Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Changelog, Rules & FAQ, updates: @vimgolf, RSS.

Your VimGolf key: please sign in

$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Reordering properties - 1110 entries

Arrange the CSS lines for the #topbar selector based on their complete line length, from shortest to longest.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 81
  • Position: #147 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 407 entries

Turn this spreadsheet output into a CSV file but first swap the columns

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #84 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace markdown sections with numbering - 296 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #25 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 290 entries

Change the class fields in this Scala class from snake case to camel case

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #73 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace csv column if it's not empty - 255 entries

Replace the credit_score_percentile column with the value 0.0 but leave the empty ones untouched

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #17 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 3
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 254 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://youtu.be/Bafo3hhheHU?si=DfcT4sUEMTSAevnx&t=1091

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #56 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 1
Append leading hyphen count to each line - 126 entries

Append the number of leading hyphens to the end of each line.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #28 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix timezone format - 324 entries

Add the missing T and Z in the datetime field. There should be a T instead of the space, and a Z at the end of the datetime. `2024-08-31 18:32:00;` -> `2024-08-31T18:32:00Z;`

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #73 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove adjacent duplicates - 658 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #136 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rearrange array to one line - 799 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #97 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy punctuation - 679 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #100 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 1
Find anomalies - 163 entries

There is one special character per line

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #31 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 1
New teacher - 1453 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #183 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 2
months to html list items - 1119 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #293 / 303
  • Number of attempts: 1
Find fix point of cos - 1458 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: 16
  • Position: #292 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 575 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #236 / 323
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2661 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #389 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1678 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #421 / 563
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swaraj Dash
Github:

entered into 18 challenges

contributed 0 challenges