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Played Challenges

From brakets to parens - 1134 entries

This is one of the most common problem when you wrap an array for error handling. Vim is useful when you convert foo[i][j][k] into foo(i, j, k) for many times.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #2 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 12
π - 298 entries

1200 π chars

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #11 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 12
Create json from a .env file - 1581 entries

A simple everyday task.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #31 / 375
  • Number of attempts: 19
Reordering properties - 1215 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #11 / 278
  • Number of attempts: 31
Changing date formats - 710 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #8 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 31
YAML to dotenv - 1542 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #50 / 316
  • Number of attempts: 18
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 447 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #11 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 5
Generate an entry for each month - 372 entries

The input file contains a URI with a month in it. Generate the URIs for all the other months up to a couple of years

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #18 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 21
Fix the git merge conflicts - 332 entries

Solve the merge conflicts in the Python file

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #4 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 19
Nested JSON Flattener - 132 entries

Transform a deeply nested JSON structure into a flattened key-value format where each path is represented by dot notation

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #3 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 14
Replace markdown sections with numbering - 309 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #18 / 85
  • Number of attempts: 17
Fix the Scala Method - 338 entries

Fix the missing semicolons and the Int type, ensure the floating point division, and remove the unnecessary return.

  • Best score: 2
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #43 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 12
Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 617 entries

This is the reverse of the previous challenge: https://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/9v006705493c000000000513

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #39 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 17
Reorganize Pokémon - 829 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #35 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 10
Replace csv column if it's not empty - 270 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #38 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 6
Convert plain text into a markdown table - 96 entries

Convert the table to markdown to make it more usable

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #4 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 17
extract struct tag in go - 153 entries

Can you extract all struct tags in the fewest keystrokes possible?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #3 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 17
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #2 - 99 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4xc4jQO7ck&t=1429s

  • Best score: 49
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #7 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 11
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 270 entries

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

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #23 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 8
Append leading hyphen count to each line - 134 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #7 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 10
Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 228 entries

Take the list of UUIDs and use them as a filter in the where statement of a SQL query

  • Best score: 57
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #6 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 8
Markdown Blog Editing - 467 entries

Convert the given link text in start file to a markdown link list.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #11 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 13
Word completion - 284 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #27 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 14
Search different SQL column with similar where clause - 336 entries

Replace a column in the where clause and convert all numbers from text to numeric, by replacing the leading 0 with the code 359.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #18 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 10
Remove adjacent duplicates - 692 entries

Try to find a way to remove adjacent duplicate letters.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #19 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 17
Move to corresponding lines - 320 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #7 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 12
Rearrange array to single level - 1791 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #19 / 299
  • Number of attempts: 18
Rearrange array to one line - 840 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #28 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 16
Copy punctuation - 715 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #19 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 16
Change LaTex itemizations formats - 129 entries

Inspired by the way my professor formats their LaTeX assignments.

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #5 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 13
Column wise pasting - 256 entries

Make a table from 3 columns

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #11 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 14
Deleting text - 337 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #7 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 15
Resolve the spreadsheet - 37 entries

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

  • Best score: 118
  • Best player score: 176
  • Position: #6 / 8
  • Number of attempts: 11
Case matching substitution - 82 entries

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

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #7 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 11
Define Gray code states - 53 entries

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

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #5 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 11
Hex to binary - 128 entries

Convert hexadecimal numbers into binary format.

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #6 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 14
Count words - 120 entries

Merge duplicates and count each word.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #7 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 11
String decompression - 39 entries

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

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #9 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reverse even lines - 42 entries

Reverse only the even lines without altering the odd lines.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #3 / 13
  • Number of attempts: 9
Format a long line - 127 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #6 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 14
Evil Numbers - 115 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #10 / 27
  • Number of attempts: 12
Mirror image - 125 entries

Add the second eye

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #7 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 19
Coordinate extraction - 66 entries

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

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #6 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 11
Morse - 178 entries

Translate Morse code to Text

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #4 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 23
New teacher - 1480 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #30 / 310
  • Number of attempts: 13
Truth Table to ModelSim - 65 entries

Convert this truth table to simulator instructions!

