Played Challenges
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 705 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #178 / 398
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #209 / 1604
- Number of attempts: 2
Interweave two blocks of text - 641 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: #3 / 212
- Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 955 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: 40
- Position: #20 / 371
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap assigned value - 628 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #11 / 252
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 346 entries
"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #10 / 106
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12868 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1174 / 3950
- Number of attempts: 4
Draw the Go board - 141 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: 64
- Position: #17 / 49
- Number of attempts: 3
paste indent correction - JS - 103 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: #5 / 58
- Number of attempts: 2
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 167 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: #15 / 75
- Number of attempts: 2
Word frequency alignment - 278 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: #62 / 159
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 519 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #4 / 173
- Number of attempts: 2
XML to JSON - 45 entries
Convert this xml file into json.
- Best score: 75
- Best player score: 87
- Position: #5 / 18
- Number of attempts: 3
Coordinates placeholder - 64 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #18 / 37
- Number of attempts: 1
Define to require - 119 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: 65
- Position: #11 / 49
- Number of attempts: 6
fib.c cleanup - 67 entries
cleanup the file
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #29 / 55
- Number of attempts: 1
REDRUM - 151 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: #12 / 63
- Number of attempts: 3
Enumerate words - 251 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #11 / 90
- Number of attempts: 5
Execute immediate SQL - 87 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
- Best score: 58
- Best player score: 67
- Position: #7 / 31
- Number of attempts: 8
Circle in a square - 141 entries
Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #21 / 53
- Number of attempts: 2
Block Fun 1 - 190 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #10 / 74
- Number of attempts: 5
Groups magic - 157 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: 13
- Position: #9 / 92
- Number of attempts: 3
Prefixes and suffixes - 599 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #5 / 195
- Number of attempts: 4
abcd > a b c d - 282 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #90 / 220
- Number of attempts: 3
Readable Rubyhash - 245 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: 26
- Position: #22 / 93
- Number of attempts: 4
Checkerboard case pattern - 149 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #36 / 59
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 506 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #10 / 194
- Number of attempts: 3
Shuffle and Sort - 210 entries
The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #7 / 66
- Number of attempts: 5
A simple change - 444 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #13 / 190
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 175 entries
Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #8 / 104
- Number of attempts: 3
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 404 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: 10
- Position: #52 / 190
- Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 654 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #101 / 359
- Number of attempts: 3
lamb had a little Mary - 596 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #8 / 164
- Number of attempts: 6
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #21 / 443
- Number of attempts: 6
SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 102 entries
Move the pipes so they match the output.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #4 / 46
- Number of attempts: 4
Stairs Indenting - 452 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2 / 195
- Number of attempts: 6
Unwrap the text of an email message - 188 entries
Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #16 / 73
- Number of attempts: 1
Python to Ruby - 198 entries
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #5 / 60
- Number of attempts: 7
Saving the hashes(#) - 2008 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: #5 / 476
- Number of attempts: 4
SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 99 entries
A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #37 / 72
- Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #27 / 442
- Number of attempts: 3
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 338 entries
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #7 / 112
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2487 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #4 / 748
- Number of attempts: 6
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 230 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: 17
- Position: #28 / 70
- Number of attempts: 3
Exchanging Quotes - 824 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #31 / 227
- Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #134 / 772
- Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 2085 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #54 / 653
- Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #38 / 410
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse and double space - 498 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #44 / 197
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 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: #61 / 272
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 639 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #58 / 261
- Number of attempts: 2
un-C-escape string - 58 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #31 / 52
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5045 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #145 / 1742
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 566 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #178 / 360
- Number of attempts: 30
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 978 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #18 / 188
- Number of attempts: 11
Replacing some words - 420 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #19 / 149
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort the cardinal numbers - 294 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #34 / 147
- Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 1955 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #31 / 643
- Number of attempts: 4
Line Zipper - 454 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #4 / 212
- Number of attempts: 4
remove dupes from array - 1345 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #46 / 333
- Number of attempts: 9
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 508 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: 24
- Position: #39 / 149
- Number of attempts: 3
Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #48 / 180
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort entries based on date - 364 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #36 / 115
- Number of attempts: 2
Happy New Year! - 144 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #30 / 58
- Number of attempts: 5
imports alignment (python) - 663 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #34 / 196
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 263 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #13 / 98
- Number of attempts: 5
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 392 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: #22 / 165
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 843 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #72 / 203
- Number of attempts: 2
expand a list comprehension (python) - 302 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: #12 / 107
- Number of attempts: 5
Generate English Alphabets - 476 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #126 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
Overall Vimgolf Rank - 171 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: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #2 / 58
- Number of attempts: 6
Insert a Markdown link - 434 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #61 / 145
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1869 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #89 / 646
- Number of attempts: 2
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 149 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: #18 / 70
- Number of attempts: 5
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #50 / 402
- Number of attempts: 6
Assignment Alignment - 842 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #31 / 217
- Number of attempts: 10
Shebangs for all - 1917 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: #8 / 502
- Number of attempts: 5
A Simple One - 1009 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: #319 / 648
- Number of attempts: 1
Table Reshuffle - 372 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #3 / 135
- Number of attempts: 9
Reverse and count - 459 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: 24
- Position: #73 / 174
- Number of attempts: 3
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 238 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #30 / 86
- Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #39 / 230
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #8 / 455
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #256 / 404
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 499 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #4 / 170
- Number of attempts: 6
Hatsuyume - 467 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #18 / 179
- Number of attempts: 5
The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #141 / 517
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the Haiku - 276 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: 29
- Position: #7 / 110
- Number of attempts: 7
Context insensitive completion 0 - 545 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: #82 / 239
- Number of attempts: 3
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 471 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #103 / 237
- Number of attempts: 1
Almost encrypted - 199 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #97 / 145
- Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #70 / 340
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat some Python - 590 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #27 / 233
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat a C golf submission - 574 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: 40
- Position: #170 / 203
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 732 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: #5 / 257
- Number of attempts: 6
Reformat most common surnames - 671 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #8 / 202
- Number of attempts: 5
Get rid of html tags - 378 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2 / 222
- Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1502 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #107 / 567
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #151 / 542
- Number of attempts: 2
Add fold markers to a .c file - 571 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #34 / 175
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1436 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #78 / 397
- Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #84 / 758
- Number of attempts: 9
Flodder-challenge - 1176 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #11 / 321
- Number of attempts: 11
Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #135 / 3626
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #222 / 1652
- Number of attempts: 5