts: 6

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 320 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #16 / 95
Number of attempts: 10

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 306 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #91 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1334 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #49 / 308
Number of attempts: 10

Staircase - 137 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: #29 / 31
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 292 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 / 80
Number of attempts: 5

Put a cross in the square - 203 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #8 / 84
Number of attempts: 5

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #39 / 370
Number of attempts: 17

HS Final exam vimgolf - 864 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 / 227
Number of attempts: 11

Easy modification of ssh config - 335 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #20 / 104
Number of attempts: 9

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 281 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: #30 / 53
Number of attempts: 8

Mr. Hacker - 78 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 / 32
Number of attempts: 5

Python: Def to Lambda - 423 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #68 / 149
Number of attempts: 4

Turn the x - 297 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #15 / 77
Number of attempts: 5

Rural Post - 4368 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #180 / 1072
Number of attempts: 10

Satisfy the go linter - 2329 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 / 457
Number of attempts: 7

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 930 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #79 / 296
Number of attempts: 6

Multiline to Single Line - 668 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #202 / 292
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 652 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 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 747 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 / 166
Number of attempts: 8

Capitalize the Names - 361 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 / 91
Number of attempts: 4

Yo To Hello - 1115 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #364 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1098 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 / 225
Number of attempts: 11

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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 / 7364
Number of attempts: 5

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 877 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #52 / 254
Number of attempts: 9

Get mail address from outlook format - 621 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #76 / 196
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 151 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 / 51
Number of attempts: 4

Add text at some column - 154 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #18 / 60
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #351 / 1257
Number of attempts: 5

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #421 / 1517
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #748 / 3842
Number of attempts: 8

Right Align Part of the line - 117 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 / 38
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules (ver.2) - 211 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #22 / 56
Number of attempts: 7

Wget failed to download redirections - 184 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 / 63
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #105 / 569
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #780 / 1879
Number of attempts: 4

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #14 / 840
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 302 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #24 / 68
Number of attempts: 9

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 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 / 244
Number of attempts: 8

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #736 / 3044
Number of attempts: 4

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #30 / 516
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #311 / 630
Number of attempts: 10

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #484 / 1144
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #151 / 827
Number of attempts: 6

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #266 / 386
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #444 / 1865
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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 / 376
Number of attempts: 6

From argument to object - 1474 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 / 450
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #81 / 700
Number of attempts: 8

Copy three lines - 2840 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 / 635
Number of attempts: 8

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #261 / 744
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #692 / 1585
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #236 / 695
Number of attempts: 5

comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 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 / 314
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1480 / 4164
Number of attempts: 5

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #277 / 581
Number of attempts: 4

Interweave two blocks of text - 631 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 / 211
Number of attempts: 12

Missing Library and a Typo - 856 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: #99 / 209
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #260 / 1258
Number of attempts: 6

Add to end of each line... kinda - 325 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: #152 / 171
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #79 / 261
Number of attempts: 12

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #597 / 2101
Number of attempts: 5

Triangle of arrows - 171 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 / 40
Number of attempts: 16

Sort files from hosts - 179 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #20 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 956 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #75 / 255
Number of attempts: 6

Align commas - 1049 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 / 241
Number of attempts: 14

Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #63 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2165 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 / 662
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2004 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #197 / 496
Number of attempts: 5

Reorder the groups - 1137 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #90 / 259
Number of attempts: 3

Restore order to the alphabet - 188 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #10 / 68
Number of attempts: 8

O Christmas Tree - 108 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 32
Position: #37 / 42
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #43 / 443
Number of attempts: 17

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #92 / 266
Number of attempts: 10

Swap assigned value - 626 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #101 / 250
Number of attempts: 5

Entries sort - 81 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: #26 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #517 / 1186
Number of attempts: 6

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #279 / 343
Number of attempts: 4

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #148 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

swap or reverse - 115 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #51 / 66
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #109 / 440
Number of attempts: 6

remove all lines in first part - 190 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 / 65
Number of attempts: 9

Shuffled numbers - 234 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 / 93
Number of attempts: 6

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #146 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

Remove hard line breaks - 67 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 / 32
Number of attempts: 7

Condensed Cases - 788 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 / 242
Number of attempts: 6

Pretty format for variable declarations - 155 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #20 / 62
Number of attempts: 8

Happy TvvO - 411 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #148 / 202
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1122 / 4161
Number of attempts: 7

learn vim in short time - 232 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #122 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

vim1001 - 275 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 / 107
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #308 / 1129
Number of attempts: 5

