VimGolf - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke!

Played Challenges

Easier Align - 78 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 62
Best player score: 88
Position: #7 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 375 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: 51
Best player score: 57
Position: #31 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat symbols in list - 1021 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #68 / 233
Number of attempts: 2

Fizzbuzz - 343 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 47
Best player score: 48
Position: #15 / 110
Number of attempts: 4

Substraction (bis) - 383 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #24 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

Changing around text with citations - 197 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #1 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

Poorly indented Python comments - 866 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #49 / 168
Number of attempts: 4

Many duplicates - 851 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #26 / 287
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 451 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 42
Position: #45 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1095 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #8 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 924 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 37
Position: #64 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 1728 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #3 / 418
Number of attempts: 7

Visual block training - 780 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #42 / 146
Number of attempts: 4

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1348 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #196 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

Wikitext headings to markdown - 781 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #3 / 172
Number of attempts: 2

hello-world-vimgolf - 1981 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1 / 564
Number of attempts: 1

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 212 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #1 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

Fill in the chess board - 737 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: #5 / 155
Number of attempts: 5

Learn to ask for :help - 461 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #4 / 107
Number of attempts: 7

Plotting some variables in python - 1396 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: #5 / 295
Number of attempts: 3

Transpose a python matrix - 684 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #4 / 117
Number of attempts: 5

Create a diamond comment - 271 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #12 / 66
Number of attempts: 5

Lowercase first characters - 421 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: 34
Position: #32 / 152
Number of attempts: 3

Migrated to Postgres! - 268 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #13 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Increment number for every 10 lines - 180 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: 26
Position: #8 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

simple replacements - 1264 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #4 / 283
Number of attempts: 2

Inverting Lines - 1562 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #14 / 423
Number of attempts: 3

CSV to MD format - 330 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 40
Position: #13 / 77
Number of attempts: 4

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 292 entries

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

Best score: 38
Best player score: 47
Position: #37 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 796 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #5 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

Count to 100 in word form - 54 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: 55
Best player score: 77
Position: #8 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 283 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #48 / 80
Number of attempts: 2

RUST match with enum for Coin - 168 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 93
Position: #11 / 46
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 237 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #3 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1103 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #3 / 261
Number of attempts: 2

Staircase - 83 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: 34
Position: #12 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 253 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #1 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

Put a cross in the square - 175 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #32 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 1871 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #57 / 346
Number of attempts: 5

HS Final exam vimgolf - 815 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #37 / 215
Number of attempts: 3

Extend shell script - 92 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 39
Position: #8 / 39
Number of attempts: 2

Easy modification of ssh config - 305 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #3 / 95
Number of attempts: 3

ssh config skills - 236 entries

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

Best score: 41
Best player score: 44
Position: #18 / 58
Number of attempts: 3

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 263 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: 25
Position: #24 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

Mr. Hacker - 76 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: #2 / 31
Number of attempts: 3

Python: Def to Lambda - 410 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #2 / 142
Number of attempts: 1

Turn the x - 275 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #20 / 71
Number of attempts: 4

Format the CSS - 109 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: 44
Position: #13 / 40
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4254 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #196 / 1044
Number of attempts: 4

Levenshtein distance - 88 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: 28
Best player score: 31
Position: #8 / 31
Number of attempts: 4

Satisfy the go linter - 2076 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: #4 / 422
Number of attempts: 2

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 845 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #91 / 267
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 585 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #29 / 260
Number of attempts: 3

Data reformat - 251 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #2 / 58
Number of attempts: 8

xrandr outputs and dashes - 624 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: #1 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 720 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: #3 / 160
Number of attempts: 2

Capitalize the Names - 330 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: #10 / 84
Number of attempts: 4

C# data class to F# record - 56 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: 76
Position: #8 / 14
Number of attempts: 2

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1054 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: 22
Position: #49 / 214
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33136 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: #108 / 7308
Number of attempts: 7

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 850 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #2 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 604 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #1 / 190
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 138 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: #6 / 48
Number of attempts: 3