  • Best score: 64
  • Best player score: 64
  • Position: #5 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 7
Replace word while reserving first letter case - 664 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #30 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 16
months to html list items - 1135 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #47 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 8
Instance creation in Verilog - 48 entries

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

  • Best score: 107
  • Best player score: 140
  • Position: #6 / 10
  • Number of attempts: 7
Quicksort - 2096 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: 6
  • Position: #141 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 11
EDN reformat - 1209 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #13 / 170
  • Number of attempts: 16
Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 449 entries

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

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #8 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 21
Populate 3D bone names list - 652 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #41 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 12
Remove line numbers - 779 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 16
Find fix point of cos - 1480 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #81 / 432
  • Number of attempts: 7
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 500 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #7 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 25
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 577 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #246 / 325
  • Number of attempts: 2
Easier Align - 442 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #5 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 21
Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #115 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 11
Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 424 entries

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

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #47 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 5
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 769 entries

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

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #10 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 13
HS exam question - 1610 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #45 / 420
  • Number of attempts: 11
Reformat symbols in list - 1649 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #68 / 355
  • Number of attempts: 11
Fizzbuzz - 612 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #3 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 20
Substraction (bis) - 637 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #10 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 16
Changing around text with citations - 361 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #25 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 21
Poorly indented Python comments - 1348 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #57 / 224
  • Number of attempts: 16
Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #45 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 5
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 660 entries

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

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #31 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 12
delete swap - 1843 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #392 / 573
  • Number of attempts: 8
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1294 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #68 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 9
Fix the shell script! - 2676 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #63 / 622
  • Number of attempts: 9
Visual block training - 1116 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #14 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 20
Innocent Monster - 229 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

  • Best score: 60
  • Best player score: 60
  • Position: #6 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 12
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1681 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #47 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 7
Java to JavaScript - 299 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #15 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 14
Wikitext headings to markdown - 1029 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #53 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 12
hello-world-vimgolf - 2525 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #348 / 724
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 903 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #59 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 306 entries

Who even sorted this?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #24 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 16
Solve anagram with ASCII letters - 63 entries

ASCII created by TOIlet command

  • Best score: 46
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #4 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 9
Fill in the chess board - 979 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #37 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 20
Learn to ask for :help - 593 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #25 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 6
Plotting some variables in python - 1684 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #61 / 353
  • Number of attempts: 8
Transpose a python matrix - 901 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #21 / 139
  • Number of attempts: 28
Create a diamond comment - 355 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #16 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 18
Lowercase first characters - 499 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: 33
  • Position: #38 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 9
Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 124 entries

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

  • Best score: 74
  • Best player score: 74
  • Position: #3 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 17
Write Hello World in the 'i use arch btw' -programming language - 38 entries

> "I use Arch btw" is an esoteric programming language based on Brainfuck in which the Brainfuck commands have been replaced with the following keywords: i, use, arch, linux, btw, by, the, way. https://github.com/OverMighty/i-use-arch-btw

  • Best score: 162
  • Best player score: 162
  • Position: #4 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 7
Migrated to Postgres! - 348 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #14 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 10
Increment number for every 10 lines - 245 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #8 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 14
simple replacements - 1873 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #99 / 401
  • Number of attempts: 15
Inverting Lines - 1954 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #238 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 9
CSV to MD format - 448 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #17 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 12
Generate a very basic Python constructor - 336 entries

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

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #24 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 13
Python dataclasses - 1248 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #88 / 311
  • Number of attempts: 8
Count to 100 in word form - 160 entries

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

  • Best score: 53
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #7 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 10
RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 394 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #28 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 16
RUST match with enum for Coin - 195 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

  • Best score: 84
  • Best player score: 84
  • Position: #3 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 9
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 343 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #187 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1434 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #77 / 331
  • Number of attempts: 9
Staircase - 166 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #6 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 14
vimtutor, but you can cheat - 37 entries

