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Played Challenges

Remove adjacent duplicates - 367 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #16 / 103
Number of attempts: 16

Move to corresponding lines - 182 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 29
Position: #31 / 45
Number of attempts: 16

Rearrange array to single level - 1094 entries

The goal is to flatten the array into a single list and remove any empty elements.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #14 / 186
Number of attempts: 249

Rearrange array to one line - 521 entries

Rearrange the array content on only one line, and remove trailing commas

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #12 / 129
Number of attempts: 85

Copy punctuation - 419 entries

I want to copy the last line’s brackets, quotes, and commas to each line. How?

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #10 / 106
Number of attempts: 58

Change LaTex itemizations formats - 103 entries

Inspired by the way my professor formats their LaTeX assignments.

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #3 / 17
Number of attempts: 50

Column wise pasting - 143 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #3 / 33
Number of attempts: 36

Deleting text - 217 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #3 / 73
Number of attempts: 36

Resolve the spreadsheet - 22 entries

Replace the formulas in column C with the resulting values. Divisions by zero result in NaN. Operations with NaN also result in NaN.

Best score: 119
Best player score: 176
Position: #4 / 6
Number of attempts: 7

Case matching substitution - 45 entries

Swap every "lorem" for "ipsum", keeping the letter cases the same.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #4 / 14
Number of attempts: 12

Define Gray code states - 30 entries

List the states using Gray code and assign Gray code values to each state.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 69
Position: #5 / 10
Number of attempts: 7

Hex to binary - 78 entries

Convert hexadecimal numbers into binary format.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 31
Position: #3 / 17
Number of attempts: 14

Count words - 49 entries

Merge duplicates and count each word.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 61
Position: #8 / 15
Number of attempts: 8

String decompression - 27 entries

3a4b2c => aaabbbbcc. Start a new line when you exceed 79 columns.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #7 / 10
Number of attempts: 9

Reverse even lines - 32 entries

Reverse only the even lines without altering the odd lines.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #6 / 11
Number of attempts: 8

Format a long line - 71 entries

Reformat long lines (gq), textwidth=78, no trailing spaces.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #8 / 25
Number of attempts: 10

Evil Numbers - 72 entries

Print the first 100 evil numbers https://oeis.org/A001969. This is an advert for code.golf https://code.golf/evil-numbers#viml

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #5 / 21
Number of attempts: 17

Mirror image - 69 entries

Add the second eye

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #5 / 25
Number of attempts: 20

Find anomalies - 125 entries

There is one special character per line

Best score: 30
Best player score: 45
Position: #23 / 34
Number of attempts: 9

Coordinate extraction - 51 entries

Get the coordinates of all "M"s from the Vim logo

Best score: 43
Best player score: 97
Position: #14 / 15
Number of attempts: 4

Morse - 131 entries

Translate Morse code to Text

Best score: 31
Best player score: 35
Position: #10 / 30
Number of attempts: 19

New teacher - 836 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #15 / 174
Number of attempts: 24

Truth Table to ModelSim - 58 entries

Convert this truth table to simulator instructions!

Best score: 64
Best player score: 64
Position: #4 / 17
Number of attempts: 13

Replace word while reserving first letter case - 563 entries

Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #24 / 113
Number of attempts: 40

months to html list items - 957 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #43 / 254
Number of attempts: 34

Instance creation in Verilog - 41 entries

Creating an instance of a module is a very frequent task in Verilog. Let's see how efficiently can it be done

Best score: 107
Best player score: 140
Position: #5 / 9
Number of attempts: 6

Quicksort - 1875 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 102
Position: #405 / 411
Number of attempts: 7

EDN reformat - 1133 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 93
Position: #157 / 158
Number of attempts: 3

Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 381 entries

Your mission is to efficiently convert the original Tic-Tac-Toe grid, represented by 'x's and 'o's, into a neat and well-organized game board.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 56
Position: #4 / 82
Number of attempts: 50

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 409 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 42
Position: #54 / 84
Number of attempts: 19

Populate 3D bone names list - 598 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #38 / 152
Number of attempts: 33

Find fix point of cos - 1359 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #73 / 394
Number of attempts: 54

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 445 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

Best score: 33
Best player score: 531
Position: #106 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 538 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #219 / 300
Number of attempts: 12

Easier Align - 393 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 220
Position: #60 / 95
Number of attempts: 23

Paste a column after a column - 2511 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 77
Position: #520 / 547
Number of attempts: 19

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 401 entries

Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #43 / 114
Number of attempts: 19

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 721 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

Best score: 50
Best player score: 50
Position: #8 / 178
Number of attempts: 48

HS exam question - 1577 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 446
Position: #413 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat symbols in list - 1606 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #64 / 344
Number of attempts: 54

Fizzbuzz - 557 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 45
Best player score: 131
Position: #145 / 166
Number of attempts: 13

Substraction (bis) - 584 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 332
Position: #111 / 111
Number of attempts: 2

Poorly indented Python comments - 1313 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 117
Position: #208 / 220
Number of attempts: 10

Many duplicates - 1443 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #307 / 467
Number of attempts: 20

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 642 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 97
Position: #139 / 153
Number of attempts: 16

delete swap - 1768 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #371 / 548
Number of attempts: 19

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 356
Position: #269 / 271
Number of attempts: 5

Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #60 / 589
Number of attempts: 52

Visual block training - 1069 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 113
Position: #192 / 203
Number of attempts: 6

Innocent Monster - 217 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

Best score: 60
Best player score: 92
Position: #30 / 49
Number of attempts: 52

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #260 / 270
Number of attempts: 7

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 290 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 70
Position: #39 / 66
Number of attempts: 22

Solve anagram with ASCII letters - 54 entries

ASCII created by TOIlet command

Best score: 46
Best player score: 46
Position: #3 / 18
Number of attempts: 11

Fill in the chess board - 956 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 37
Position: #102 / 183
Number of attempts: 14

Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 176
Position: #129 / 130
Number of attempts: 1

Plotting some variables in python - 1660 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: #59 / 347
Number of attempts: 54

Transpose a python matrix - 871 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 89
Position: #127 / 137
Number of attempts: 9

Create a diamond comment - 337 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 307
Position: #75 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Lowercase first characters - 486 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: 73
Position: #181 / 182
Number of attempts: 2

Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 107 entries

Change the naming logic of numbers to end up with less lines.

