Played Challenges
Quicksort - 1458 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: 24
- Position: #141 / 317
- Number of attempts: 1
EDN reformat - 936 entries
The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #69 / 134
- Number of attempts: 1
Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 325 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: 37
- Position: #37 / 71
- Number of attempts: 1
Populate 3D bone names list - 405 entries
Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #37 / 106
- Number of attempts: 1
Find fix point of cos - 1075 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: 15
- Position: #117 / 313
- Number of attempts: 1
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 464 entries
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #6 / 255
- Number of attempts: 2
Paste a column after a column - 2170 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #218 / 464
- Number of attempts: 2
Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 357 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: 29
- Position: #72 / 106
- Number of attempts: 2
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 607 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: 59
- Position: #68 / 159
- Number of attempts: 1
HS exam question - 1468 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #113 / 388
- Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1218 entries
Quick and easy
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #163 / 397
- Number of attempts: 1
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 580 entries
The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 59
- Position: #102 / 141
- Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 1466 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #152 / 465
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1171 entries
Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #163 / 244
- Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1554 entries
Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #358 / 518
- Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2307 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #451 / 652
- Number of attempts: 1
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 825 entries
Speak in tongues
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #184 / 251
- Number of attempts: 1
Learn to ask for :help - 510 entries
Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #57 / 118
- Number of attempts: 2
Plotting some variables in python - 1541 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: 44
- Position: #157 / 328
- Number of attempts: 1
Lowercase first characters - 458 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: 37
- Position: #79 / 172
- Number of attempts: 1
Migrated to Postgres! - 299 entries
Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #78 / 118
- Number of attempts: 1
simple replacements - 1536 entries
The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #162 / 336
- Number of attempts: 1
Inverting Lines - 1797 entries
A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #327 / 486
- Number of attempts: 1
RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 320 entries
RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #70 / 95
- Number of attempts: 2
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 303 entries
Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Position: #111 / 193
- Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1331 entries
Modernise and clean up some C++ code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #149 / 306
- Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2002 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #157 / 369
- Number of attempts: 1
HS Final exam vimgolf - 864 entries
Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #116 / 227
- Number of attempts: 1
Easy modification of ssh config - 335 entries
Just add another alias to each worker
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #59 / 104
- Number of attempts: 1
C to python code snippet - 78 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: 62
- Position: #15 / 27
- Number of attempts: 2
Mr. Hacker - 78 entries
Elvin is hacker. He has piece of users database from some social net site. Recently he installed Vim, and he wants to convert CSV DB to specific format `key=value' where `key' is login and `value' is password, but password in DB is encrypted in ROT13. Help him.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #22 / 32
- Number of attempts: 1
Python: Def to Lambda - 423 entries
LAMBDA!!!
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #127 / 149
- Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4351 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #638 / 1066
- Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 2169 entries
You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #271 / 434
- Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 872 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #225 / 274
- Number of attempts: 1
Multiline to Single Line - 596 entries
Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #211 / 268
- Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 652 entries
uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #175 / 213
- Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 738 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #112 / 165
- Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1107 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #373 / 512
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1089 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: 40
- Position: #189 / 222
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33353 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: 25
- Position: #3098 / 7358
- Number of attempts: 2
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 875 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #169 / 253
- Number of attempts: 1
Get mail address from outlook format - 621 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #79 / 196
- Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 151 entries
When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #47 / 51
- Number of attempts: 1
Add text at some column - 154 entries
Complete golang struct statement.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #44 / 60
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4535 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #636 / 1255
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6201 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #736 / 1514
- Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_part1 - 36 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 63
- Position: #11 / 14
- Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18613 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #2631 / 3841
- Number of attempts: 1
Right Align Part of the line - 117 entries
The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #25 / 38
- Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules - 1046 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #172 / 272
- Number of attempts: 1
Quote modules (ver.2) - 211 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #50 / 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Wget failed to download redirections - 184 entries
Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #45 / 63
- Number of attempts: 1
Separate the lines - 175 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #4 / 89
- Number of attempts: 1
vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #116 / 131
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 189 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #89 / 99
