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Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1345 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 47
Position: #9 / 365
Number of attempts: 10

Reformat symbols in list - 1321 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #21 / 294
Number of attempts: 5

Poorly indented Python comments - 1079 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #25 / 190
Number of attempts: 7

Many duplicates - 1123 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #13 / 364
Number of attempts: 2

delete swap - 1379 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #145 / 433
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1093 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 29
Position: #39 / 233
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the shell script! - 1974 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #33 / 476
Number of attempts: 10

Visual block training - 912 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #45 / 167
Number of attempts: 8

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1466 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #25 / 494
Number of attempts: 5

Wikitext headings to markdown - 906 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #30 / 190
Number of attempts: 6

hello-world-vimgolf - 2195 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #216 / 625
Number of attempts: 3

Fill in the chess board - 843 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: #25 / 169
Number of attempts: 5

Plotting some variables in python - 1505 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: #42 / 317
Number of attempts: 8

Transpose a python matrix - 784 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #32 / 129
Number of attempts: 8

simple replacements - 1396 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #65 / 310
Number of attempts: 3

Inverting Lines - 1683 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #169 / 458
Number of attempts: 5

Python dataclasses - 882 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #82 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 295 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #109 / 188
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1285 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 36
Position: #96 / 298
Number of attempts: 2

Enumerate Bullets - 279 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: #37 / 77
Number of attempts: 3

swap number pairs - 1945 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #44 / 359
Number of attempts: 15

HS Final exam vimgolf - 852 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: #28 / 224
Number of attempts: 4

Easy modification of ssh config - 335 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #21 / 104
Number of attempts: 5

Python: Def to Lambda - 421 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #76 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4319 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #184 / 1059
Number of attempts: 6

Satisfy the go linter - 2120 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: #143 / 430
Number of attempts: 6

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 858 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #82 / 272
Number of attempts: 2

Multiline to Single Line - 591 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #210 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

xrandr outputs and dashes - 639 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: #133 / 211
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 738 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: #56 / 165
Number of attempts: 3

Capitalize the Names - 359 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: #43 / 89
Number of attempts: 5

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1081 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: #43 / 219
Number of attempts: 8

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 866 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #53 / 250
Number of attempts: 3

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: #78 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

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: #25 / 51
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4517 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #355 / 1251
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6156 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #425 / 1507
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18574 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #754 / 3834
Number of attempts: 5

Quote modules - 1035 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #38 / 267
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values inside brackets - 2447 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #106 / 567
Number of attempts: 3

Unsemantic linewrapping - 874 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: #96 / 222
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4719 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #782 / 1875
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2827 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #17 / 836
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 297 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #25 / 67
Number of attempts: 5

Add string initializers to an enum - 851 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #69 / 251
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1150 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: #59 / 240
Number of attempts: 3

Swap the operands under comparison - 267 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #25 / 97
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10764 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #754 / 3036
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 1971 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #210 / 507
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2118 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #161 / 627
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3507 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #490 / 1136
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3595 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #157 / 804
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 664 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #276 / 379
Number of attempts: 2

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 125 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: 10
Position: #19 / 44
Number of attempts: 2

Cool or not? - 782 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #69 / 224
Number of attempts: 3

multiple cursor alternative - 1461 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: #94 / 375
Number of attempts: 4

From argument to object - 1451 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: #160 / 445
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 731 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #57 / 173
Number of attempts: 6

Every other line - 2877 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #82 / 698
Number of attempts: 7

Copy three lines - 2828 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #183 / 632
Number of attempts: 4

Array propagate - 319 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #25 / 115
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2292 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #263 / 740
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #703 / 1581
Number of attempts: 3

Across-Down Flip - 53 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #3 / 24
Number of attempts: 8

Number Sort - 301 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: #131 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2543 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #237 / 692
Number of attempts: 5

comment and uncomment code inline - 1050 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: #151 / 310
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11339 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1498 / 4157
Number of attempts: 4

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 91 entries

Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 36
Position: #17 / 41
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1797 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #278 / 579
Number of attempts: 1

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: #28 / 210
Number of attempts: 8

For all cases. - 139 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #81 / 99
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 255 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #39 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

Stairstep digits - 372 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #54 / 139
Number of attempts: 5

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 62 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: #27 / 36
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5521 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #262 / 1251
Number of attempts: 4

Simple addition - 306 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: #57 / 115
Number of attempts: 4

create arrows in a list - 100 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #58 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 934 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #96 / 263
Number of attempts: 4