Best score: 74
Best player score: 128
Position: #28 / 39
Number of attempts: 11

simple replacements - 1753 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #96 / 380
Number of attempts: 33

Inverting Lines - 1881 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 67
Position: #507 / 508
Number of attempts: 2

CSV to MD format - 413 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 135
Position: #86 / 94
Number of attempts: 9

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 316 entries

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

Best score: 38
Best player score: 351
Position: #98 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 1127 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 69
Position: #279 / 283
Number of attempts: 5

Count to 100 in word form - 138 entries

Write all the numbers from 1 to 100, using their word forms rather than the digit form. Most of the parts you will need are included in the input file. Use hyphens when appropriate.

Best score: 53
Best player score: 53
Position: #6 / 29
Number of attempts: 17

RUST HTML to maud. - 24 entries

RUST HTML to maud. maud is one of the template engines for server-side rendering based on rust. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 135
Best player score: 235
Position: #7 / 12
Number of attempts: 5

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #26 / 100
Number of attempts: 23

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 325 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #178 / 202
Number of attempts: 12

Modernise code - 1388 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 70
Position: #301 / 319
Number of attempts: 17

Staircase - 149 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: 45
Position: #29 / 34
Number of attempts: 3

Enumerate Bullets - 320 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: 56
Position: #73 / 84
Number of attempts: 11

Put a cross in the square - 225 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #15 / 89
Number of attempts: 11

swap number pairs - 2066 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #200 / 377
Number of attempts: 38

Extend shell script - 134 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #10 / 45
Number of attempts: 24

Easy modification of ssh config - 360 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 71
Position: #106 / 111
Number of attempts: 5

ssh config skills - 256 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 98
Position: #60 / 65
Number of attempts: 6

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 309 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: 22
Position: #24 / 56
Number of attempts: 18

C to python code snippet - 88 entries

C code can be easily translated into Python code. However, the difference in syntax can make this process tedious and time-consuming. Can Vim help you here?

Best score: 48
Best player score: 80
Position: #25 / 30
Number of attempts: 6

Mr. Hacker - 89 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: #18 / 35
Number of attempts: 6

Python: Def to Lambda - 453 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #90 / 155
Number of attempts: 12

Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #63 / 82
Number of attempts: 9

Format the CSS - 157 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 41
Position: #8 / 48
Number of attempts: 15

Rural Post - 4462 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 134
Position: #1083 / 1093
Number of attempts: 10

Multiline to Single Line - 700 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #255 / 302
Number of attempts: 12

Data reformat - 294 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 36
Best player score: 100
Position: #59 / 65
Number of attempts: 7

xrandr outputs and dashes - 704 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: #149 / 221
Number of attempts: 20

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 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: 35
Position: #160 / 169
Number of attempts: 7

Capitalize the Names - 408 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: #51 / 97
Number of attempts: 25

C# function to F# - 30 entries

Converting from C# to F# is not hard, but requires some manual labor. Here you should convert a C# function using a C# class to a F# function using a C# class.

Best score: 101
Best player score: 118
Position: #8 / 11
Number of attempts: 4

C# data class to F# record - 79 entries

Converting from C# to F# is not hard, but requires some manual labor. Here you should convert from a C# data class to a F# record.

Best score: 63
Best player score: 63
Position: #8 / 18
Number of attempts: 10

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1146 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: 26
Position: #98 / 229
Number of attempts: 32

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33584 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: #2403 / 7407
Number of attempts: 18

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 917 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #197 / 260
Number of attempts: 23

Add text at some column - 173 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #24 / 65
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values - 4610 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #360 / 1267
Number of attempts: 32

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6298 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #450 / 1535
Number of attempts: 33

citizen_hacks_2019_part1 - 54 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 52
Best player score: 52
Position: #6 / 17
Number of attempts: 9

One number per line - 18710 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #771 / 3857
Number of attempts: 27

Quote modules - 1073 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 55
Position: #275 / 280
Number of attempts: 6

TAR archive pretty print - 31 entries

Will you use isk ?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #5 / 13
Number of attempts: 6

Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 244
Position: #153 / 155
Number of attempts: 2

Quote modules (ver.2) - 239 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #10 / 60
Number of attempts: 14

Wget failed to download redirections - 202 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: #13 / 65
Number of attempts: 17

Prime Numbers - 354 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 277
Position: #91 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

Separate the lines - 182 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 38
Position: #90 / 92
Number of attempts: 3

vim = 22 / 7 - 472 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #40 / 134
Number of attempts: 21

Palindrome numbers - 29 entries

For each number compute its associated palindrome. First number (first line) has been eaten! #prime

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #9 / 16
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2486 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 154
Position: #576 / 576
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 925 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: 10
Position: #155 / 229
Number of attempts: 16

V to the i - 4798 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #797 / 1891
Number of attempts: 16

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 323 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #28 / 71
Number of attempts: 16

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1214 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: 46
Position: #236 / 249
Number of attempts: 10

Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #27 / 101
Number of attempts: 22

Add semicolons - 10846 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 183
Position: #3060 / 3060
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2028 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 57
Position: #510 / 522
Number of attempts: 11

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 36
Position: #616 / 634
Number of attempts: 13

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3574 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 61
Position: #1157 / 1158
Number of attempts: 2

Word Blender - 148 entries

The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?