It's time to revisit vimtutor, but as an experienced Vim user! Your goal is to change the file to appear as if you had gone through the tutorial, but you do NOT need to actually complete the tutorial as written or do anything that doesn't result in changes to the file. You may use whatever you have in your Vim toolbelt that's allowed under VimGolf rules. The whole tutorial is too large to submit, so only the relevant lesson headers and associated practice lines are presented in this challenge. You will have to reference the tutor for the original instructions if you need them: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vim/vim/4466ad6baa22485abb1147aca3340cced4778a66/runtime/tutor/tutor

  • Best score: 142
  • Best player score: 142
  • Position: #2 / 12
  • Number of attempts: 13
Enumerate Bullets - 337 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #28 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 7
Put a cross in the square - 243 entries

Put a cross in the square

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #16 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 8
swap number pairs - 2169 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #61 / 393
  • Number of attempts: 16
HS Final exam vimgolf - 933 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #40 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 9
Extend shell script - 155 entries

Just add some more stuff

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #11 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 17
Easy modification of ssh config - 397 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #28 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 15
ssh config skills - 278 entries

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

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #14 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 20
Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 338 entries

Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #25 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 19
C to python code snippet - 101 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: 48
  • Position: #4 / 31
  • Number of attempts: 13
Mr. Hacker - 98 entries

Elvin is hacker. He has piece of users database from some social net site. Recently he installed Vim, and he wants to convert CSV DB to specific format `key=value' where `key' is login and `value' is password, but password in DB is encrypted in ROT13. Help him.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #19 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 8
Python: Def to Lambda - 474 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #92 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 14
Turn the x - 339 entries

Turn the x to a +

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #23 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 8
Format the CSS - 165 entries

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

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #9 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 7
Rural Post - 4591 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #215 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 7
Levenshtein distance - 122 entries

Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #5 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 17
Satisfy the go linter - 2482 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #172 / 494
  • Number of attempts: 8
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1039 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #97 / 329
  • Number of attempts: 5
Multiline to Single Line - 751 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #267 / 320
  • Number of attempts: 3
Data reformat - 319 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #3 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 15
xrandr outputs and dashes - 730 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #156 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 5
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 796 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #63 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 13
Capitalize the Names - 429 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #52 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 16
Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #412 / 535
  • Number of attempts: 2
C# function to F# - 40 entries

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

  • Best score: 101
  • Best player score: 101
  • Position: #3 / 12
  • Number of attempts: 10
C# data class to F# record - 88 entries

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

  • Best score: 63
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #9 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 9
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1158 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #47 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2431 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #61 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 4
Get mail address from outlook format - 656 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #86 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 161 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #28 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 9
Add text at some column - 178 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #25 / 67
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #362 / 1289
  • Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #456 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 9
citizen_hacks_2019_part1 - 65 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 52
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #8 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #777 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 9
Right Align Part of the line - 144 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: 19
  • Position: #8 / 43
  • Number of attempts: 11
Quote modules - 1099 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #43 / 287
  • Number of attempts: 4
TAR archive pretty print - 38 entries

Will you use isk ?

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #6 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 7
add line and index - 111 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #5 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 11
Aliases for cd - 908 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #22 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 23
Quote modules (ver.2) - 253 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #11 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 12
Wget failed to download redirections - 226 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #15 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 13
Separate the lines - 197 entries

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

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #61 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 6
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 204 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #70 / 105
  • Number of attempts: 2
Palindrome numbers - 34 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #10 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #113 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 13
Unsemantic linewrapping - 943 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: #106 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 8
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #29 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 5
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 348 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #29 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 9
Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #76 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 7
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1269 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #66 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap the operands under comparison - 318 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #29 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #774 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 2078 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #40 / 540
  • Number of attempts: 6
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #163 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 15
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #514 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 7
Com(m)a Trouble - 3987 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #189 / 907
  • Number of attempts: 8
My cafe needs a new menu - 36 entries

