Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32879 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: #1961 / 7266
- Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4420 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #486 / 1238
- Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18365 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #777 / 3785
- Number of attempts: 9
vim = 22 / 7 - 422 entries
pi square vim
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #47 / 129
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2423 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #56 / 558
- Number of attempts: 4
Unsemantic linewrapping - 826 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: 10
- Position: #115 / 208
- Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4635 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1396 / 1855
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2741 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #393 / 813
- Number of attempts: 5
Add string initializers to an enum - 759 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #70 / 224
- Number of attempts: 2
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1106 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: 20
- Position: #73 / 230
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap the operands under comparison - 253 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #36 / 91
- Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10527 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1071 / 2986
- Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 1926 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #224 / 490
- Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3450 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #656 / 1119
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3369 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #244 / 758
- Number of attempts: 4
Extract wireshark capture filter - 177 entries
Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #32 / 57
- Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7678 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #496 / 1834
- Number of attempts: 7
citizen_hacks_2019_part6 - 19 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 36
- Position: #5 / 8
- Number of attempts: 2
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 113 entries
In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #26 / 38
- Number of attempts: 4
Hash staircase - 39 entries
Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #19 / 19
- Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 761 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #106 / 216
- Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1441 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: 20
- Position: #171 / 368
- Number of attempts: 4
html paragraph to table - 583 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #72 / 121
- Number of attempts: 4
From argument to object - 1258 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #229 / 416
- Number of attempts: 3
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 710 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #80 / 166
- Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2815 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #245 / 683
- Number of attempts: 9
Copy three lines - 2785 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #336 / 623
- Number of attempts: 1
Convert Application Output to CSV - 178 entries
Change the application output to comma-separated values
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #40 / 49
- Number of attempts: 3
Array propagate - 309 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #40 / 109
- Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2211 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #366 / 727
- Number of attempts: 3
Start coding format - 128 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #29 / 63
- Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4637 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #619 / 1536
- Number of attempts: 4
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 476 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: 31
- Position: #27 / 116
- Number of attempts: 6
Number Sort - 283 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: 10
- Position: #140 / 151
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2482 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #260 / 679
- Number of attempts: 8
comment and uncomment code inline - 984 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: 10
- Position: #192 / 294
- Number of attempts: 6
Letterbox - 88 entries
Make a box!
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #6 / 24
- Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11119 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #2910 / 4108
- Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1773 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #301 / 569
- Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 987 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #26 / 261
- Number of attempts: 6
Todo list specification - 362 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: #74 / 166
- Number of attempts: 3
Subnetting - 102 entries
Split up the IP addresses in the right way.
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #16 / 33
- Number of attempts: 4
Text to HTML Table - 157 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #25 / 46
- Number of attempts: 5
For all cases. - 126 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #68 / 90
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 234 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #107 / 126
- Number of attempts: 1
Stairstep digits - 240 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #100 / 115
- Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 830 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: #91 / 204
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5422 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #274 / 1225
- Number of attempts: 11
Adam's challenge - 913 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: 19
- Position: #117 / 256
- Number of attempts: 5
Create a table - 302 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #81 / 98
- Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 794 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: #137 / 270
- Number of attempts: 2
Add to end of each line... kinda - 286 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: #93 / 154
- Number of attempts: 1
Combines all items - 266 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #73 / 122
- Number of attempts: 1
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 210 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: 16
- Position: #33 / 73
- Number of attempts: 3
Wrap text in quotes - 334 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #66 / 114
- Number of attempts: 4
ninja substitution - 1288 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #103 / 246
- Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 7508 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #785 / 2038
- Number of attempts: 4
Pretty multi-line bash - 213 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #31 / 73
- Number of attempts: 2
7th Birthday - 182 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: 20
- Position: #24 / 70
- Number of attempts: 8
Paragraph sort - 406 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #68 / 118
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort files from hosts - 142 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #24 / 64
- Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 870 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #120 / 239
- Number of attempts: 4
Paragraph breaks - 480 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #79 / 159
- Number of attempts: 4
Array of characters - 133 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: 36
- Position: #18 / 40
- Number of attempts: 4
lipsum lines - 247 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #24 / 89
- Number of attempts: 3
Angular naming conventions - 280 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: 21
- Position: #70 / 109
- Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 395 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #47 / 111
- Number of attempts: 4
Scrambled numbers - 772 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #48 / 179
- Number of attempts: 10
Align commas - 1025 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: 12
- Position: #95 / 234
- Number of attempts: 8
Hello ${world} - 293 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #43 / 92
- Number of attempts: 6
Generate a list of numbers - 274 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #56 / 129
- Number of attempts: 1
Python challenge - 140 entries
Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #16 / 41
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2091 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: #197 / 640
- Number of attempts: 3
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 598 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: #47 / 191
- Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 1911 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #123 / 470
- Number of attempts: 7
Build a six - 267 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #51 / 89
- Number of attempts: 6
Increment each number - 946 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #131 / 233
- Number of attempts: 3
Around the clock - 174 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: 14
- Position: #44 / 67
- Number of attempts: 2
snowflake fractal - 39 entries
From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #11 / 17
- Number of attempts: 2
Song Transcription Oops - 222 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: 22
- Position: #57 / 68
- Number of attempts: 1
change parenthesis - 251 entries
change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #59 / 140
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove quotes after first field - 319 entries
Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #33 / 79
- Number of attempts: 9
Put the months in order - 915 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #85 / 155
- Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1109 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #102 / 251
- Number of attempts: 7
Add Go XML to structure tags - 148 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: #22 / 64
- Number of attempts: 2
move titles next to url, in quotes - 487 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #18 / 128
- Number of attempts: 5
Array transposition - 2295 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #145 / 430