Best score: 28
Best player score: 1290
Position: #56 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3791 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 98
Position: #853 / 858
Number of attempts: 6

My cafe needs a new menu - 31 entries

Help! My cafe needs a new menu and I've only got this plain-text file from the kitchen. In order to get it printed, I need to transform it into a markdown file with; headings for each type of item, prices on each menu item, dietary options and a key down the bottom.

Best score: 126
Best player score: 126
Position: #3 / 8
Number of attempts: 6

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 750 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #312 / 405
Number of attempts: 29

Extract wireshark capture filter - 213 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 34
Position: #59 / 70
Number of attempts: 10

citizen_hacks_2019_part4 - 22 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #3 / 11
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_part2 - 25 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 41
Best player score: 41
Position: #7 / 10
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7902 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 43
Position: #1744 / 1874
Number of attempts: 43

citizen_hacks_2019_part5 - 32 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #4 / 11
Number of attempts: 6

citizen_hacks_2019_part3 - 25 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 57
Best player score: 57
Position: #3 / 8
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_part6 - 30 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 35
Best player score: 35
Position: #7 / 12
Number of attempts: 5

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 135 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: #22 / 47
Number of attempts: 6

Triangular Numbers - 104 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #20 / 29
Number of attempts: 7

Hash staircase - 56 entries

Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #17 / 25
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #72 / 230
Number of attempts: 25

multiple cursor alternative - 1519 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: #98 / 380
Number of attempts: 30

html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 116
Position: #122 / 126
Number of attempts: 5

From argument to object - 1503 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: #167 / 455
Number of attempts: 21

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 32
Position: #694 / 703
Number of attempts: 8

Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #38 / 56
Number of attempts: 8

Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 77
Position: #116 / 119
Number of attempts: 4

Extract argument from function - 2355 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #273 / 752
Number of attempts: 17

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 74 entries

Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #8 / 19
Number of attempts: 9

Start coding format - 155 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #33 / 72
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4970 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #737 / 1618
Number of attempts: 70

Across-Down Flip - 68 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #5 / 26
Number of attempts: 14

Number Sort - 314 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: #141 / 166
Number of attempts: 7

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #242 / 701
Number of attempts: 21

comment and uncomment code inline - 1118 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: #162 / 321
Number of attempts: 19

Letterbox - 145 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 41
Position: #9 / 28
Number of attempts: 52

Flip the bit - 130 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #40 / 74
Number of attempts: 4

The D a n k Side of the Moon - 50 entries

You're making a vaporwave cover of The Dark Side of the Moon. So for the tracklisting, you want to: 1. Change the track names to v a p o r c a s e 2. Double the track lengths (since you're slowing them down). Well... let's just double the minutes.

Best score: 40
Best player score: 40
Position: #7 / 17
Number of attempts: 7

Just the middle - 11423 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1510 / 4185
Number of attempts: 20

On Being Stylish - 81 entries

Your PR cannot be accepted if you don't follow our corporate style guide.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #6 / 21
Number of attempts: 8

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 110 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: 34
Position: #10 / 44
Number of attempts: 11

Team names - 1834 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #284 / 587
Number of attempts: 19

Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 257
Position: #132 / 133
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 658 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: #32 / 213
Number of attempts: 17

Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 34
Position: #59 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Todo list specification - 399 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #100 / 179
Number of attempts: 10

Subnetting - 131 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #16 / 39
Number of attempts: 17

Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 49 entries

sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #6 / 20
Number of attempts: 10

Text to HTML Table - 180 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 86
Position: #53 / 53
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #10 / 379
Number of attempts: 12

Return the cow - 75 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 131
Position: #28 / 30
Number of attempts: 3

Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 27 entries

Convert from one format to another

Best score: 56
Best player score: 72
Position: #6 / 12
Number of attempts: 6

For all cases. - 160 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #93 / 105
Number of attempts: 9

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 261 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 47
Position: #141 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Splits long lines in more readable ones - 13 entries

Those tests have too long lines. We have to split the to have more readable ones. This is based on a real project with Ruby and RSpec.

Best score: 54
Best player score: 74
Position: #5 / 6
Number of attempts: 2

Stairstep digits - 392 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #128 / 144
Number of attempts: 9

Format java properties - 88 entries

Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #13 / 35
Number of attempts: 15

Lenny Spiral - 16 entries

Make one lenny into an infinite army of lennys.

Best score: 35
Best player score: 35
Position: #4 / 8
Number of attempts: 2

Back to the roots - 63 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #4 / 38
Number of attempts: 6

Flatten repo - 29 entries

For each git repository (<project> tag) translate name attribute to flatten directory structure. Add path attribute if missing (because checkout hierarchy must be kept). #xml

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #4 / 11
Number of attempts: 5

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 67 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: #35 / 39
Number of attempts: 3

Missing Library and a Typo - 887 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: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #27 / 213
Number of attempts: 23

Long prime list - filter version - 34 entries

I've used the maximum input/diff/output size allowed by vimgolf to get a list of integers up to 1460 separated by newlines, and your goal is to only keep the lines containing primes. There are 232 of them I hope some of you will golf vimscript itself to create some function to run as a primality check for each line, which is a good exercise if you haven't done much vimscript yet! You're invited to also try copy-pasting and doing other non-smart text manipulation. Even more interesting would be to see a solution that uses text manipulation to do the filtering! Whether you use vimscript, normal-mode primality checks, or text manipulation, as long as the end result is valid, your answer will be valid! Let's see which method does better here. Best of luck!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #4 / 10
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5645 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #278 / 1263
Number of attempts: 38

Simple addition - 324 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: #61 / 121
Number of attempts: 10

Hidden Message - 93 entries

Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #11 / 30
Number of attempts: 15

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #60 / 79
Number of attempts: 9

create arrows in a list - 112 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #64 / 72
Number of attempts: 6

Adam's challenge - 978 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: #101 / 268
Number of attempts: 20

sort python functions and methods alphabetically - 28 entries

* sort functions in the python file alphabetically * sort functions within a Class alphabetically * sort Classes alphabetically