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

  • Best score: 126
  • Best player score: 126
  • Position: #4 / 9
  • Number of attempts: 5
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 41 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #36 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract wireshark capture filter - 234 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #11 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 7
citizen_hacks_2019_part4 - 28 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #4 / 13
  • Number of attempts: 5
citizen_hacks_2019_part2 - 39 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 40
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #4 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #458 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 5
citizen_hacks_2019_part5 - 37 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #5 / 12
  • Number of attempts: 5
citizen_hacks_2019_part3 - 33 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 57
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #4 / 10
  • Number of attempts: 7
citizen_hacks_2019_part6 - 35 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #8 / 13
  • Number of attempts: 5
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 146 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #24 / 51
  • Number of attempts: 3
Triangular Numbers - 110 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #21 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 6
Hash staircase - 59 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #18 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 3
Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #73 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 10
multiple cursor alternative - 1556 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #99 / 386
  • Number of attempts: 9
html paragraph to table - 634 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #23 / 130
  • Number of attempts: 19
From argument to object - 1552 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #169 / 469
  • Number of attempts: 4
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 767 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #61 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 16
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #86 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 9
Copy three lines - 2909 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #186 / 644
  • Number of attempts: 15
Convert Application Output to CSV - 223 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #39 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 11
Array propagate - 346 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #29 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 2
Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 83 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #9 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 9
Start coding format - 159 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #34 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 4
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 557 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: 30
  • Position: #25 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 8
Number Sort - 321 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: #146 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #244 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 13
comment and uncomment code inline - 1158 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #169 / 329
  • Number of attempts: 7
Letterbox - 161 entries

Make a box!

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #6 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 15
Flip the bit - 140 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #43 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 3
The D a n k Side of the Moon - 64 entries

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

  • Best score: 40
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #9 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1522 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 2
On Being Stylish - 92 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #7 / 22
  • Number of attempts: 11
Extract HTML option values from tag values - 126 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #11 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 10
Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #288 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 6
Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #16 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 10
Learn some german verbs - 547 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: 21
  • Position: #56 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 6
Un"finnish"ed Work - 126 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #21 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 7
Todo list specification - 408 entries

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

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #102 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 3
Subnetting - 142 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #17 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 11
Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 62 entries

sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #7 / 22
  • Number of attempts: 11
Text to HTML Table - 197 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

  • Best score: 52
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #23 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 12
Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 35 entries

Convert from one format to another

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #4 / 13
  • Number of attempts: 8
For all cases. - 169 entries

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

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #96 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 277 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #43 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 6
Splits long lines in more readable ones - 18 entries

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

  • Best score: 54
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #3 / 7
  • Number of attempts: 5
Stairstep digits - 410 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #57 / 150
  • Number of attempts: 3
Format java properties - 100 entries

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

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #14 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 11
Lenny Spiral - 20 entries

Make one lenny into an infinite army of lennys.

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #5 / 9
  • Number of attempts: 4
Back to the roots - 74 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3 / 41
  • Number of attempts: 5
Flatten repo - 40 entries

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

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #5 / 13
  • Number of attempts: 10
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 72 entries

I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #36 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 5
Missing Library and a Typo - 952 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #3 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 9
Long prime list - filter version - 43 entries

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

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #5 / 11
  • Number of attempts: 9
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #285 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple addition - 337 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #64 / 125
  • Number of attempts: 5
Hidden Message - 103 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #12 / 31
  • Number of attempts: 10
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 189 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 13
create arrows in a list - 136 entries

Add arrow at same distance

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #68 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 6
Adam's challenge - 1018 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #105 / 278
  • Number of attempts: 8
sort python functions and methods alphabetically - 34 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #9 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 5
42-header - 55 entries

Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #7 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 8
Create a table - 342 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #51 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 9
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 884 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #168 / 296
  • Number of attempts: 4
Nesting SASS - 296 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #46 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 9
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 195 entries

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

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #4 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 9
Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 46 entries

Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #8 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 6
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 189 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: 25
  • Position: #9 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 8
Add to end of each line... kinda - 344 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #114 / 177
  • Number of attempts: 5
Combines all items - 316 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #90 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 3
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 248 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #31 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 6
Wrap text in quotes - 374 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #50 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 6
underscore_to_camelCase - 187 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #33 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 9
Fun With The Diagonal - 110 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #80 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 2
JSON string rotation - 77 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #9 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 13
ninja substitution - 1436 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #88 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 9
Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #633 / 2151
  • Number of attempts: 8
Double and switch - 48 entries

Aaaanother case switcher

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #11 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 5
Pretty multi-line bash - 240 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #31 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 5
7th Birthday - 220 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #22 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 10
Free hyphen! - 191 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #40 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 6
C Reformatting - 709 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #25 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 17
Convert pasted text into Markdown - 38 entries

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

  • Best score: 46
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #3 / 15
  • Number of attempts: 6
Paragraph sort - 456 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #47 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 6
SQL to YAML - 58 entries

Should be easy with vim, or not?

  • Best score: 71
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #2 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 6
Triangle of arrows - 214 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #16 / 45
  • Number of attempts: 15
Lower cased and dashed strings - 51 entries

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

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #3 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vim's not included features - 256 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #11 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 6
Sorting a glossary - 134 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: #76 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort files from hosts - 202 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #27 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 7
Order and join - 1009 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #85 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph breaks - 533 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #48 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 6
Array of characters - 192 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #20 / 48
  • Number of attempts: 17
comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #313 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 5
Mirrored text - 197 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #24 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 12
lipsum lines - 296 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #20 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 18
Inner hyphens - 145 entries

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

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #15 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 2
Angular naming conventions - 341 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #49 / 120
  • Number of attempts: 15
Replace and keep the case - 448 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #59 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 8
Sudoku table - 104 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #7 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 12
Change attribute to getter - 172 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #38 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 9
Scrambled numbers - 829 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #46 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 15
Alsa configuration - 525 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #54 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 12
Align commas - 1105 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #101 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 8
ascii-art diamond - 55 entries

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

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #2 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 11
Create bison tokens - 57 entries

Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words

  • Best score: 85
  • Best player score: 85
  • Position: #6 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 9
A grid of punctuation - 145 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #33 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 5
Manual SQL - 177 entries

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

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #4 / 51
  • Number of attempts: 17
mp3 - Cutlist - 50 entries

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

  • Best score: 64
  • Best player score: 64
  • Position: #1 / 15
  • Number of attempts: 8
Maze path - 52 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #5 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hello ${world} - 344 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #39 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 8
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 102 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #57 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #69 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 3
Python challenge - 203 entries

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

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #12 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 23
One to Ten - 2246 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #375 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 679 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #73 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 7
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 152 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #54 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat Cura settings - 142 entries

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

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #10 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 10
Line under headers - 2093 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #23 / 514
  • Number of attempts: 8
Build a six - 314 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #65 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 7
Comparing Schema With Diff - 57 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #6 / 11
  • Number of attempts: 5
Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #60 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 16
ASCII Art - 90 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #35 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 2
simple format (3) - 93 entries

reverse two column values!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #9 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 7
Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 50 entries

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

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #5 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 7
Around the clock - 212 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #41 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 7
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 67 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 3
  • Best player score: 3
  • Position: #51 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 1
Back to the Future - 8 entries

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

  • Best score: 126
  • Best player score: 126
  • Position: #1 / 5
  • Number of attempts: 2
Join 'em - 254 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #28 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 2
snowflake fractal - 58 entries

From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #12 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 7
Delete to the end of the current line - 865 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #286 / 415
  • Number of attempts: 1
Song Transcription Oops - 255 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #60 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 11
change parenthesis - 301 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #98 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 2
Label grid cells (6x6) - 63 entries

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

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #6 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 10
Remove quotes after first field - 408 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #37 / 95
  • Number of attempts: 15
Put the months in order - 998 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #23 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 19
Separating firstname & lastname - 181 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #11 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 9
Reorder the groups - 1195 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #97 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 10
Add Go XML to structure tags - 195 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #6 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 11
move titles next to url, in quotes - 558 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #16 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 7
Restore order to the alphabet - 209 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #15 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 8
Array transposition - 2470 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #50 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 8
convert yml into java pojo field - 873 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #95 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 6
Assign numbers to fields - 121 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #30 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 5
Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #99 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 8
unknown command - 175 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #74 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 5
No naked if allowed! - 43 entries