Add text at some column - 147 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #20 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #356 / 1247
Number of attempts: 5

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #11 / 1493
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_part1 - 35 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 52
Best player score: 55
Position: #6 / 13
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18497 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1031 / 3815
Number of attempts: 12

Right Align Part of the line - 101 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: 20
Position: #8 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1024 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #41 / 263
Number of attempts: 6

TAR archive pretty print - 22 entries

Will you use isk ?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #2 / 10
Number of attempts: 2

add line and index - 81 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

Best score: 44
Best player score: 57
Position: #19 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 820 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #33 / 147
Number of attempts: 3

Quote modules (ver.2) - 197 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #24 / 53
Number of attempts: 6

Separate the lines - 171 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 185 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #7 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2442 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #109 / 565
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 861 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: #11 / 218
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4651 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1059 / 1864
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2793 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #26 / 827
Number of attempts: 3

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 295 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #1 / 66
Number of attempts: 5

Add string initializers to an enum - 836 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #2 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1124 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: #2 / 235
Number of attempts: 3

Swap the operands under comparison - 266 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #4 / 96
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #6 / 3023
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 1952 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #39 / 502
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #14 / 625
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #497 / 1128
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3511 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #164 / 789
Number of attempts: 3

Extract wireshark capture filter - 193 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #9 / 64
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7756 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #548 / 1847
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_part6 - 19 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 35
Best player score: 36
Position: #4 / 8
Number of attempts: 2

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 121 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: #7 / 42
Number of attempts: 3

Triangular Numbers - 88 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #5 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

Hash staircase - 41 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #1 / 20
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 767 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #71 / 220
Number of attempts: 1

multiple cursor alternative - 1453 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: #12 / 372
Number of attempts: 2

html paragraph to table - 587 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #7 / 122
Number of attempts: 6

From argument to object - 1441 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: #2 / 441
Number of attempts: 6

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 719 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #6 / 170
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #293 / 691
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2824 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #198 / 630
Number of attempts: 2

Convert Application Output to CSV - 180 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #2 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

Array propagate - 318 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #26 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2269 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #333 / 737
Number of attempts: 3

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 57 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #7 / 16
Number of attempts: 4

Start coding format - 136 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #3 / 66
Number of attempts: 3

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 527 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: #2 / 124
Number of attempts: 6

That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #87 / 689
Number of attempts: 4

comment and uncomment code inline - 1037 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: #3 / 305
Number of attempts: 3

Letterbox - 88 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 54
Position: #16 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Flip the bit - 115 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #3 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

The D a n k Side of the Moon - 40 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: #3 / 14
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #305 / 4144
Number of attempts: 8

On Being Stylish - 71 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #6 / 18
Number of attempts: 5

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 85 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: #2 / 39
Number of attempts: 9

Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #4 / 575
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #42 / 265
Number of attempts: 8

Learn some german verbs - 527 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: #5 / 129
Number of attempts: 3

Un"finnish"ed Work - 105 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #4 / 55
Number of attempts: 5

Todo list specification - 373 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: #3 / 170
Number of attempts: 2

Subnetting - 105 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #2 / 34
Number of attempts: 2

Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 20 entries

Convert from one format to another

Best score: 56
Best player score: 56
Position: #1 / 10
Number of attempts: 4

For all cases. - 131 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #6 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 247 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #3 / 132
Number of attempts: 3

Splits long lines in more readable ones - 10 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: 75
Position: #4 / 4
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 366 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #8 / 137
Number of attempts: 6

Format java properties - 71 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: #2 / 32
Number of attempts: 9

Lenny Spiral - 13 entries

Make one lenny into an infinite army of lennys.