Create a table - 325 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #48 / 104
Number of attempts: 3

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 837 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: #156 / 285
Number of attempts: 3

Nesting SASS - 259 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 17
Position: #78 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 316 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: #102 / 166
Number of attempts: 2

Combines all items - 302 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #82 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 230 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: 15
Position: #28 / 80
Number of attempts: 4

Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #47 / 120
Number of attempts: 3

underscore_to_camelCase - 160 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #30 / 79
Number of attempts: 5

Fun With The Diagonal - 100 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #73 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1368 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #135 / 260
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7720 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #605 / 2085
Number of attempts: 5

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #28 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

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: #31 / 84
Number of attempts: 2

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: #44 / 122
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting a glossary - 118 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: #69 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

Sort files from hosts - 177 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #22 / 73
Number of attempts: 5

Order and join - 924 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #76 / 251
Number of attempts: 4

Paragraph breaks - 500 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #44 / 164
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #297 / 414
Number of attempts: 2

Inner hyphens - 124 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #12 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

Replace and keep the case - 405 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #54 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Change attribute to getter - 132 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #29 / 56
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #103 / 181
Number of attempts: 2

Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #51 / 123
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: #94 / 241
Number of attempts: 5

Hello ${world} - 299 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #36 / 94
Number of attempts: 5

Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #65 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2152 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: #348 / 656
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 630 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: #65 / 201
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 1964 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #15 / 485
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #87 / 242
Number of attempts: 5

Around the clock - 188 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: #36 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

Join 'em - 244 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #14 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 730 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #248 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

Song Transcription Oops - 234 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: #55 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 278 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #88 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Remove quotes after first field - 343 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #31 / 86
Number of attempts: 8

Separating firstname & lastname - 117 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #6 / 54
Number of attempts: 4

Reorder the groups - 1129 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #92 / 258
Number of attempts: 4

Add Go XML to structure tags - 152 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #3 / 66
Number of attempts: 3

move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #28 / 135
Number of attempts: 4

Array transposition - 2359 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #44 / 441
Number of attempts: 7

Mirror Symmetry - 793 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #93 / 265
Number of attempts: 4

unknown command - 155 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #61 / 81
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 600 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #103 / 244
Number of attempts: 5

Binary and Increment - 43 entries

Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #8 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #56 / 154
Number of attempts: 6

Cartesian product - 218 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 31
Position: #32 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 352 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #23 / 83
Number of attempts: 15

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: 14
Position: #20 / 37
Number of attempts: 3

Simple format (2) - 328 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #18 / 68
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4238 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #520 / 1180
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 524 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #283 / 339
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 310 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #79 / 147
Number of attempts: 3

Interleave lines - 143 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #8 / 56
Number of attempts: 9

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #24 / 86
Number of attempts: 7

Space out the alphabet - 1610 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #110 / 438
Number of attempts: 5

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: 15
Position: #33 / 65
Number of attempts: 10

Not enough Ps - 66 entries

Different type of code

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #27 / 35
Number of attempts: 1

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 72 entries

Here you need complete 2 tasks: 1. Remove all unwanted continuous blank lines and leave only 1 blank line between paragraphs. 2. Properly capitalize the sentences.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #3 / 22
Number of attempts: 8

Line 'em up! - 387 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #37 / 108
Number of attempts: 5

Shuffled numbers - 228 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: #39 / 92
Number of attempts: 8

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: #147 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

Winning streak - 124 entries

Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #7 / 49
Number of attempts: 11

Sorting database text output - 213 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #38 / 80
Number of attempts: 6

Condensed Cases - 777 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: #64 / 240
Number of attempts: 4

Pretty format for variable declarations - 152 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #1 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 396 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #150 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15902 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1123 / 4154
Number of attempts: 8

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: #7 / 107
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #426 / 1124
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 987 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #129 / 348
Number of attempts: 2

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: #9 / 64
Number of attempts: 7

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: #123 / 132
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 720 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #129 / 266
Number of attempts: 3

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 226 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #28 / 99
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1961 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: #132 / 576
Number of attempts: 4

Two become one - 710 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #161 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 857 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #218 / 429
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1157 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #68 / 245
Number of attempts: 7

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: #21 / 101
Number of attempts: 10

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: 40
Position: #83 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10607 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1590 / 3659
Number of attempts: 2

Counting in binary - 447 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #73 / 112
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1588 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: 13
Position: #408 / 509
Number of attempts: 5

quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: #354 / 1066
Number of attempts: 4