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #312 / 569
- Number of attempts: 1
Unsemantic linewrapping - 890 entries
[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #98 / 224
- Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4743 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #796 / 1878
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #482 / 840
- Number of attempts: 1
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 302 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #47 / 68
- Number of attempts: 1
Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #155 / 254
- Number of attempts: 1
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1177 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: 30
- Position: #174 / 243
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap the operands under comparison - 270 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #58 / 98
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10785 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1759 / 3042
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 1999 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #328 / 514
- Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2124 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #563 / 629
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3528 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #99 / 1142
- Number of attempts: 3
Word Blender - 146 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: 71
- Position: #47 / 55
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3654 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #431 / 821
- Number of attempts: 1
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 676 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #188 / 384
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 35 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Position: #27 / 32
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract wireshark capture filter - 198 entries
Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #42 / 67
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7818 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #1103 / 1861
- Number of attempts: 1
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 125 entries
In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #34 / 44
- Number of attempts: 1
Cool or not? - 793 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #162 / 226
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1474 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #239 / 376
- Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1474 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #167 / 450
- Number of attempts: 1
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #124 / 174
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #481 / 700
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2839 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #448 / 634
- Number of attempts: 1
Array propagate - 319 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #62 / 115
- Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2308 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #544 / 742
- Number of attempts: 1
Start coding format - 147 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #56 / 70
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #926 / 1585
- Number of attempts: 2
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 538 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #88 / 127
- Number of attempts: 1
Number Sort - 303 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: #3 / 162
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2554 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #484 / 694
- Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #229 / 314
- Number of attempts: 2
Flip the bit - 119 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #35 / 70
- Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11346 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1506 / 4160
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1805 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #518 / 581
- Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1039 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #190 / 271
- Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 531 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: 26
- Position: #77 / 131
- Number of attempts: 1
Interweave two blocks of text - 630 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: 19
- Position: #158 / 211
- Number of attempts: 1
Un"finnish"ed Work - 107 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #22 / 56
- Number of attempts: 1
Todo list specification - 385 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #105 / 176
- Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 936 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: 43
- Position: #158 / 363
- Number of attempts: 2
For all cases. - 141 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #24 / 100
- Number of attempts: 2
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 257 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #44 / 138
- Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 376 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #55 / 141
- Number of attempts: 1
Back to the roots - 52 entries
Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #29 / 36
- Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 856 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #150 / 209
- Number of attempts: 1
Acute accents - 32 entries
Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #21 / 24
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5584 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #773 / 1257
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple addition - 307 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #60 / 116
- Number of attempts: 1
Hidden Message - 74 entries
Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #19 / 28
- Number of attempts: 1
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 161 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #69 / 77
- Number of attempts: 2
create arrows in a list - 103 entries
Add arrow at same distance
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #11 / 70
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 950 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: 23
- Position: #205 / 265
- Number of attempts: 1
Create Leading Zeros - 232 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #50 / 79
- Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 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: 14
- Position: #164 / 287
- Number of attempts: 3
Nesting SASS - 261 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #68 / 93
- Number of attempts: 1
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 178 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: 36
- Position: #44 / 51
- Number of attempts: 1
Add to end of each line... kinda - 323 entries
Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #112 / 170
- Number of attempts: 1
Combines all items - 303 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #90 / 137
- Number of attempts: 1
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 231 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: 19
- Position: #69 / 81
- Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #89 / 120
- Number of attempts: 1
underscore_to_camelCase - 162 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #36 / 80
- Number of attempts: 2
Fun With The Diagonal - 103 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #12 / 79
- Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1372 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #205 / 261
- Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7778 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1019 / 2095
- Number of attempts: 1
Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #49 / 75
- Number of attempts: 1
7th Birthday - 186 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: 27
- Position: #59 / 73
- Number of attempts: 2
Free hyphen! - 159 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: 11
- Position: #36 / 85
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 430 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #108 / 123
- Number of attempts: 1
Triangle of arrows - 166 entries
I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #30 / 39
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting a glossary - 118 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #2 / 76
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort files from hosts - 179 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #67 / 74
- Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 948 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #207 / 254
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #109 / 165
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 998 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #9 / 418
- Number of attempts: 2
Mirrored text - 163 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #65 / 69
- Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 251 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #71 / 91
- Number of attempts: 1
Inner hyphens - 124 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #14 / 77
- Number of attempts: 1
Angular naming conventions - 295 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: 19
- Position: #58 / 113
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 407 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #101 / 115
- Number of attempts: 1
Change attribute to getter - 133 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #32 / 57
- Number of attempts: 1
Alsa configuration - 488 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #112 / 124
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1049 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #214 / 241
- Number of attempts: 2
A grid of punctuation - 124 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #45 / 57
- Number of attempts: 2
Manual SQL - 133 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 74
- Position: #36 / 47
- Number of attempts: 1
Hello ${world} - 299 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #67 / 94
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 88 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #45 / 61
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #71 / 136
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2159 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: 14
- Position: #406 / 660
- Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 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: 16
- Position: #153 / 203
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 137 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #64 / 73
- Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 1996 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #269 / 494
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment each number - 977 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #179 / 242
- Number of attempts: 1
ASCII Art - 82 entries
how good are you with simple regex?
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #38 / 52
- Number of attempts: 1
Around the clock - 188 entries
You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #61 / 74
- Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 59 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.
- Best score: 3
- Best player score: 3
- Position: #41 / 47
- Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 247 entries
This shouldn't be too tough
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Position: #15 / 147
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 738 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #249 / 363
- Number of attempts: 2
change parenthesis - 278 entries
change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #140 / 156
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove quotes after first field - 353 entries
Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #67 / 87
- Number of attempts: 1
Separating firstname & lastname - 120 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #43 / 55
- Number of attempts: 2
Reorder the groups - 1137 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #194 / 259
- Number of attempts: 1
Add Go XML to structure tags - 152 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #43 / 66
- Number of attempts: 1
Restore order to the alphabet - 188 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #59 / 68
- Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2378 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #315 / 443
- Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 829 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: 35
- Position: #181 / 223
- Number of attempts: 1
Assign numbers to fields - 105 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #31 / 59
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #137 / 266
- Number of attempts: 3
unknown command - 158 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #63 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 614 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #189 / 247
- Number of attempts: 3
Binary and Increment - 43 entries
Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #11 / 17
- Number of attempts: 1
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #127 / 155
- Number of attempts: 1
Cartesian product - 221 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #76 / 92
- Number of attempts: 1
Change your calendar - 352 entries
Happy New Year!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #59 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
Entries sort - 81 entries
It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #36 / 38
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4261 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #747 / 1185
- Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 531 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #40 / 342
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 769 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #151 / 274
- Number of attempts: 1
Land of the Lost - 77 entries
Enter the tabs below the lyrics
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #14 / 30
- Number of attempts: 1
swap or reverse - 115 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #60 / 66
- Number of attempts: 1
readability - 312 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #145 / 148
- Number of attempts: 1
Logging with key - 301 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #51 / 86
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #296 / 440
- Number of attempts: 1
remove all lines in first part - 190 entries
From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #61 / 65
- Number of attempts: 1
Not enough Ps - 66 entries
Different type of code
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #4 / 35
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 996 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #177 / 284
- Number of attempts: 1
Line 'em up! - 392 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: 19
- Position: #63 / 110
- Number of attempts: 2
ASCII box - 325 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #93 / 104
- Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #151 / 237
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove hard line breaks - 67 entries
Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #25 / 32
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting database text output - 219 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: 27
- Position: #69 / 81
- Number of attempts: 3
Test everything! - 162 entries
... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #30 / 52
- Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 788 entries
Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #151 / 242
- Number of attempts: 1
increment by column in XML - 146 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #43 / 53
- Number of attempts: 1
Square numbers - 99 entries
Boring math puzzle.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #24 / 40
- Number of attempts: 1
Pretty format for variable declarations - 155 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #36 / 62
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 403 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #10 / 200
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15922 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1425 / 4159
- Number of attempts: 3
Shift down - 193 entries
Number words are back.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #40 / 67
- Number of attempts: 3
learn vim in short time - 229 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2 / 157
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries
Implementing the methods of a Java Interface
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #18 / 25
- Number of attempts: 3
vim1001 - 275 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #50 / 107
- Number of attempts: 2
Roman numerals - 68 entries
Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #20 / 27
- Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3170 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #732 / 1127
- Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 997 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #133 / 350
- Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #75 / 114
- Number of attempts: 2
Change name of a variable - 169 entries
Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #4 / 132
- Number of attempts: 1
Lisp Condense - 438 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #91 / 154
- Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 468 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #93 / 143
- Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 724 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #187 / 267
- Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 125 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: 33
- Position: #30 / 56
- Number of attempts: 2
Refactor static member invocation - 198 entries
Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #43 / 63
- Number of attempts: 2
Winding path - 93 entries
It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 65
- Position: #30 / 40
- Number of attempts: 1
Comparing scores - 94 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: 43
- Position: #25 / 33
- Number of attempts: 1
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 226 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #59 / 99
- Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #117 / 293
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1978 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #276 / 578
- Number of attempts: 2
Two become one - 710 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #141 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 859 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #224 / 430
- Number of attempts: 2
Piphilology - 131 entries
Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #36 / 51
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1157 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #211 / 245
- Number of attempts: 3
Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #67 / 101
- Number of attempts: 1
HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 63 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: 33
- Best player score: 112
- Position: #29 / 33
- Number of attempts: 1
Going underground.... - 330 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #76 / 124
- Number of attempts: 1
Split the words - 356 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #94 / 108
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10616 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #1636 / 3663
- Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3444 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #331 / 692
- Number of attempts: 3
Ninjas Leaderboard - 84 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: 35
- Position: #17 / 38
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1594 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #178 / 511
- Number of attempts: 3
Untangle my tail, please! - 57 entries
You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #15 / 31
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3124 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: 17
- Position: #677 / 1071
- Number of attempts: 1
Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 69 entries
Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #9 / 28
- Number of attempts: 1
Top X - 191 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: 33
- Position: #56 / 69
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 345 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: 20
- Position: #90 / 105
- Number of attempts: 1
Number an outline - 246 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 66
- Position: #58 / 74
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12848 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1927 / 3943
- Number of attempts: 2
Pairs of numbers - 349 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: 51
- Position: #113 / 132
- Number of attempts: 1
Draw the Go board - 140 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: 72
- Position: #29 / 48
- Number of attempts: 1
paste indent correction - JS - 102 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #27 / 57
- Number of attempts: 1
Hole-in-one - 1012 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #185 / 302
- Number of attempts: 4
Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #69 / 225
- Number of attempts: 2
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 165 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: 24
- Position: #56 / 73
- Number of attempts: 1
Lookahead and Lookbehind - 67 entries
Look everywhere
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #22 / 29
- Number of attempts: 1
Word frequency alignment - 273 entries
You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #76 / 156
- Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 516 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #112 / 171
- Number of attempts: 1
Coordinates placeholder - 62 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #27 / 36
- Number of attempts: 1
fib.c cleanup - 66 entries
cleanup the file
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #31 / 54
- Number of attempts: 1
REDRUM - 149 entries
If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #55 / 61
- Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate words - 248 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #75 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 76 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: 19
- Position: #14 / 39
- Number of attempts: 1
Block Fun 1 - 188 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #57 / 72
- Number of attempts: 2