Best score: 35
Best player score: 36
Position: #3 / 6
Number of attempts: 5

Back to the roots - 47 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #2 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 55 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: #1 / 33
Number of attempts: 3

Missing Library and a Typo - 838 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: 16
Position: #27 / 206
Number of attempts: 3

Acute accents - 31 entries

Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #12 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

Long prime list - filter version - 26 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: 58
Position: #8 / 8
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5489 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #401 / 1245
Number of attempts: 12

Simple addition - 301 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: #1 / 112
Number of attempts: 4

Hidden Message - 74 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #14 / 28
Number of attempts: 2

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 158 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #5 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 92 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #4 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 928 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: #2 / 261
Number of attempts: 2

Create a table - 309 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #2 / 100
Number of attempts: 2

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 825 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: #5 / 281
Number of attempts: 4

Nesting SASS - 257 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #5 / 91
Number of attempts: 16

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 161 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: 35
Position: #11 / 60
Number of attempts: 5

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: 27
Position: #17 / 51
Number of attempts: 5

Add to end of each line... kinda - 313 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: #52 / 164
Number of attempts: 1

Combines all items - 292 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #3 / 132
Number of attempts: 7

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 226 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: #14 / 78
Number of attempts: 4

Wrap text in quotes - 348 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #5 / 119
Number of attempts: 2

underscore_to_camelCase - 155 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: #4 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

Fun With The Diagonal - 99 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #4 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1336 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #11 / 255
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7643 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #76 / 2072
Number of attempts: 5

Double and switch - 37 entries

Aaaanother case switcher

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #6 / 17
Number of attempts: 3

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #2 / 75
Number of attempts: 4

7th Birthday - 185 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: 21
Position: #26 / 72
Number of attempts: 6

Free hyphen! - 156 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: #59 / 84
Number of attempts: 2

C Reformatting - 687 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #23 / 160
Number of attempts: 12

Paragraph sort - 421 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #53 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

SQL to YAML - 45 entries

Should be easy with vim, or not?

Best score: 72
Best player score: 73
Position: #6 / 20
Number of attempts: 6

Triangle of arrows - 144 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: #2 / 35
Number of attempts: 3

Lower cased and dashed strings - 46 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: 61
Position: #4 / 18
Number of attempts: 7

Sorting a glossary - 116 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: #3 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Sort files from hosts - 167 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #2 / 70
Number of attempts: 8

Order and join - 913 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #2 / 248
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph breaks - 497 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #46 / 163
Number of attempts: 7

Array of characters - 135 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: #4 / 41
Number of attempts: 9

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #3 / 414
Number of attempts: 3

lipsum lines - 247 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #1 / 89
Number of attempts: 4

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: #19 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

Angular naming conventions - 285 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: #11 / 111
Number of attempts: 3

Replace and keep the case - 405 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #8 / 114
Number of attempts: 8

Sudoku table - 58 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 50
Position: #7 / 27
Number of attempts: 2

Change attribute to getter - 127 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #2 / 53
Number of attempts: 5

Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #83 / 181
Number of attempts: 5

Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #7 / 123
Number of attempts: 8

Align commas - 1046 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: 15
Position: #107 / 238
Number of attempts: 8

ascii-art diamond - 35 entries

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

Best score: 40
Best player score: 41
Position: #3 / 15
Number of attempts: 5

Create bison tokens - 34 entries

Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words

Best score: 85
Best player score: 85
Position: #1 / 16
Number of attempts: 5

A grid of punctuation - 120 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #30 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Manual SQL - 114 entries

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

Best score: 49
Best player score: 56
Position: #13 / 44
Number of attempts: 5

mp3 - Cutlist - 28 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: 67
Best player score: 69
Position: #2 / 11
Number of attempts: 9

Hello ${world} - 298 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #3 / 93
Number of attempts: 5

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 82 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #8 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #66 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

Python challenge - 142 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: #2 / 42
Number of attempts: 5

One to Ten - 2123 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: #3 / 650
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 612 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: 15
Position: #66 / 197
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 129 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #6 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 1941 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #91 / 479
Number of attempts: 3

Build a six - 267 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #1 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 959 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #8 / 238
Number of attempts: 7

ASCII Art - 82 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #41 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

simple format (3) - 57 entries

reverse two column values!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #2 / 17
Number of attempts: 8

Greek Letters - 60 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #3 / 22
Number of attempts: 3

Around the clock - 186 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: #8 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

