Played Challenges
Visual block training - 321 entries
You see the input. You see the output. Go.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #6 / 73
- Number of attempts: 17
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 830 entries
Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #98 / 295
- Number of attempts: 4
hello-world-vimgolf - 1394 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #13 / 399
- Number of attempts: 3
simple replacements - 1006 entries
The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #32 / 227
- Number of attempts: 10
Inverting Lines - 1265 entries
A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #175 / 351
- Number of attempts: 5
Python dataclasses - 629 entries
Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #36 / 164
- Number of attempts: 8
RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 212 entries
RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #36 / 64
- Number of attempts: 6
Modernise code - 805 entries
Modernise and clean up some C++ code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #48 / 186
- Number of attempts: 7
swap number pairs - 1409 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #36 / 276
- Number of attempts: 15
Rural Post - 4072 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #168 / 1008
- Number of attempts: 5
Satisfy the go linter - 1996 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: 20
- Position: #110 / 400
- Number of attempts: 7
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 775 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #50 / 245
- Number of attempts: 5
xrandr outputs and dashes - 587 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: #121 / 191
- Number of attempts: 4
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 694 entries
ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #50 / 154
- Number of attempts: 8
Yo To Hello - 1042 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #404 / 477
- Number of attempts: 2
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1025 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: 21
- Position: #39 / 207
- Number of attempts: 16
Get mail address from outlook format - 586 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #70 / 180
- Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5946 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #411 / 1459
- Number of attempts: 8
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2741 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 12
- Position: #9 / 813
- Number of attempts: 3
Add string initializers to an enum - 759 entries
Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #63 / 224
- Number of attempts: 7
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1106 entries
Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #106 / 230
- Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10527 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #2107 / 2986
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 1926 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #202 / 490
- Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3450 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #481 / 1119
- Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7678 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #440 / 1834
- Number of attempts: 6
multiple cursor alternative - 1441 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: 19
- Position: #92 / 368
- Number of attempts: 7
Array propagate - 309 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #41 / 109
- Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4640 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1010 / 1537
- Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1288 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #77 / 246
- Number of attempts: 10
One to Ten - 2091 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: #340 / 640
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
- Position: #63 / 191
- Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 1911 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #398 / 470
- Number of attempts: 1
Around the clock - 174 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: #34 / 67
- Number of attempts: 5
Join 'em - 228 entries
This shouldn't be too tough
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #118 / 134
- Number of attempts: 1
Reorder the groups - 1109 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #87 / 251
- Number of attempts: 7
move titles next to url, in quotes - 487 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #25 / 128
- Number of attempts: 4
Array transposition - 2295 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #41 / 430
- Number of attempts: 13
Reformat most common surnames - 580 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #25 / 185
- Number of attempts: 5
Get rid of html tags - 337 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #12 / 205
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort and add attributes - 1171 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 33
- Position: #240 / 479
- Number of attempts: 4
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1120 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: #207 / 343
- Number of attempts: 5
Braces or Brackets? - 682 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #24 / 249
- Number of attempts: 11
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2928 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #126 / 657
- Number of attempts: 9
Simple text editing with Vim - 11589 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #1854 / 3402
- Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5974 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
- Best score: 32
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #535 / 1475
- Number of attempts: 4