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

  • Best score: 46
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #6 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 4
Kolakoski sequence -- level 2 - 23 entries

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

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #2 / 9
  • Number of attempts: 7
Binary and Increment - 67 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #3 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 11
From A to B - 603 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #60 / 160
  • Number of attempts: 12
Entries sort - 101 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #23 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple format (2) - 342 entries

try again!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #21 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #534 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 6
Rail fence transposition cipher - 97 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #8 / 27
  • Number of attempts: 13
camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #78 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 3
Land of the Lost - 96 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #2 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 15
swap or reverse - 130 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #58 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 4
readability - 331 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #83 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 4
Interleave lines - 208 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #11 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 23
Logging with key - 342 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #27 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 14
Space out the alphabet - 1686 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #114 / 451
  • Number of attempts: 8
Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 54 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #6 / 16
  • Number of attempts: 9
remove all lines in first part - 223 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: 13
  • Position: #4 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 12
Not enough Ps - 74 entries

Different type of code

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #29 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 6
Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 97 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #6 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 15
Fill visual area - 107 entries

Just have fun!

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #11 / 39
  • Number of attempts: 16
Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #67 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 11
Line 'em up! - 426 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #42 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 5
Shuffled numbers - 254 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #43 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 7
ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #43 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 11
50 factorials mod 97 - 69 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #9 / 22
  • Number of attempts: 10
Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #152 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove hard line breaks - 77 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: 10
  • Position: #12 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 3
Custom McCarthy sequence - 54 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #4 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 10
Conway sequence - 28 entries

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

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #20 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 2
Greek column realign - 61 entries

Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #14 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 10
Winning streak - 156 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #5 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 17
Sorting database text output - 228 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #41 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 5
Config Sections - 65 entries

Section me!

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #7 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 12
Refactoring useless Method away - 134 entries

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

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #8 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 10
Test everything! - 206 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #8 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 19
Condensed Cases - 820 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #68 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 8
increment by column in XML - 165 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #10 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 13
Square numbers - 132 entries

Boring math puzzle.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #6 / 44
  • Number of attempts: 7
Pretty format for variable declarations - 183 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #6 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 9
Simple Maths - 66 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #4 / 28
  • Number of attempts: 9
Happy TvvO - 436 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #159 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 4
C to VimDict - 59 entries

Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #7 / 16
  • Number of attempts: 6
range(10) digit rotation - 43 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #16 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1146 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 10
Shift down - 223 entries

Number words are back.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #23 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 14
learn vim in short time - 245 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #134 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 94 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #5 / 29
  • Number of attempts: 16
Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #26 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 5
Winding path - 143 entries

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

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #9 / 43
  • Number of attempts: 21
Resort and deup a CSV list - 184 entries

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

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #16 / 45
  • Number of attempts: 14
[Real World] PHP To Markdown - 39 entries

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

  • Best score: 141
  • Best player score: 156
  • Position: #6 / 10
  • Number of attempts: 6
Rule 110 - 56 entries

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

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #5 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 10
Pascal's Triangle - 41 entries

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

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #14 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 3
Santa's naughty / nice list - 104 entries

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

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #9 / 28
  • Number of attempts: 13
If-then-else regexp - 59 entries

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

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #10 / 15
  • Number of attempts: 6
citizen_hacks_2019_part9 - 38 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #7 / 12
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple Maths 2 - 48 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #8 / 17
  • Number of attempts: 4
Tiny column alignment - 73 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #9 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 12
ASCII-art Histogram - 333 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #12 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 13
Array Transposition - 215 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #6 / 58
  • Number of attempts: 13
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge1 - 55 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #42 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 1
Alphabet soup - 445 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #21 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 9
calculations - 321 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #21 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 8
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