- Number of attempts: 10
convert yml into java pojo field - 807 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: 30
- Position: #118 / 214
- Number of attempts: 4
Mirror Symmetry - 753 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #113 / 258
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap assigned value - 551 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #93 / 234
- Number of attempts: 1
From A to B - 552 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #91 / 152
- Number of attempts: 3
Change your calendar - 278 entries
Happy New Year!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #18 / 76
- Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4172 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #595 / 1165
- Number of attempts: 6
camel riding - 742 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #142 / 266
- Number of attempts: 3
readability - 306 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #127 / 145
- Number of attempts: 2
Logging with key - 289 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #54 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1575 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #123 / 431
- Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 958 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #65 / 279
- Number of attempts: 4
Line 'em up! - 362 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: #47 / 104
- Number of attempts: 2
ASCII box - 315 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #51 / 101
- Number of attempts: 5
Mute the second method of this script - 437 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #136 / 232
- Number of attempts: 1
Sorting database text output - 204 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: 25
- Position: #48 / 78
- Number of attempts: 5
Condensed Cases - 744 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: 13
- Position: #92 / 228
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15710 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1181 / 4108
- Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3107 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #386 / 1109
- Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 947 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #82 / 338
- Number of attempts: 6
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 227 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #57 / 109
- Number of attempts: 2
Lisp Condense - 426 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #82 / 150
- Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 433 entries
Rotate that triangle.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #31 / 139
- Number of attempts: 10
Gray area - 684 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #117 / 255
- Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1091 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #282 / 289
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1943 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: 12
- Position: #223 / 570
- Number of attempts: 8
Two become one - 703 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #42 / 202
- Number of attempts: 6
Where should I put the Newline? - 837 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #390 / 420
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1122 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #90 / 241
- Number of attempts: 7
Shuffle puzzle - 303 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #45 / 99
- Number of attempts: 4
Going underground.... - 306 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #6 / 121
- Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10531 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #2376 / 3636
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3020 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: 15
- Position: #474 / 1043
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 336 entries
"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #55 / 101
- Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12721 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1732 / 3914
- Number of attempts: 3
Pairs of numbers - 343 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #33 / 128
- Number of attempts: 11
Hole-in-one - 965 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #259 / 296
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 351 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #176 / 211
- Number of attempts: 2
Minimalist Limerick - 503 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #43 / 167
- Number of attempts: 7
Prefixes and suffixes - 559 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #24 / 184
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 46
- Position: #12 / 37
- Number of attempts: 3
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 381 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #85 / 178
- Number of attempts: 2
lamb had a little Mary - 550 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #20 / 156
- Number of attempts: 8
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1495 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #232 / 421
- Number of attempts: 6
Stairs Indenting - 412 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #123 / 181
- Number of attempts: 1
ASCII-art Histogram - 285 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: 34
- Position: #13 / 51
- Number of attempts: 7
Array Transposition - 168 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #10 / 50
- Number of attempts: 9
Saving the hashes(#) - 1948 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #118 / 465
- Number of attempts: 12
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 997 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #306 / 415
- Number of attempts: 6
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 330 entries
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #33 / 107
- Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2363 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #167 / 714
- Number of attempts: 4
Exchanging Quotes - 791 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #37 / 218
- Number of attempts: 8
replacing each line of a block selection - 2777 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #208 / 731
- Number of attempts: 5
Switch function arguments - 1967 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #300 / 624
- Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 939 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #234 / 383
- Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and double space - 441 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #79 / 182
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 657 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #188 / 259
- Number of attempts: 2
Remove semicolons after expressions - 530 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 6
- Position: #105 / 231
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4901 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #947 / 1698
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1882 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #180 / 620
- Number of attempts: 4
Line Zipper - 430 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #58 / 203
- Number of attempts: 4
remove dupes from array - 1281 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #79 / 324
- Number of attempts: 3
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 456 entries
I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #43 / 141
- Number of attempts: 6
Case preserving word replacement - 434 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #61 / 174
- Number of attempts: 2
imports alignment (python) - 639 entries
Align as one import per line.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #51 / 190
- Number of attempts: 4
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 374 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #78 / 158
- Number of attempts: 2
HTML to Haml - 788 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #15 / 196
- Number of attempts: 7
Generate English Alphabets - 433 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #17 / 193
- Number of attempts: 8
Insert a Markdown link - 408 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #36 / 137
- Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1825 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #47 / 622
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1137 entries
Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #169 / 379
- Number of attempts: 1
Assignment Alignment - 764 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #50 / 209
- Number of attempts: 4
Shebangs for all - 1763 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: 12
- Position: #143 / 466
- Number of attempts: 4
Reverse and count - 407 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #7 / 155
- Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 compat - 587 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #61 / 224
- Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1189 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #254 / 484
- Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 422 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #141 / 218
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 959 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #117 / 324
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat some Python - 554 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #37 / 221
- Number of attempts: 3
Reformat a C golf submission - 520 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #21 / 192
- Number of attempts: 5
Reverse characters in a line - 634 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: 13
- Position: #73 / 234
- Number of attempts: 8
Reformat most common surnames - 580 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #20 / 185
- Number of attempts: 5
Change the content of a string - 1341 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #265 / 517
- Number of attempts: 3
Sort and add attributes - 1171 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #228 / 479
- Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1120 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #198 / 343
- Number of attempts: 2
Braces or Brackets? - 682 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #28 / 249
- Number of attempts: 8
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2928 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #117 / 657
- Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 11588 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1738 / 3401
- Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5979 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #843 / 1476
- Number of attempts: 5