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #8 / 15
Number of attempts: 5

42-header - 43 entries

Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #13 / 16
Number of attempts: 4

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 862 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: #165 / 289
Number of attempts: 21

Nesting SASS - 265 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 23
Position: #92 / 95
Number of attempts: 3

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #3 / 63
Number of attempts: 21

Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 40 entries

Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #7 / 16
Number of attempts: 6

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 181 entries

FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 41
Position: #52 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 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: 18
Position: #171 / 174
Number of attempts: 4

Combines all items - 313 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #89 / 140
Number of attempts: 6

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 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: #30 / 83
Number of attempts: 10

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #49 / 122
Number of attempts: 17

underscore_to_camelCase - 173 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: #32 / 82
Number of attempts: 10

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #79 / 81
Number of attempts: 3

JSON string rotation - 60 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 35
Position: #17 / 21
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 27
Position: #234 / 267
Number of attempts: 19

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 58
Position: #2108 / 2125
Number of attempts: 4

Double and switch - 43 entries

Aaaanother case switcher

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #10 / 19
Number of attempts: 5

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #30 / 77
Number of attempts: 16

7th Birthday - 202 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #21 / 75
Number of attempts: 15

Free hyphen! - 169 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: #35 / 89
Number of attempts: 4

C Reformatting - 690 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 156
Position: #163 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

Convert pasted text into Markdown - 32 entries

I often need to copy/paste text into Markdown files. The challenge here is to wrap the lines in a way that prefers breaks after periods, commas, or other logical demarcations. There should be no spaces at the beginning of a line.

Best score: 46
Best player score: 46
Position: #2 / 14
Number of attempts: 9

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #46 / 125
Number of attempts: 19

SQL to YAML - 52 entries

Should be easy with vim, or not?

Best score: 71
Best player score: 98
Position: #18 / 22
Number of attempts: 5

Triangle of arrows - 199 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: #15 / 44
Number of attempts: 18

Lower cased and dashed strings - 49 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 59
Best player score: 107
Position: #20 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #10 / 65
Number of attempts: 20

Sorting a glossary - 131 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: #74 / 81
Number of attempts: 4

Sort files from hosts - 188 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #25 / 76
Number of attempts: 8

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #84 / 259
Number of attempts: 18

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #46 / 167
Number of attempts: 13

Array of characters - 175 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #19 / 47
Number of attempts: 18

comments galore - 1041 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #306 / 423
Number of attempts: 21

Mirrored text - 177 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #22 / 71
Number of attempts: 10

lipsum lines - 273 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #19 / 94
Number of attempts: 18

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #14 / 82
Number of attempts: 5

Angular naming conventions - 320 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #47 / 118
Number of attempts: 13

Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #58 / 118
Number of attempts: 22

Sudoku table - 92 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #6 / 34
Number of attempts: 19

Change attribute to getter - 140 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #54 / 59
Number of attempts: 6

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #45 / 184
Number of attempts: 27

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 38
Position: #120 / 128
Number of attempts: 11

Align commas - 1092 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: #100 / 245
Number of attempts: 24

ascii-art diamond - 44 entries

Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 41
Position: #10 / 17
Number of attempts: 7

Create bison tokens - 47 entries

Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words

Best score: 85
Best player score: 85
Position: #5 / 18
Number of attempts: 12

A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #32 / 61
Number of attempts: 9

Manual SQL - 160 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #3 / 50
Number of attempts: 24

mp3 - Cutlist - 42 entries

An audio CD was accidentally ripped into one single mp3 file. A dummy cue-file now needs to be filled out with the correct values to get single mp3 files.

Best score: 65
Best player score: 65
Position: #3 / 14
Number of attempts: 12

Maze path - 48 entries

Follow the given motions and mark your path with Xs. Attention: This maze is quite big (20x20), please set your terminal size to at least 82.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #8 / 17
Number of attempts: 10

Hello ${world} - 324 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #38 / 96
Number of attempts: 24

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 94 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 8
Position: #61 / 64
Number of attempts: 4

Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #68 / 140
Number of attempts: 9

Python challenge - 172 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #11 / 46
Number of attempts: 24

One to Ten - 2209 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: #366 / 669
Number of attempts: 23

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 661 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: #71 / 207
Number of attempts: 11

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 144 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #51 / 76
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat Cura settings - 132 entries

Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json

Best score: 50
Best player score: 50
Position: #9 / 24
Number of attempts: 11

Line under headers - 2031 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 35
Position: #380 / 500
Number of attempts: 5

Build a six - 294 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #61 / 95
Number of attempts: 17

Comparing Schema With Diff - 52 entries

Sometimes databases output things differently one to another. Fixing things that are out of order will make the diffs more usable.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 53
Position: #10 / 10
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #150 / 248
Number of attempts: 20

ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #34 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

simple format (3) - 86 entries

reverse two column values!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 36
Position: #13 / 24
Number of attempts: 9

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 37 entries

Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!

Best score: 51
Best player score: 64
Position: #13 / 15
Number of attempts: 3

Greek Letters - 64 entries

Starting with a list of Greek letters, create a cross-reference table showing all of the Greek alpha-beta. You'll likely need to use digraphs (:help digraphs). Note that while most digraphs can be entered with either character first, lowercase sigma has two digraphs -- s* AND *s! Good luck!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 336
Position: #24 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

Around the clock - 199 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: #40 / 77
Number of attempts: 8

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 64 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 3
Best player score: 3
Position: #48 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

Back to the Future - 6 entries

We can't just time-travel around without first making sure our code is pretty and columns are aligned. And keeping lines with at most 80 characters should help if we ever need to review the code while we're stuck in the past. This is my first challenge. I tried being creative and even did a bit of research, so I hope you enjoy it.