Groups magic - 146 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #53 / 88
- Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 591 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #85 / 192
- Number of attempts: 2
Refactor arguments into object argument - 161 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 76
- Position: #51 / 65
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort by your own sum - 69 entries
Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #23 / 27
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 57 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: 16
- Position: #26 / 36
- Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 279 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #106 / 217
- Number of attempts: 1
Python: Lots of function arguments - 101 entries
The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #37 / 45
- Number of attempts: 1
Readable Rubyhash - 243 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: 28
- Position: #53 / 91
- Number of attempts: 1
Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 93 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: 45
- Position: #29 / 35
- Number of attempts: 2
Dehamlizing - 179 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #36 / 69
- Number of attempts: 2
Changing URL path in CSS - 124 entries
What's the quickest way to swap out all the URLs in a CSS file? Is it wasted keystrokes using look-behinds and look-aheads? (I'm sorry for the delete/report--I made a mistake with the last one requiring an ugly search for graphic to replace with images. I just intended this to be a simple search and replace that might possibly generate some macros or normals solutions that are quicker)
- Best score: 40
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #48 / 58
- Number of attempts: 1
Checkerboard case pattern - 144 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #50 / 57
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 498 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #150 / 189
- Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle and Sort - 208 entries
The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #40 / 65
- Number of attempts: 2
Printable ASCII characters - 121 entries
From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #27 / 41
- Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 434 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #87 / 187
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 132 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: 35
- Position: #32 / 50
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 168 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: 28
- Position: #70 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract text from xml - 106 entries
Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #25 / 43
- Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 400 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: 11
- Position: #124 / 187
- Number of attempts: 1
The name of the game - 646 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #126 / 354
- Number of attempts: 1
Complete the circuit grid! - 81 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: 49
- Best player score: 69
- Position: #15 / 28
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 70 entries
Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #27 / 30
- Number of attempts: 4
lamb had a little Mary - 582 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #72 / 161
- Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1569 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: #30 / 437
- Number of attempts: 5
SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 99 entries
Move the pipes so they match the output.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #14 / 44
- Number of attempts: 2
Chucking wood - 103 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: 58
- Position: #29 / 45
- Number of attempts: 1
Stairs Indenting - 446 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #105 / 193
- Number of attempts: 1
Unwrap the text of an email message - 184 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: #18 / 72
- Number of attempts: 2
Python to Ruby - 195 entries
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #47 / 58
- Number of attempts: 1
Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 188 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: 42
- Position: #40 / 76
- Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #311 / 473
- Number of attempts: 4
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 163 entries
I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #42 / 56
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 96 entries
A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #38 / 70
- Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1084 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #46 / 440
- Number of attempts: 4
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 48 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #33 / 42
- Number of attempts: 1
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 335 entries
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #83 / 110
- Number of attempts: 1
Inconsistent real estate paste - 184 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #41 / 55
- Number of attempts: 3
Alphabet soup - 419 entries
Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #69 / 103
- Number of attempts: 1
Enharmonic Equivalents - 55 entries
Transform # and b to digraphs
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #5 / 34
- Number of attempts: 2
Flip the chessboard - 77 entries
White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #22 / 29
- Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2436 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #559 / 735
- Number of attempts: 2
Make the circuit grid! - 85 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: 26
- Position: #18 / 48
- Number of attempts: 3
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 220 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: 27
- Position: #59 / 67
- Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 820 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #99 / 224
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2925 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #572 / 764
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2064 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #532 / 647
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 1002 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #50 / 401
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse and double space - 489 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #138 / 194
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 693 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: #74 / 270
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #65 / 258
- Number of attempts: 3
un-C-escape string - 56 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #33 / 50
- Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5028 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1310 / 1734
- Number of attempts: 3
The meaning - 554 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #195 / 355
- Number of attempts: 1
Format the output - 145 entries
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 50
- Position: #25 / 39
- Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #122 / 185
- Number of attempts: 1
Replacing some words - 419 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #112 / 148
- Number of attempts: 1
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 212 entries
Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.
