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Played Challenges

Poorly indented Python comments - 667 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #39 / 127
  • Number of attempts: 7
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 319 entries

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

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #32 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 3
delete swap - 606 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #45 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 723 entries

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

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #67 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the shell script! - 1238 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #109 / 309
  • Number of attempts: 7
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1084 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #210 / 374
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wikitext headings to markdown - 671 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #40 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 12
hello-world-vimgolf - 1666 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #323 / 478
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fill in the chess board - 629 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #46 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 5
Inverting Lines - 1399 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #281 / 383
  • Number of attempts: 1
Data reformat - 241 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

  • Best score: 38
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #30 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 2
xrandr outputs and dashes - 607 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: #54 / 195
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1059 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #384 / 485
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1046 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: 28
  • Position: #118 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32992 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: 23
  • Position: #2635 / 7283
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4485 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #618 / 1246
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6030 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #569 / 1477
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18435 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #953 / 3801
  • Number of attempts: 10
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 176 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #73 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2437 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #329 / 562
  • Number of attempts: 4
Unsemantic linewrapping - 838 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: 11
  • Position: #143 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4645 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1375 / 1859
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2763 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #498 / 818
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add string initializers to an enum - 782 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #111 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap the operands under comparison - 259 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #62 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10709 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1484 / 3014
  • Number of attempts: 7
Bad Copy Syntax - 1947 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #265 / 494
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2114 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #462 / 625
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3475 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #867 / 1125
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3438 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #613 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract wireshark capture filter - 188 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #24 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7696 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #489 / 1838
  • Number of attempts: 3
Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 116 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: #24 / 39
  • Number of attempts: 2
Triangular Numbers - 88 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #21 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 3
Cool or not? - 761 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #125 / 216
  • Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1448 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: 22
  • Position: #225 / 370
  • Number of attempts: 3
html paragraph to table - 583 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #83 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1433 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: 19
  • Position: #288 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 4
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 711 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #99 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 4
Array propagate - 312 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #74 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2257 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #646 / 733
  • Number of attempts: 1
Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 57 entries

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

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #10 / 16
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4695 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #998 / 1556
  • Number of attempts: 2
Number Sort - 291 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: #143 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2512 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #529 / 685
  • Number of attempts: 4
comment and uncomment code inline - 1014 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: #191 / 298
  • Number of attempts: 4
Letterbox - 88 entries

Make a box!

  • Best score: 35
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #19 / 24
  • Number of attempts: 1
Flip the bit - 111 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #58 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11263 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2876 / 4135
  • Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 519 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: 22
  • Position: #60 / 127
  • Number of attempts: 5
Todo list specification - 368 entries

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

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #143 / 169
  • Number of attempts: 1
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 907 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

  • Best score: 39
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #33 / 353
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 239 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #106 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 1
Stairstep digits - 357 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #105 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 19
  • Position: #138 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 8
Basic renumbering - 5449 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #683 / 1231
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple addition - 297 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #100 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 917 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: 22
  • Position: #185 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 3
Create a table - 306 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #52 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 801 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #175 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 2
Nesting SASS - 255 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #61 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 2
Combines all items - 280 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #118 / 127
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 345 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #67 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1302 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #152 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7587 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #788 / 2056
  • Number of attempts: 4
C Reformatting - 686 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #80 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
Paragraph sort - 418 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #69 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph breaks - 492 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #147 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replace and keep the case - 395 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #62 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 5
Scrambled numbers - 774 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #117 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alsa configuration - 487 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #69 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 5
Hello ${world} - 293 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #42 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 6
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 76 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #13 / 53
  • 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: 51
  • Position: #23 / 41
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2113 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #455 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 3
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 121 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #49 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat Cura settings - 108 entries

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

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 75
  • Position: #15 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 1926 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #261 / 474
  • Number of attempts: 1
Build a six - 267 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #68 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 951 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #129 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 3
Around the clock - 177 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #54 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 715 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #297 / 350
  • Number of attempts: 1
change parenthesis - 255 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #107 / 143
  • Number of attempts: 1
Label grid cells (6x6) - 31 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: 56
  • Position: #12 / 14
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove quotes after first field - 322 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #49 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 50
  • Position: #121 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reorder the groups - 1115 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #234 / 253
  • Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 492 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #84 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2312 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #247 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mirror Symmetry - 785 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #163 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #92 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple format (2) - 312 entries

try again!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #37 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4191 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #652 / 1170
  • Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 747 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #186 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1600 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #198 / 435
  • 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: 25
  • Position: #169 / 279
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 441 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #215 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 1
Condensed Cases - 762 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: 18
  • Position: #199 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15769 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2273 / 4119
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3125 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #695 / 1114
  • Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 966 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #264 / 343
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 710 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #178 / 262
  • 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: 14
  • Position: #366 / 574
  • Number of attempts: 3
Where should I put the Newline? - 847 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #391 / 423
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1151 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #178 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3402 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #267 / 685
  • Number of attempts: 7
quotes inside quotes - 3051 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: 16
  • Position: #636 / 1050
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12769 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2458 / 3925
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 58
  • Position: #21 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rule 110 - 35 entries

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

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #5 / 11
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #4 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 46
  • Position: #8 / 9
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1522 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #283 / 428
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array Transposition - 168 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #31 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1022 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #308 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 3
Alphabet soup - 392 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #65 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2383 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #472 / 721
  • Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 800 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #133 / 220
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 2847 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #615 / 742
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 666 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #129 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 905 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #83 / 176
  • Number of attempts: 6
Make it more readable - 1915 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #302 / 628
  • Number of attempts: 1
HTML to Haml - 837 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #123 / 200
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1834 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #43 / 629
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1177 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: #171 / 387
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 1787 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: 18
  • Position: #362 / 470
  • Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 957 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: #503 / 624
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1234 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 3
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #438 / 497
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make Fancy Header - 983 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #201 / 331
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change the content of a string - 1364 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #334 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1217 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #224 / 492
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1168 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: #203 / 350
  • Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3041 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #413 / 672
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 11708 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1720 / 3431
  • Number of attempts: 2

Contributed Challenges

ASCII-art Histogram - 295 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 ;-)

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