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 344 entries

"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #36 / 104
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: 34
Position: #20 / 74
Number of attempts: 9

Words in parens - 12833 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1162 / 3940
Number of attempts: 3

Assign list - 169 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #11 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

paste indent correction - JS - 102 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: #40 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

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: #95 / 302
Number of attempts: 4

Delete unwanted lines - 392 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #190 / 224
Number of attempts: 1

Word frequency alignment - 273 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: #114 / 156
Number of attempts: 2

REDRUM - 149 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: #21 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

Enumerate words - 242 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #34 / 87
Number of attempts: 6

Chinese Multiplication Table - 77 entries

Print a Chinese multiplication table in Vim. In China, every kid is asked to memorize this table. And thanks to the mono-syllabism of Chinese characters, it is not that hard. Printing the multiplication table is also a good exercise for programming beginners. For-loop, escaped characters, etc... There should be some special ways to print it in Vim.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 41
Position: #4 / 24
Number of attempts: 7

Block Fun 1 - 188 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #15 / 72
Number of attempts: 6

Groups magic - 146 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: #67 / 88
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 591 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #23 / 192
Number of attempts: 4

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: #5 / 27
Number of attempts: 4

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 55 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: #9 / 35
Number of attempts: 2

Python: Lots of function arguments - 98 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: #18 / 44
Number of attempts: 7

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: 16
Position: #17 / 57
Number of attempts: 5

NATO phonetic alphabet - 498 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #58 / 189
Number of attempts: 4

Create a pandoc compatible table - 179 entries

In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/

Best score: 32
Best player score: 40
Position: #25 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffle and Sort - 201 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #27 / 63
Number of attempts: 5

Printable ASCII characters - 121 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #5 / 41
Number of attempts: 12

A simple change - 434 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #49 / 187
Number of attempts: 6

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 398 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: #5 / 186
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 643 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #272 / 353
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 570 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #26 / 160
Number of attempts: 6

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1550 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: #124 / 435
Number of attempts: 5

Stairs Indenting - 442 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #133 / 191
Number of attempts: 4

Saving the hashes(#) - 1978 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: #72 / 471
Number of attempts: 7

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 96 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: #59 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1068 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #133 / 436
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 47 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #32 / 41
Number of attempts: 1

Flip the chessboard - 77 entries

White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 29
Number of attempts: 8

Vertical Limit - 2409 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #98 / 730
Number of attempts: 4

Make the circuit grid! - 83 entries

Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 28
Position: #33 / 46
Number of attempts: 2

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: #10 / 66
Number of attempts: 5

Exchanging Quotes - 801 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #84 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2912 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #128 / 761
Number of attempts: 8

Switch function arguments - 2035 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #187 / 641
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 995 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #135 / 399
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and double space - 475 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #69 / 191
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 677 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: #142 / 267
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 607 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #128 / 254
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5016 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #657 / 1729
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 548 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #306 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Calculate the table totals - 129 entries

Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #16 / 42
Number of attempts: 7

Sort the cardinal numbers - 288 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #56 / 145
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1940 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #109 / 637
Number of attempts: 3

Line Zipper - 450 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #19 / 210
Number of attempts: 3

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: #84 / 328
Number of attempts: 6

Case preserving word replacement - 444 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #66 / 178
Number of attempts: 3

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: #52 / 67
Number of attempts: 6

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: #44 / 113
Number of attempts: 8

imports alignment (python) - 657 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #55 / 194
Number of attempts: 8

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 386 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 33
Position: #136 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 456 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #10 / 198
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1849 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #74 / 636
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 342 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #155 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1203 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: #107 / 395
Number of attempts: 5

Assignment Alignment - 824 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #57 / 215
Number of attempts: 10

Shebangs for all - 1860 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: #67 / 488
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and count - 435 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: #14 / 169
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 826 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #53 / 452
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1278 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #272 / 509
Number of attempts: 3

Almost encrypted - 196 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #121 / 144
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 998 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #123 / 336
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 701 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: #19 / 248
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat most common surnames - 625 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #28 / 194
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: #14 / 213
Number of attempts: 2

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: #6 / 111
Number of attempts: 5

Sort and add attributes - 1287 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #250 / 515
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1281 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: #119 / 367
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3206 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #29 / 710
Number of attempts: 10

Flodder-challenge - 1038 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #185 / 298
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12050 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #677 / 3530
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6374 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 40
Position: #802 / 1573
Number of attempts: 1