Played Challenges
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33073 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: #117 / 7295
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4484 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #525 / 1245
- Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4647 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #236 / 1861
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2113 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #241 / 625
- Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1452 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: #143 / 371
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 18
- Position: #174 / 441
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2850 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #8 / 690
- Number of attempts: 9
Copy three lines - 2819 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #202 / 629
- Number of attempts: 3
Array propagate - 318 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #36 / 114
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4730 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #962 / 1565
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2520 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #73 / 688
- Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11284 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1858 / 4140
- Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 994 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #92 / 264
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 23
- Position: #64 / 129
- 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: 63
- Position: #37 / 46
- Number of attempts: 1
For all cases. - 131 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #34 / 94
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5484 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #374 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 14
- Position: #81 / 112
- Number of attempts: 1
Create Leading Zeros - 205 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #7 / 77
- Number of attempts: 7
Add to end of each line... kinda - 307 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: 13
- Position: #104 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #7 / 119
- Number of attempts: 1
Fun With The Diagonal - 99 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #8 / 76
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7614 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #1096 / 2063
- Number of attempts: 1
Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #37 / 75
- Number of attempts: 2
C Reformatting - 687 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #59 / 160
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 67
- Position: #8 / 18
- Number of attempts: 3
Vim's not included features - 183 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #11 / 59
- Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 913 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #143 / 248
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph breaks - 497 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #100 / 163
- Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 982 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #5 / 414
- Number of attempts: 2
lipsum lines - 247 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #31 / 89
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #24 / 77
- Number of attempts: 1
Sudoku table - 58 entries
Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #4 / 27
- Number of attempts: 11
Scrambled numbers - 775 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #75 / 181
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 19
- Position: #183 / 238
- Number of attempts: 3
A grid of punctuation - 120 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #36 / 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: 49
- Position: #1 / 44
- Number of attempts: 3
Maze path - 32 entries
Follow the given motions and mark your path with Xs. Attention: This maze is quite big (20x20), please set your terminal size to at least 82.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 64
- Position: #9 / 13
- Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 280 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #19 / 134
- Number of attempts: 1
Separating firstname & lastname - 117 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #16 / 54
- Number of attempts: 1
Restore order to the alphabet - 183 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #19 / 66
- Number of attempts: 5
Mirror Symmetry - 787 entries
Add backslashes.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #14 / 264
- Number of attempts: 3
From A to B - 562 entries
Mirror and change this text block
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #79 / 154
- Number of attempts: 2
Entries sort - 80 entries
It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #34 / 37
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4207 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #661 / 1174
- Number of attempts: 1
camel riding - 757 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #102 / 271
- Number of attempts: 3
swap or reverse - 105 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #29 / 63
- Number of attempts: 2
readability - 310 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #54 / 147
- Number of attempts: 2
Interleave lines - 143 entries
This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #24 / 56
- Number of attempts: 5
Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #31 / 436
- Number of attempts: 5
remove all lines in first part - 189 entries
From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #24 / 64
- Number of attempts: 3
Fill visual area - 77 entries
Just have fun!
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #17 / 34
- Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 962 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #125 / 280
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 17
- Position: #13 / 107
- Number of attempts: 5
Shuffled numbers - 224 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #22 / 90
- Number of attempts: 2
ASCII box - 324 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #28 / 103
- Number of attempts: 4
Condensed Cases - 772 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: 15
- Position: #158 / 237
- Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15822 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #202 / 4129
- Number of attempts: 4
Shift down - 191 entries
Number words are back.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #38 / 66
- Number of attempts: 2
vim1001 - 274 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #33 / 106
- Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3135 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #231 / 1118
- Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 982 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #228 / 346
- Number of attempts: 2
Suffix sort - 244 entries
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #32 / 64
- Number of attempts: 5
Lisp Condense - 432 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #95 / 152
- Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 712 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #172 / 264
- Number of attempts: 2
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 223 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #25 / 98
- Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #143 / 292
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 12
- Position: #182 / 574
- Number of attempts: 6
Where should I put the Newline? - 849 entries
Help me put the newline.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #355 / 425
- Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1151 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #136 / 244
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10562 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #744 / 3646
- Number of attempts: 3
Under the cupola - 45 entries
Taking some liberty about the name and plot of the Stephen King's famous novel (and TV series) to make this challenge. Are you able to recreate graphically the key phrase of the story? (I think is gonna be hard!)
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #13 / 17
- Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3077 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: #606 / 1057
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12786 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #556 / 3928
- Number of attempts: 2
Pairs of numbers - 347 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: 30
- Position: #43 / 131
- Number of attempts: 3
Hole-in-one - 985 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: 16
- Position: #82 / 300
- Number of attempts: 2
abcd > a b c d - 270 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #153 / 211
- Number of attempts: 1
Readable Rubyhash - 242 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: 23
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #40 / 90
- Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 131 entries
Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #20 / 49
- Number of attempts: 3
maximun and minimun - 52 entries
Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.
- Best score: 51
- Best player score: 52
- Position: #8 / 22
- Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1044 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #84 / 427
- Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 1996 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #278 / 632
- Number of attempts: 1
Append semicolon after expressions - 975 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #87 / 394
- Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4978 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #1162 / 1716
- Number of attempts: 1
The meaning - 526 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #253 / 340
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 603 entries
Vim likes macros
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #295 / 383
- Number of attempts: 1
Indentation - 458 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #28 / 162
- Number of attempts: 4
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 438 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #121 / 225
- Number of attempts: 1
Contributed Challenges
Assign numbers to fields - 94 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.