Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32910 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: #1813 / 7271
- Number of attempts: 9
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #429 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5962 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #943 / 1464
- Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18385 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #935 / 3789
- Number of attempts: 13
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #514 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2751 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #471 / 815
- Number of attempts: 4
Add string initializers to an enum - 769 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #154 / 227
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10541 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #792 / 2989
- Number of attempts: 4
Bad Copy Syntax - 1938 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #392 / 493
- Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2098 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #576 / 622
- Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #608 / 1121
- Number of attempts: 7
Com(m)a Trouble - 3379 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #341 / 761
- Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7682 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #980 / 1836
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 27
- Position: #310 / 369
- Number of attempts: 5
html paragraph to table - 583 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #68 / 121
- Number of attempts: 2
From argument to object - 1262 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: #56 / 417
- Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2801 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #313 / 625
- Number of attempts: 6
That hyphen - 2498 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #461 / 683
- Number of attempts: 4
comment and uncomment code inline - 995 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: #67 / 296
- Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11140 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #858 / 4113
- Number of attempts: 9
Team names - 1777 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #16 / 570
- Number of attempts: 5
Todo list specification - 365 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: #129 / 168
- Number of attempts: 1
Text to HTML Table - 157 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #16 / 46
- Number of attempts: 3
Stairstep digits - 245 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #91 / 116
- Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 836 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: #55 / 205
- Number of attempts: 4
Simple addition - 293 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: #34 / 108
- Number of attempts: 4
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 156 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #32 / 74
- Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 916 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: 21
- Position: #146 / 257
- Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 795 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: #92 / 271
- Number of attempts: 5
Combines all items - 269 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #22 / 123
- Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7522 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1268 / 2044
- Number of attempts: 2
Free hyphen! - 149 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: #21 / 81
- Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 970 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #237 / 410
- Number of attempts: 1
Change attribute to getter - 111 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #25 / 48
- Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1040 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: 21
- Position: #216 / 236
- Number of attempts: 2
Hello ${world} - 293 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #75 / 92
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2095 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: #182 / 642
- 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: 13
- Position: #16 / 68
- Number of attempts: 5
Join 'em - 229 entries
This shouldn't be too tough
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #52 / 135
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 713 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #178 / 349
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4178 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #331 / 1166
- Number of attempts: 8
Sorting database text output - 206 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: 30
- Position: #72 / 79
- Number of attempts: 1
increment by column in XML - 144 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #38 / 52
- Number of attempts: 1
Happy TvvO - 388 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #140 / 194
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15740 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2164 / 4115
- Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #215 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 7
Count both ways - 959 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #117 / 341
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1951 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: 13
- Position: #259 / 572
- Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1181 / 3637
- Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #810 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 5
paste indent correction - JS - 92 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #48 / 53
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #524 / 716
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4917 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #485 / 1701
- Number of attempts: 5
Compile C - 319 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 119
- Position: #122 / 123
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11637 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #499 / 3413
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6015 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #1225 / 1482
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 20 entries
Convert from one format to another