- Best score: 65
- Best player score: 127
- Position: #46 / 61
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 293 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #117 / 146
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1952 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #365 / 640
- Number of attempts: 1
Line Zipper - 450 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #178 / 210
- Number of attempts: 1
remove dupes from array - 1332 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: 22
- Position: #168 / 330
- Number of attempts: 1
Alphabetize the directory - 283 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #86 / 99
- Number of attempts: 1
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 507 entries
I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #78 / 148
- Number of attempts: 1
Complete the hex array data - 192 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #48 / 72
- Number of attempts: 1
Case preserving word replacement - 453 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: 21
- Position: #107 / 179
- Number of attempts: 2
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 154 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #47 / 67
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort entries based on date - 362 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #106 / 114
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy New Year! - 143 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #47 / 57
- Number of attempts: 1
imports alignment (python) - 661 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #165 / 194
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 260 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #93 / 97
- Number of attempts: 1
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 215 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #86 / 96
- Number of attempts: 1
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 388 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #131 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
Before there was Farmville... - 97 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
- Best score: 156
- Best player score: 225
- Position: #27 / 47
- Number of attempts: 3
HTML to Haml - 842 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 46
- Position: #151 / 202
- Number of attempts: 1
expand a list comprehension (python) - 301 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
- Best score: 42
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #60 / 106
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat long lines - 341 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #111 / 130
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 463 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #24 / 198
- Number of attempts: 3
Insert a Markdown link - 431 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #124 / 143
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1855 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #77 / 638
- Number of attempts: 3
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 148 entries
Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #59 / 69
- Number of attempts: 1
Solve the Sokoban - 161 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #48 / 71
- Number of attempts: 3
Java Array2List - 225 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
- Best score: 67
- Best player score: 105
- Position: #49 / 83
- Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 345 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #126 / 205
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1216 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: 14
- Position: #218 / 398
- Number of attempts: 2
Assignment Alignment - 829 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #149 / 215
- Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 1904 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: 15
- Position: #261 / 497
- Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 996 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: #332 / 641
- Number of attempts: 1
Round Round - 287 entries
Round Round
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 62
- Position: #45 / 84
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 302 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 106
- Best player score: 128
- Position: #64 / 140
- Number of attempts: 2
Table Reshuffle - 369 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #113 / 133
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 455 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: 21
- Position: #25 / 172
- Number of attempts: 2
Letters are numbers - 150 entries
Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #64 / 73
- Number of attempts: 1
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 237 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #68 / 85
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 compat - 609 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: 18
- Position: #168 / 229
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #274 / 454
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 643 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #55 / 398
- Number of attempts: 2
Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #109 / 156
- Number of attempts: 3
Indentation - 497 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #67 / 168
- Number of attempts: 3
Hatsuyume - 450 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #40 / 174
- Number of attempts: 3
Turn this csv list into queries - 204 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
- Best score: 98
- Best player score: 113
- Position: #29 / 95
- Number of attempts: 2
Dumb to smart - 96 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #48 / 54
- Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1284 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #337 / 511
- Number of attempts: 4
Fix the Haiku - 275 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: 41
- Position: #60 / 109
- Number of attempts: 2
Context insensitive completion 0 - 502 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: #84 / 231
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove Accent off the Letter - 106 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #27 / 49
- Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 365 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #86 / 132
- Number of attempts: 4
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 456 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #108 / 231
- Number of attempts: 2
Almost encrypted - 198 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #99 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1007 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #229 / 337
- Number of attempts: 3
Linear congruential generator - 128 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #35 / 50
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat some Python - 579 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #140 / 229
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat a C golf submission - 552 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: 32
- Position: #107 / 199
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 709 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #145 / 249
- Number of attempts: 2
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 187 entries
According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #35 / 64
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat most common surnames - 644 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #114 / 197
- Number of attempts: 2
Remember FizzBuzz? - 653 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #103 / 177
- Number of attempts: 2
Get rid of html tags - 368 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #88 / 217
- Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1457 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #437 / 552
- Number of attempts: 2
Deleting folded text - 338 entries
The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #80 / 113
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1321 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #166 / 527
- Number of attempts: 1
Add fold markers to a .c file - 550 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #51 / 170
- Number of attempts: 3
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1348 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: 25
- Position: #309 / 379
- Number of attempts: 3
Braces or Brackets? - 870 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #203 / 284
- Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3288 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #364 / 728
- Number of attempts: 2
Flodder-challenge - 1086 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #203 / 305
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12230 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1082 / 3567
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6511 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #591 / 1602
- Number of attempts: 1
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