Best score: 127
Best player score: 208
Position: #4 / 4
Number of attempts: 1

snowflake fractal - 51 entries

From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #11 / 20
Number of attempts: 10

Delete to the end of the current line - 810 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #267 / 389
Number of attempts: 13

Song Transcription Oops - 243 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: 21
Position: #62 / 78
Number of attempts: 7

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #96 / 161
Number of attempts: 9

Label grid cells (6x6) - 53 entries

Label the cells of a grid with its coordinates. Rows are labelled top to bottom from A to F, and columns left to right from A to F. Each cell has a coordinate MN, where M is the row letter and N is the column letter.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 63
Position: #20 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Remove quotes after first field - 380 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #36 / 91
Number of attempts: 13

Put the months in order - 974 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 84
Position: #163 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

Separating firstname & lastname - 138 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #9 / 57
Number of attempts: 17

Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #96 / 264
Number of attempts: 30

Add Go XML to structure tags - 170 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: #5 / 69
Number of attempts: 15

move titles next to url, in quotes - 529 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #31 / 139
Number of attempts: 17

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 44
Position: #69 / 72
Number of attempts: 4

Sierpinski's Triangle - 86 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 160
Position: #26 / 27
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #93 / 227
Number of attempts: 19

Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #29 / 62
Number of attempts: 9

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #98 / 269
Number of attempts: 10

No naked if allowed! - 39 entries

House style forbids naked condition statements, comments should start with a space character and be on their own line. Good luck!

Best score: 46
Best player score: 58
Position: #11 / 17
Number of attempts: 6

Swap assigned value - 643 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #113 / 253
Number of attempts: 14

Kolakoski sequence -- level 2 - 16 entries

This time, the line above describes the line below. Level 1 at: http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/5c880211ab65cb00065c74eb

Best score: 37
Best player score: 39
Position: #4 / 8
Number of attempts: 3

Binary and Increment - 55 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 39
Position: #13 / 19
Number of attempts: 7

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #59 / 159
Number of attempts: 15

Cartesian product - 248 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #11 / 94
Number of attempts: 25

Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #12 / 87
Number of attempts: 29

Entries sort - 90 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: #22 / 40
Number of attempts: 8

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #531 / 1190
Number of attempts: 28

VimGolfNight - 555 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #294 / 345
Number of attempts: 17

Rail fence transposition cipher - 84 entries

Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #7 / 26
Number of attempts: 13

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 55
Position: #281 / 281
Number of attempts: 2

Land of the Lost - 81 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

Best score: 25
Best player score: 74
Position: #31 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #57 / 69
Number of attempts: 8

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #81 / 152
Number of attempts: 9

Interleave lines - 185 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: #10 / 60
Number of attempts: 26

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #26 / 88
Number of attempts: 26

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #113 / 444
Number of attempts: 26

Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 45 entries

For each line take 4th dirname of path. For example: "alsa-utils", "gawk-3.1.5", ... But! But if previous result is "files", take 3rd dirname instead. For example: "mktemp", "mklibs" ... If version is present in package name (dash is the separator character), take it. For example: "apt-0.9.9.4" prevails over "apt". And finally, use sort -u to get unique names!

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #5 / 15
Number of attempts: 11

remove all lines in first part - 211 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: #13 / 67
Number of attempts: 13

Fill visual area - 91 entries

Just have fun!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 53
Position: #26 / 38
Number of attempts: 8

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #66 / 290
Number of attempts: 34

Line 'em up! - 420 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: #41 / 113
Number of attempts: 24

Shuffled numbers - 246 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: #42 / 96
Number of attempts: 9

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #42 / 107
Number of attempts: 14

50 factorials mod 97 - 58 entries

List 1! to 50!, but give your answer mod 97.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #8 / 20
Number of attempts: 7

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #150 / 239
Number of attempts: 6

Remove hard line breaks - 74 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: 21
Position: #29 / 34
Number of attempts: 6

Custom McCarthy sequence - 44 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #8 / 17
Number of attempts: 6

Conway sequence - 26 entries

Generate the the first fifteen numbers. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #19 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

Winning streak - 135 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #32 / 51
Number of attempts: 10

Sorting database text output - 223 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: 33
Position: #81 / 83
Number of attempts: 3

Config Sections - 53 entries

Section me!

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #6 / 20
Number of attempts: 13

Refactoring useless Method away - 116 entries

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

Best score: 47
Best player score: 47
Position: #7 / 34
Number of attempts: 24

Test everything! - 186 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #7 / 54
Number of attempts: 23

Condensed Cases - 800 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: 31
Position: #239 / 245
Number of attempts: 6

increment by column in XML - 152 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #51 / 55
Number of attempts: 5

Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #5 / 42
Number of attempts: 18

Pretty format for variable declarations - 170 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #5 / 64
Number of attempts: 14

Simple Maths - 57 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 28
Position: #6 / 27
Number of attempts: 10

Happy TvvO - 426 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #157 / 205
Number of attempts: 9

C to VimDict - 53 entries

Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #6 / 15
Number of attempts: 6

range(10) digit rotation - 38 entries

This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #15 / 22
Number of attempts: 5

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #22 / 69
Number of attempts: 15

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #132 / 161
Number of attempts: 6

Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 76 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #4 / 27
Number of attempts: 14

vim1001 - 307 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: #9 / 110
Number of attempts: 22

Roman numerals - 81 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #11 / 29
Number of attempts: 12

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #315 / 1137
Number of attempts: 17

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #60 / 354
Number of attempts: 15

Suffix sort - 270 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: #12 / 67
Number of attempts: 15

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #65 / 116
Number of attempts: 9

Change name of a variable - 179 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: #131 / 137
Number of attempts: 6

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #60 / 158
Number of attempts: 11

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #40 / 145
Number of attempts: 24

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 40
Position: #271 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 139 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #23 / 58
Number of attempts: 13

Winding path - 122 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #8 / 42
Number of attempts: 28

Comparing scores - 112 entries

If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #14 / 35
Number of attempts: 16

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #16 / 103
Number of attempts: 18

