Played Challenges
Poorly indented Python comments - 455 entries
Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #53 / 82
- Number of attempts: 2
Many duplicates - 285 entries
Quick and easy
- Best score: 2
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #20 / 104
- Number of attempts: 1
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 183 entries
The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 54
- Position: #33 / 51
- Number of attempts: 1
delete swap - 345 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #3 / 122
- Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 984 entries
Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #181 / 252
- Number of attempts: 1
Visual block training - 439 entries
You see the input. You see the output. Go.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #40 / 91
- Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 940 entries
Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #313 / 331
- Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 1522 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #248 / 435
- Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 613 entries
Speak in tongues
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #102 / 185
- Number of attempts: 4
Inverting Lines - 1296 entries
A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #210 / 363
- Number of attempts: 4
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 161 entries
Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Position: #89 / 105
- Number of attempts: 1
Put a cross in the square - 121 entries
Put a cross in the square
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #42 / 54
- Number of attempts: 5
HS Final exam vimgolf - 666 entries
Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #93 / 176
- Number of attempts: 2
Turn the x - 253 entries
Turn the x to a +
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #58 / 66
- Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4105 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #601 / 1015
- Number of attempts: 2
Satisfy the go linter - 2007 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: 28
- Position: #296 / 404
- Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 781 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #204 / 246
- Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1048 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #366 / 481
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4440 entries
Well, swap the values...
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #768 / 1241
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5959 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #422 / 1463
- Number of attempts: 7
Quote modules - 1015 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #122 / 258
- Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4639 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #1468 / 1856
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2748 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #516 / 815
- Number of attempts: 2
Add string initializers to an enum - 765 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #209 / 226
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap the operands under comparison - 254 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #53 / 92
- Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #1049 / 1121
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3376 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #399 / 760
- Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2829 entries
AaAaAaA
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #513 / 686
- Number of attempts: 1
Array propagate - 311 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #58 / 110
- Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2498 entries
"vim vi improved"
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #369 / 683
- Number of attempts: 6
Interweave two blocks of text - 574 entries
Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #198 / 204
- Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5430 entries
Renumbering Basic.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #259 / 1227
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #155 / 257
- Number of attempts: 3
Create a table - 302 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #53 / 98
- Number of attempts: 7
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: #152 / 271
- Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph sort - 414 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #73 / 120
- Number of attempts: 5
Order and join - 877 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #130 / 241
- Number of attempts: 6
One to Ten - 2093 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: #485 / 641
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 15
- Position: #116 / 191
- Number of attempts: 3
Separating firstname & lastname - 112 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #21 / 52
- Number of attempts: 3
convert yml into java pojo field - 808 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: #123 / 215
- Number of attempts: 1
Swap assigned value - 556 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #214 / 235
- Number of attempts: 1
Change your calendar - 279 entries
Happy New Year!
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #35 / 77
- Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4178 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #654 / 1166
- Number of attempts: 2
VimGolfNight - 495 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #278 / 327
- Number of attempts: 1
Logging with key - 292 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #65 / 84
- Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1590 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #132 / 433
- Number of attempts: 9
ASCII box - 317 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #77 / 102
- Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 752 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: 20
- Position: #209 / 230
- Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15728 entries
Oops.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #2341 / 4114
- Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3118 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #855 / 1112
- Number of attempts: 3
Count both ways - 957 entries
Right AND down.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #126 / 340
- Number of attempts: 3
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 233 entries
Just testing.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #60 / 112
- Number of attempts: 3
Gray area - 698 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #123 / 259
- Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1105 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #214 / 291
- Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1948 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: #369 / 571
- Number of attempts: 2
Vim tetris - 351 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #76 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3026 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: #641 / 1044
- Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12736 entries
We should all ace this, right?
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1155 / 3919
- Number of attempts: 3
Pairs of numbers - 345 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: 32
- Position: #48 / 129
- Number of attempts: 2
Delete unwanted lines - 358 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #182 / 215
- Number of attempts: 1
Block Fun 1 - 179 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #20 / 69
- Number of attempts: 5
Prefixes and suffixes - 567 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #149 / 185
- Number of attempts: 1
Dehamlizing - 174 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #43 / 67
- Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 476 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #103 / 181
- Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 627 entries
End up with the name of the game.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #266 / 343
- Number of attempts: 2
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1508 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #299 / 424
- Number of attempts: 1
Stairs Indenting - 424 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #131 / 183
- Number of attempts: 4
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1004 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #129 / 417
- Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2367 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #479 / 716
- Number of attempts: 3
Append semicolon after expressions - 942 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #333 / 385
- Number of attempts: 1
Remove noise from HTTP log - 660 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: 19
- Position: #235 / 260
- Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 4917 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #651 / 1701
- Number of attempts: 2
The meaning - 521 entries
Numbers are fun!
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #301 / 336
- Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 274 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #128 / 140
- Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1828 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #70 / 625
- Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1157 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: 12
- Position: #104 / 382
- Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 758 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #352 / 429
- Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 315 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #67 / 122
- Number of attempts: 4
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 427 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #150 / 222
- Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 963 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #204 / 326
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat most common surnames - 586 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #115 / 186
- Number of attempts: 1
Change the content of a string - 1346 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #275 / 520
- Number of attempts: 4
Sort and add attributes - 1189 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #395 / 483
- Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11624 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1863 / 3410
- Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6004 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 42
- Position: #915 / 1480
- Number of attempts: 1