Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32903 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: 31
- Position: #5490 / 7270
- Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #1135 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18377 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #3721 / 3787
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4639 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #1680 / 1856
- Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2748 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #625 / 815
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10539 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #2484 / 2988
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3376 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #685 / 760
- Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1447 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: 41
- Position: #353 / 369
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2829 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #621 / 686
- Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2794 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #561 / 625
- Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4651 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1159 / 1541
- Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 284 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: 12
- Position: #148 / 152
- Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 990 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: 27
- Position: #291 / 295
- Number of attempts: 2
Flip the bit - 108 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #62 / 64
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11136 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #3870 / 4112
- Number of attempts: 3
Make HTML List - 987 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 62
- Position: #249 / 261
- Number of attempts: 1
Un"finnish"ed Work - 105 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #47 / 55
- Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5428 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #899 / 1226
- Number of attempts: 1
Add to end of each line... kinda - 288 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: 15
- Position: #152 / 155
- Number of attempts: 3
Fun With The Diagonal - 97 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #58 / 74
- Number of attempts: 1
Free hyphen! - 147 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: #19 / 81
- Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 877 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #205 / 241
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 970 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #397 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 808 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: 41
- Position: #205 / 215
- Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #242 / 262
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4178 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1047 / 1166
- Number of attempts: 4
VimGolfNight - 495 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #321 / 327
- Number of attempts: 2
Not enough Ps - 65 entries
Different type of code
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #33 / 34
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15727 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #3825 / 4113
- Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 217 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #105 / 148
- Number of attempts: 2
vim1001 - 269 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #95 / 105
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #830 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 161 entries
Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #107 / 125
- Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 842 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #384 / 421
- Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #2789 / 3637
- Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1547 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #459 / 498
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3026 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #892 / 1044
- Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 260 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #170 / 204
- Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 559 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #137 / 157
- Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1508 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #364 / 424
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2367 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #526 / 716
- Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2791 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #628 / 732
- Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 942 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #382 / 385
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and double space - 445 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #180 / 183
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove semicolons after expressions - 541 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #225 / 235
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 521 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #280 / 336
- Number of attempts: 1
Replacing some words - 410 entries
How fast could it be?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #133 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1891 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #518 / 622
- Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 315 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #174 / 194
- Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1771 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #450 / 467
- Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 915 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #477 / 609
- Number of attempts: 1
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 284 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
- Best score: 107
- Best player score: 174
- Position: #120 / 132
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 758 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #412 / 429
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 567 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #320 / 370
- Number of attempts: 2
Indentation - 446 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #143 / 159
- Number of attempts: 1
Context insensitive completion 0 - 468 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #184 / 221
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11619 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #3123 / 3408
- Number of attempts: 1
Brent Woo
Twitter: @BrentPWoo
Linguistics PhD student at UW: idioms, coordination, experimental syntax, Slavic. he/him