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #157 / 300
Number of attempts: 17

Don't know what this is - 2014 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: #138 / 582
Number of attempts: 17

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #224 / 437
Number of attempts: 7

Shuffle puzzle - 346 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: #24 / 104
Number of attempts: 14

HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 88 entries

We did this a VimGolf challenge at work and now that we have finished I want to see if you guys can come up with something even better than we could. Our best solution was 44 keystrokes.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 33
Position: #11 / 36
Number of attempts: 21

attr_aligner - 3498 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #182 / 696
Number of attempts: 44

Under the cupola - 57 entries

Taking some liberty about the name and plot of the Stephen King's famous novel (and TV series) to make this challenge. Are you able to recreate graphically the key phrase of the story? (I think is gonna be hard!)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #10 / 19
Number of attempts: 7

Ninjas Leaderboard - 99 entries

The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #6 / 41
Number of attempts: 13

Counting in binary - 522 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #15 / 115
Number of attempts: 44

Letter case trickery - 1621 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: #41 / 516
Number of attempts: 21

Untangle my tail, please! - 60 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: 20
Position: #31 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: #367 / 1075
Number of attempts: 24

Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 72 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #27 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

Recursive Cowsay - 64 entries

Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output

Best score: 33
Best player score: 56
Position: #15 / 19
Number of attempts: 5

Top X - 212 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 71
Number of attempts: 20

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 348 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: 71
Position: #106 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

Number an outline - 279 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 40
Position: #31 / 77
Number of attempts: 27

Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #20 / 3960
Number of attempts: 24

Pairs of numbers - 362 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 269
Position: #134 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

Assign list - 192 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 36
Position: #26 / 61
Number of attempts: 21

Draw the Go board - 149 entries

which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))

Best score: 50
Best player score: 82
Position: #47 / 51
Number of attempts: 5

paste indent correction - JS - 112 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: #43 / 59
Number of attempts: 9

It's a factor - 104 entries

Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 88
Position: #25 / 38
Number of attempts: 11

Delete unwanted lines - 408 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #196 / 228
Number of attempts: 10

Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 178 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #28 / 76
Number of attempts: 11

Fibonacci Triangles - 59 entries

Triangles

Best score: 40
Best player score: 40
Position: #4 / 22
Number of attempts: 9

Lookahead and Lookbehind - 70 entries

Look everywhere

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #29 / 31
Number of attempts: 2

Word frequency alignment - 290 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: #125 / 161
Number of attempts: 11

LaTeX to XML Math Delimiters - 48 entries

Vim is amazing when used to edit MediaWiki text, but typing "<math> . . . </math>" can be tiresome and frustrating if formulas are used often. LaTeX delimiters are so concise and even come in two flavors: "$ . . . $" for inline math and "\[ . . . \]" for centered formulas. The goal is to perform the following conversions: "$ . . . $" becomes "<math>. . .</math>" "\[ . . . \]" becomes "<center><math>. . .</math></center>"

Best score: 63
Best player score: 92
Position: #14 / 20
Number of attempts: 7

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 152
Position: #174 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

XML to JSON - 47 entries

Convert this xml file into json.

Best score: 75
Best player score: 285
Position: #19 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Coordinates placeholder - 73 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #8 / 38
Number of attempts: 8

Define to require - 127 entries

When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.

Best score: 62
Best player score: 110
Position: #43 / 50
Number of attempts: 8

REDRUM - 164 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: #23 / 64
Number of attempts: 13

Enumerate words - 254 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 42
Position: #89 / 91
Number of attempts: 3

Execute immediate SQL - 90 entries

Sql string tranformation ...

Best score: 58
Best player score: 85
Position: #30 / 32
Number of attempts: 3

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 93 entries

Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #7 / 42
Number of attempts: 15

Chinese Multiplication Table - 81 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: 301
Position: #25 / 26
Number of attempts: 2

Circle in a square - 152 entries

Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 66
Position: #41 / 54
Number of attempts: 11

Transposition - 99 entries

Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 36
Position: #10 / 32
Number of attempts: 14

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #17 / 75
Number of attempts: 20

Groups magic - 158 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: 21
Position: #93 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 629 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #26 / 196
Number of attempts: 28

Refactor arguments into object argument - 166 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 165
Position: #67 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

Resort and deup a CSV list - 167 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 44
Position: #15 / 43
Number of attempts: 15

Sort by your own sum - 85 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #8 / 30
Number of attempts: 10

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 67 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: #12 / 39
Number of attempts: 4

abcd > a b c d - 290 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #204 / 221
Number of attempts: 8

Readable Rubyhash - 263 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: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #6 / 94
Number of attempts: 18

[Real World] PHP To Markdown - 33 entries

Fun refactoring I had to do in the real world. This presents several challenges: - How to create a table that fits the informations exactly - How to keep track of two informations per line while doing the refactoring - Generate the link from the actual text Have fun!

Best score: 141
Best player score: 141
Position: #4 / 9
Number of attempts: 6

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 114 entries

Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #13 / 38
Number of attempts: 17

Dehamlizing - 185 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 99
Position: #72 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Checkerboard case pattern - 163 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #6 / 60
Number of attempts: 14

Rule 110 - 46 entries

Compute the next 5 iterations of Rule 110 with the given starting state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #4 / 13
Number of attempts: 10

NATO phonetic alphabet - 526 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #51 / 195
Number of attempts: 20

Pascal's Triangle - 38 entries

Generate the first 17 left-justified rows of Pascal's triangle.