Join 'em - 238 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #28 / 141
Number of attempts: 2

snowflake fractal - 39 entries

From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #3 / 17
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 723 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #1 / 355
Number of attempts: 1

Song Transcription Oops - 227 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: #15 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 267 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #5 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Label grid cells (6x6) - 34 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: #2 / 15
Number of attempts: 2

Remove quotes after first field - 332 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #4 / 83
Number of attempts: 6

Put the months in order - 922 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 30
Position: #42 / 156
Number of attempts: 8

Reorder the groups - 1120 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #2 / 255
Number of attempts: 3

Add Go XML to structure tags - 151 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: 25
Position: #16 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

move titles next to url, in quotes - 497 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #29 / 131
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2321 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #48 / 434
Number of attempts: 3

Sierpinski's Triangle - 82 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #15 / 24
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 826 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: #3 / 222
Number of attempts: 4

Mirror Symmetry - 787 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #22 / 264
Number of attempts: 5

unknown command - 151 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #2 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #96 / 154
Number of attempts: 5

Simple format (2) - 321 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #28 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #109 / 1176
Number of attempts: 13

swap or reverse - 105 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #9 / 63
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #40 / 436
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the XML - 962 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #91 / 280
Number of attempts: 4

Line 'em up! - 384 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: 18
Position: #39 / 107
Number of attempts: 5

Conway sequence - 23 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: #8 / 18
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #187 / 4136
Number of attempts: 10

-a-b-c- - 3149 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #125 / 1121
Number of attempts: 6

Gray area - 712 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #20 / 264
Number of attempts: 4

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: 42
Position: #12 / 40
Number of attempts: 7

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #43 / 292
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1959 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #61 / 574
Number of attempts: 9

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10566 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #94 / 3647
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3403 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #106 / 686
Number of attempts: 6

Change The Perspective - 36 entries

This is a go game recodes file(.sgf file, refer to http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/). It base on such a coordinate system: in vertical direction, is from top(farthest end) to bottom, mark as a,b,c,...，s(19*19 board); in horizontal direction, is from left to right, uses the same notations. For Example, the coordinate notation 'cq', is the position at the bottom-left corner(vertical coordinate first). The record is from one player's perspective. We need to change to another's, but we don't want to change coordinate system, let it keep top to bottom and left to right. so we have to change the coordinates, a <-> s, b <-> r,c <-> q, etc. the Position 'cq', as transformation, it will be 'qd'.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #4 / 22
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12790 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #245 / 3932
Number of attempts: 6

Enumerate words - 241 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #29 / 86
Number of attempts: 3

Resort and deup a CSV list - 135 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: #2 / 37
Number of attempts: 4

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 53 entries

The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #7 / 34
Number of attempts: 2

[Real World] PHP To Markdown - 25 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: 160
Position: #4 / 7
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 492 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #34 / 187
Number of attempts: 5

Pascal's Triangle - 34 entries

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

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #2 / 15
Number of attempts: 6

Santa's naughty / nice list - 77 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: #2 / 23
Number of attempts: 2

If-then-else regexp - 37 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: #4 / 9
Number of attempts: 6

Chucking wood - 94 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: 53
Position: #7 / 42
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII-art Histogram - 300 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: 41
Position: #27 / 53
Number of attempts: 4

Array Transposition - 169 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 29
Position: #12 / 51
Number of attempts: 3

Alphabet soup - 402 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #22 / 98
Number of attempts: 4

calculations - 256 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #3 / 62
Number of attempts: 5

Vertical Limit - 2389 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #38 / 724
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 4997 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #376 / 1724
Number of attempts: 2

formatted text to markdown - 181 entries

You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.

Best score: 70
Best player score: 70
Position: #3 / 66
Number of attempts: 3

Increment, increment, increment.... - 617 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #310 / 390
Number of attempts: 1

Remove Accent off the Letter - 103 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 38
Position: #2 / 48
Number of attempts: 7

Reverse characters in a line - 696 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #15 / 246
Number of attempts: 4

Get rid of html tags - 356 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #7 / 213
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 11897 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #381 / 3482
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6251 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #138 / 1544
Number of attempts: 12

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Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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