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #57 / 351
Number of attempts: 7

Suffix sort - 254 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 / 65
Number of attempts: 9

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #61 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Change name of a variable - 169 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 / 132
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 438 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #57 / 154
Number of attempts: 5

120 Degrees - 468 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #36 / 143
Number of attempts: 8

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #125 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 230 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #12 / 100
Number of attempts: 6

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #152 / 293
Number of attempts: 12

Don't know what this is - 1978 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 / 578
Number of attempts: 5

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #216 / 431
Number of attempts: 5

Mess in revision history - 1161 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #67 / 247
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.... - 339 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 / 125
Number of attempts: 9

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1584 / 3667
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #176 / 692
Number of attempts: 14

Counting in binary - 477 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 47
Position: #95 / 113
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1594 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 / 511
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 - 3125 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 / 1072
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 - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2741 / 3946
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 1012 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 / 302
Number of attempts: 8

Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #185 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

Word frequency alignment - 274 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 / 157
Number of attempts: 5

Coordinates placeholder - 62 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #6 / 36
Number of attempts: 5

Prefixes and suffixes - 593 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #22 / 193
Number of attempts: 8

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 58 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 / 36
Number of attempts: 2

Python: Lots of function arguments - 102 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #17 / 46
Number of attempts: 8

Checkerboard case pattern - 148 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #47 / 58
Number of attempts: 2

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #47 / 191
Number of attempts: 5

Printable ASCII characters - 124 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 / 42
Number of attempts: 13

A simple change - 442 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #46 / 189
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 169 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 / 101
Number of attempts: 6

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 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 / 188
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #268 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 163
Number of attempts: 9

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 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 / 439
Number of attempts: 8

Stairs Indenting - 448 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #56 / 193
Number of attempts: 9

Unwrap the text of an email message - 185 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 / 72
Number of attempts: 8

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 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 / 473
Number of attempts: 13

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 165 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 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 98 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 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #130 / 441
Number of attempts: 4

Alphabet soup - 419 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #14 / 103
Number of attempts: 8

Enharmonic Equivalents - 56 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #34 / 35
Number of attempts: 1

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 227 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 / 68
Number of attempts: 13

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #126 / 768
Number of attempts: 14

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #183 / 652
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #131 / 403
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and double space - 489 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #67 / 194
Number of attempts: 4

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #120 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

un-C-escape string - 56 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #46 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #650 / 1736
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #302 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #11 / 185
Number of attempts: 23

Replacing some words - 419 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #48 / 148
Number of attempts: 4

Sort the cardinal numbers - 293 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #54 / 146
Number of attempts: 5

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #195 / 640
Number of attempts: 7

Line Zipper - 450 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #18 / 210
Number of attempts: 6

remove dupes from array - 1336 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 / 331
Number of attempts: 9

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 507 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 / 148
Number of attempts: 21

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 156 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 - 363 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #43 / 114
Number of attempts: 10

Happy New Year! - 143 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 38
Position: #51 / 57
Number of attempts: 7

imports alignment (python) - 661 entries

Align as one import per line.

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

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 262 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #21 / 97
Number of attempts: 14

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 215 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #39 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

HTML to Haml - 842 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #44 / 202
Number of attempts: 12

Reformat long lines - 341 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 - 473 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #9 / 202
Number of attempts: 5

Insert a Markdown link - 431 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #41 / 143
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #71 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 148 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 / 69
Number of attempts: 8

The holy-grail may help - 345 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #151 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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 / 401
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 1912 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 / 500
Number of attempts: 8

A Simple One - 1001 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 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 371 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #27 / 134
Number of attempts: 7

Reverse and count - 456 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 / 172
Number of attempts: 2

Letters are numbers - 150 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 - 237 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #37 / 85
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 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 / 230
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #49 / 454
Number of attempts: 3

Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #44 / 401
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 457 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #8 / 175
Number of attempts: 6

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #263 / 512
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 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 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #151 / 233
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 198 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #119 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #121 / 338
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat a C golf submission - 559 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: #116 / 200
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse characters in a line - 709 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 / 249
Number of attempts: 9

Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #26 / 198
Number of attempts: 6

Get rid of html tags - 368 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 / 217
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #197 / 558
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #241 / 529
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 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 / 384
Number of attempts: 10

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #140 / 736
Number of attempts: 12

Flodder-challenge - 1118 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #20 / 311
Number of attempts: 10

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 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 / 3581
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 50
Position: #1336 / 1616
Number of attempts: 1