Played Challenges
Rural Post - 4115 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #610 / 1017
- Number of attempts: 4
Satisfy the go linter - 2013 entries
You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #262 / 405
- Number of attempts: 2
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 795 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #217 / 250
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32953 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: 26
- Position: #3571 / 7275
- Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #1102 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5975 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #996 / 1467
- Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18395 entries
Just give me the numbers.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #2968 / 3793
- Number of attempts: 7
Swap values inside brackets - 2433 entries
Easy challenge.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #493 / 561
- Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4641 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1308 / 1857
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
- Position: #526 / 815
- Number of attempts: 5
Swap the operands under comparison - 258 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #71 / 93
- Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10545 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #2299 / 2989
- Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2098 entries
This line is too long, split it.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #610 / 622
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #830 / 1121
- Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3410 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #552 / 764
- Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7682 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #637 / 1836
- Number of attempts: 4
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: 37
- Position: #348 / 369
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 20
- Position: #307 / 417
- Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2829 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #633 / 686
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 21
- Position: #455 / 625
- Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2218 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #724 / 729
- Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1323 / 1549
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 45
- Position: #107 / 116
- Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2500 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #523 / 683
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
- Position: #268 / 296
- Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11141 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #3501 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1777 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #478 / 570
- 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: 57
- Position: #240 / 261
- Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 504 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: 37
- Position: #112 / 125
- Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5436 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #676 / 1228
- 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: 30
- Position: #248 / 257
- Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7535 entries
Little role switching.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #1706 / 2048
- Number of attempts: 3
Order and join - 881 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #207 / 242
- Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 970 entries
Basic comment reformatting
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #265 / 410
- Number of attempts: 4
Scrambled numbers - 772 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #165 / 179
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 26
- Position: #227 / 236
- Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 604 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: 22
- Position: #181 / 192
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2312 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #368 / 431
- Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 818 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: 36
- Position: #183 / 217
- Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4184 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #836 / 1167
- Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1595 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #357 / 434
- 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: 51
- Position: #275 / 279
- Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15745 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #3260 / 4116
- Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #987 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 962 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #338 / 342
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #360 / 572
- Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #3134 / 3638
- Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3402 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #434 / 685
- Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1553 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #435 / 500
- Number of attempts: 4
quotes inside quotes - 3030 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #897 / 1045
- Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #3268 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 3
Array Transposition - 168 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 68
- Position: #47 / 50
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2369 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #573 / 717
- Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2800 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #498 / 735
- Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 1982 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #485 / 627
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4937 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1498 / 1707
- Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 1897 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #396 / 624
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1831 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #550 / 626
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11657 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #2632 / 3418
- Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 59
- Position: #1386 / 1486
- Number of attempts: 2