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #13 / 17
Number of attempts: 3

Create a pandoc compatible table - 214 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: 32
Position: #12 / 56
Number of attempts: 27

Santa's naughty / nice list - 90 entries

Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #8 / 26
Number of attempts: 11

Shuffle and Sort - 229 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #15 / 67
Number of attempts: 19

Printable ASCII characters - 142 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 43
Position: #32 / 44
Number of attempts: 6

A simple change - 461 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #54 / 191
Number of attempts: 17

Add links to an existing HTML table - 97 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Best score: 42
Best player score: 42
Position: #5 / 31
Number of attempts: 19

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 159 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #7 / 54
Number of attempts: 23

If-then-else regexp - 53 entries

Rules: - golf is never following golf - vim comes first! Drawing a finite-state machine diagram could help. #regexp

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #9 / 14
Number of attempts: 4

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 189 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: 24
Position: #5 / 105
Number of attempts: 14

Presidential Sorting - 51 entries

Given a nice CSV formatted arrangement of the Presidents of the United States, we need to print out an alphabetical list in pretty columns. Prove that vim can conquer this basic Excel task!

Best score: 40
Best player score: 111
Position: #26 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

Extract text from xml - 127 entries

Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #7 / 46
Number of attempts: 17

citizen_hacks_2019_part9 - 32 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 48
Best player score: 59
Position: #11 / 11
Number of attempts: 1

Simple Maths 2 - 44 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #6 / 16
Number of attempts: 8

Tiny column alignment - 61 entries

Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #8 / 23
Number of attempts: 14

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 416 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: #8 / 191
Number of attempts: 12

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #283 / 360
Number of attempts: 11

Complete the circuit grid! - 105 entries

Continuing from the last challenge, add additional rows to the grid. Change each of the names from 'A1'...'A10' to 'B1'...'B10', 'C1'...'C10', etc, and for each new row add 0.7 to the X values in the (X Y) at the end of each line.

Best score: 46
Best player score: 46
Position: #2 / 30
Number of attempts: 20

SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 90 entries

Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #8 / 33
Number of attempts: 18

lamb had a little Mary - 598 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 69
Position: #164 / 165
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 115 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #10 / 47
Number of attempts: 13

Chucking wood - 125 entries

An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)

Best score: 51
Best player score: 51
Position: #6 / 48
Number of attempts: 14

Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #26 / 197
Number of attempts: 19

Unwrap the text of an email message - 189 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: 37
Position: #74 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Array Transposition - 201 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #5 / 56
Number of attempts: 18

Python to Ruby - 204 entries

Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 50
Position: #56 / 61
Number of attempts: 5

maximun and minimun - 73 entries

Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.

Best score: 50
Best player score: 50
Position: #2 / 26
Number of attempts: 14

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 203 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 53
Position: #69 / 79
Number of attempts: 9

Saving the hashes(#) - 2053 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: #74 / 479
Number of attempts: 38

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 101 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: 25
Position: #72 / 73
Number of attempts: 2

Create an alphabet diamond - 105 entries

Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...

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

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #144 / 445
Number of attempts: 17

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #36 / 113
Number of attempts: 23

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #7 / 75
Number of attempts: 22

Inconsistent real estate paste - 213 entries

Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #13 / 57
Number of attempts: 28

Alphabet soup - 429 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 52
Position: #107 / 108
Number of attempts: 3

calculations - 312 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 47
Position: #43 / 68
Number of attempts: 15

Enharmonic Equivalents - 59 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #36 / 37
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the chessboard - 95 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: #9 / 32
Number of attempts: 16

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #103 / 754
Number of attempts: 30

Make the circuit grid! - 101 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: 32
Position: #41 / 50
Number of attempts: 10

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 247 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: #12 / 71
Number of attempts: 17

Exchanging Quotes - 851 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #16 / 228
Number of attempts: 27

replacing each line of a block selection - 2996 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #133 / 775
Number of attempts: 13

Switch function arguments - 2118 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #194 / 657
Number of attempts: 20

Append semicolon after expressions - 1046 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #145 / 413
Number of attempts: 16

Reverse and double space - 499 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 77
Position: #198 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 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: #147 / 273
Number of attempts: 17

constructor - 182 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

Best score: 59
Best player score: 391
Position: #59 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 648 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #137 / 262
Number of attempts: 9

switch variable - 5067 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 42
Position: #1733 / 1746
Number of attempts: 16

The meaning - 574 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #325 / 362
Number of attempts: 7

Calculate the table totals - 146 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 59
Position: #31 / 45
Number of attempts: 13

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1007 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 262
Position: #191 / 192
Number of attempts: 1

Replacing some words - 425 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 45
Position: #142 / 150
Number of attempts: 5

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 254 entries

Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.

Best score: 65
Best player score: 65
Position: #5 / 63
Number of attempts: 41

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 395
Position: #67 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

Sort the cardinal numbers - 310 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #60 / 148
Number of attempts: 16

Make it more readable - 1986 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #113 / 646
Number of attempts: 25

Line Zipper - 472 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #21 / 214
Number of attempts: 17

remove dupes from array - 1354 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: 41
Position: #319 / 335
Number of attempts: 2

Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #17 / 101
Number of attempts: 14

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 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: #30 / 150
Number of attempts: 37

Complete the hex array data - 197 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 1828
Position: #74 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 166 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #54 / 69
Number of attempts: 9

Sort entries based on date - 392 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #46 / 117
Number of attempts: 21

Refactor to Helpers - 50 entries

This Rails partial is almost all template escapes. Put it into a helper, and refactor each case to methods so we can build out the controls for each. (I've converted to tabs - fighting with Vimgolf's default config shouldn't be part of the challenge.)

Best score: 147
Best player score: 855
Position: #25 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

Here, piggy, piggy... - 80 entries

Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...

Best score: 68
Best player score: 99
Position: #19 / 23
Number of attempts: 4

Happy New Year! - 145 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 445
Position: #59 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #50 / 198
Number of attempts: 33

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 279 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #24 / 99
Number of attempts: 16

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 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: 29
Position: #32 / 166
Number of attempts: 18

Before there was Farmville... - 101 entries

There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?

Best score: 156
Best player score: 1753
Position: #48 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #47 / 204
Number of attempts: 35

expand a list comprehension (python) - 333 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 42
Position: #19 / 109
Number of attempts: 30

Reformat long lines - 358 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: #31 / 134
Number of attempts: 12

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 42
Position: #187 / 206
Number of attempts: 11

Overall Vimgolf Rank - 216 entries

Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #1 / 59
Number of attempts: 45

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #86 / 652
Number of attempts: 41

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 163 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: 24
Position: #23 / 71
Number of attempts: 14

Getters & Setters: Java - 207 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Best score: 89
Best player score: 354
Position: #58 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #9 / 74
Number of attempts: 12

Java Array2List - 233 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 185
Position: #83 / 87
Number of attempts: 4

The holy-grail may help - 362 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #161 / 208
Number of attempts: 9

Assignment Alignment - 881 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #60 / 220
Number of attempts: 33

Shebangs for all - 1982 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: #74 / 510
Number of attempts: 26

A Simple One - 1043 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: #579 / 659
Number of attempts: 10

Round Round - 299 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 151
Position: #75 / 87
Number of attempts: 8

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 310 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 334
Position: #141 / 144
Number of attempts: 3

Table Reshuffle - 410 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #32 / 138
Number of attempts: 32

Reverse and count - 473 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: 38
Position: #161 / 176
Number of attempts: 11

Letters are numbers - 167 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: 24
Position: #11 / 76
Number of attempts: 10

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 250 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #72 / 88
Number of attempts: 11

Ruby 1.9 compat - 624 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: #72 / 232
Number of attempts: 9

Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 20
Position: #443 / 457
Number of attempts: 9

Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #390 / 405
Number of attempts: 9

Indentation - 534 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #14 / 177
Number of attempts: 13

Hatsuyume - 495 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #16 / 182
Number of attempts: 18

Turn this csv list into queries - 237 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 98
Position: #7 / 99
Number of attempts: 28

The Cake is a Lie - 1330 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #283 / 523
Number of attempts: 16

Fix the Haiku - 293 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 36
Position: #30 / 112
Number of attempts: 15

Context insensitive completion 0 - 558 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: #127 / 242
Number of attempts: 5

Remove Accent off the Letter - 126 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 54
Position: #13 / 51
Number of attempts: 19

Compile C - 400 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #25 / 137
Number of attempts: 19

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #164 / 243
Number of attempts: 13

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #128 / 146
Number of attempts: 5

Make Fancy Header - 1045 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #127 / 342
Number of attempts: 16

Linear congruential generator - 137 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 94
Position: #47 / 52
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat some Python - 604 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #44 / 235
Number of attempts: 10

Reformat a C golf submission - 582 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: 96
Position: #205 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 750 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: #26 / 261
Number of attempts: 11

Reformat most common surnames - 692 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 75
Position: #197 / 205
Number of attempts: 6

Remember FizzBuzz? - 713 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 139
Position: #183 / 188
Number of attempts: 6

Get rid of html tags - 394 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 38
Position: #227 / 228
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1552 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #230 / 580
Number of attempts: 12

Sort and add attributes - 1421 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #286 / 552
Number of attempts: 18

Add fold markers to a .c file - 605 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #91 / 179
Number of attempts: 16

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1477 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: 70
Position: #396 / 405
Number of attempts: 6

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3589 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 101
Position: #771 / 775
Number of attempts: 2

Flodder-challenge - 1224 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #35 / 328
Number of attempts: 26

Simple text editing with Vim - 12680 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #722 / 3665
Number of attempts: 32

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6866 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 88
Position: #1648 / 1681
Number of attempts: 6

Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

Remove adjacent duplicates - 367 entries

Move to corresponding lines - 182 entries

Rearrange array to single level - 1094 entries

Rearrange array to one line - 521 entries

Copy punctuation - 419 entries

Change LaTex itemizations formats - 103 entries

Column wise pasting - 143 entries

Deleting text - 217 entries

Resolve the spreadsheet - 22 entries

Case matching substitution - 45 entries

Define Gray code states - 30 entries

Hex to binary - 78 entries

Count words - 49 entries

String decompression - 27 entries

Reverse even lines - 32 entries

Format a long line - 71 entries

Evil Numbers - 72 entries

Mirror image - 69 entries

Find anomalies - 125 entries

Coordinate extraction - 51 entries

Morse - 131 entries

New teacher - 836 entries

Truth Table to ModelSim - 58 entries

Replace word while reserving first letter case - 563 entries

months to html list items - 957 entries

Instance creation in Verilog - 41 entries

Quicksort - 1875 entries

EDN reformat - 1133 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 381 entries

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 409 entries

Populate 3D bone names list - 598 entries

Find fix point of cos - 1359 entries

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 445 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 538 entries

Easier Align - 393 entries

Paste a column after a column - 2511 entries

Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 401 entries

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 721 entries

HS exam question - 1577 entries

Reformat symbols in list - 1606 entries

Fizzbuzz - 557 entries

Substraction (bis) - 584 entries

Poorly indented Python comments - 1313 entries

Many duplicates - 1443 entries

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 642 entries

delete swap - 1768 entries

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 entries

Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Visual block training - 1069 entries

Innocent Monster - 217 entries

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 290 entries

Solve anagram with ASCII letters - 54 entries

Fill in the chess board - 956 entries

Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

Plotting some variables in python - 1660 entries

Transpose a python matrix - 871 entries

Create a diamond comment - 337 entries

Lowercase first characters - 486 entries

Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 107 entries

simple replacements - 1753 entries

Inverting Lines - 1881 entries

CSV to MD format - 413 entries

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 316 entries

Python dataclasses - 1127 entries

Count to 100 in word form - 138 entries

RUST HTML to maud. - 24 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 325 entries

Modernise code - 1388 entries

Staircase - 149 entries

Enumerate Bullets - 320 entries

Put a cross in the square - 225 entries

swap number pairs - 2066 entries

Extend shell script - 134 entries

Easy modification of ssh config - 360 entries

ssh config skills - 256 entries