VimGolf20356 active golfers, 206830 entries, 380 challenges
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Simple, Practical, and Common - 15682 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.
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 44 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
One number per line - 7081 entries
Just give me the numbers.
Team names - 389 entries
The team names are misspelled.
I forgot quotes - 7756 entries
Oops.
Just the middle - 7279 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
Lenny Spiral - 8 entries
Make one lenny into an infinite army of lennys.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 8156 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
Words in parens - 9239 entries
We should all ace this, right?
Vice versa - 4344 entries
Little role switching.
multiple cursor alternative - 522 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
Array transposition - 647 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
Swap values - 2443 entries
Well, swap the values...
Simple text editing with Vim - 9179 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
From argument to object - 709 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?
Array propagate - 66 entries
Complete the array with the keys as part of the value
Basic renumbering - 3403 entries
Renumbering Basic.
Collect List - 2648 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
Every other line - 1329 entries
AaAaAaA
Split line with dots - 1513 entries
This line is too long, split it.
V to the i - 3053 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
Missing Library and a Typo - 419 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
Copy three lines - 1219 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5195 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
Adam's challenge - 451 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 551 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
comment and uncomment code inline - 416 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.
switch variable - 3802 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
-a-b-c- - 2073 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
attr_aligner - 2584 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
quotes inside quotes - 2469 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 :)
That hyphen - 1660 entries
"vim vi improved"
Search and Replace 0 - 3567 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
Todo list specification - 235 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
Extract argument from function - 1656 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
Order and join - 502 entries
There's something special about the input order.
Don't know what this is - 1409 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 16 entries
sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files
replacing each line of a block selection - 2219 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
Space out the alphabet - 1083 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
Create a table - 173 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
comments galore - 745 entries
Basic comment reformatting
Hello ${world} - 163 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 120 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
C Reformatting - 489 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
Simple addition - 186 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
Align commas - 578 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.
Vertical Limit - 1825 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2283 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
Scrambled numbers - 582 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
Stairstep digits - 182 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
Saving the hashes(#) - 1503 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
Back to the roots - 27 entries
Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?
Letter case trickery - 1277 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.
Switch function arguments - 1636 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
Make HTML List - 714 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
Fix the XML - 761 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
Nesting SASS - 175 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
Make it more readable - 1602 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
Paragraph breaks - 346 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 897 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
From A to B - 440 entries
Mirror and change this text block
Mirror Symmetry - 634 entries
Add backslashes.
Count both ways - 807 entries
Right AND down.
Numbering a List - 1649 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
camel riding - 639 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
Add Go XML to structure tags - 117 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
42-header - 24 entries
Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school
Mess in revision history - 862 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1201 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
Combines all items - 217 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
Un"finnish"ed Work - 91 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
Alsa configuration - 425 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
Shebangs for all - 1511 entries
We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.
Separate the lines - 108 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
Where should I put the Newline? - 756 entries
Help me put the newline.
Text to HTML Table - 112 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
Hole-in-one - 914 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.
Condensed Cases - 622 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.
Paragraph sort - 277 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
remove dupes from array - 1130 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
Gray area - 574 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
Change the content of a string - 1172 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
Two become one - 620 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 832 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 165 entries
Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.
The Cake is a Lie - 1076 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
Wrap text in quotes - 228 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
Replace and keep the case - 306 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
Sort and add attributes - 1022 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
For all cases. - 77 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
Append semicolon after expressions - 800 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1000 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!
Generate a list of numbers - 200 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
Reconstruct the Sentence - 970 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
Mute the second method of this script - 381 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
Pretty multi-line bash - 179 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
Exchanging Quotes - 707 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
sort python functions and methods alphabetically - 9 entries
* sort functions in the python file alphabetically * sort functions within a Class alphabetically * sort Classes alphabetically
Make Fancy Header - 837 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
Angular naming conventions - 250 entries
In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!
A Simple One - 780 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
Flodder-challenge - 780 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
7th Birthday - 136 entries
We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 774 entries
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
Happy TvvO - 322 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
Sort files from hosts - 116 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
lipsum lines - 224 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 609 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
Lisp Condense - 347 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
Add to end of each line... kinda - 242 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?
create arrows in a list - 58 entries
Add arrow at same distance
The name of the game - 539 entries
End up with the name of the game.
TAR archive pretty print - 10 entries
Will you use isk ?
Line 'em up! - 256 entries
It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!
VimGolfNight - 430 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
mp3 - Cutlist - 12 entries
An audio CD was accidentally ripped into one single mp3 file. A dummy cue-file now needs to be filled out with the correct values to get single mp3 files.
Remove noise from HTTP log - 549 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
readability - 264 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
120 Degrees - 330 entries
Rotate that triangle.
ASCII box - 276 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
Reverse Simple Deletion - 662 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
HTML to Haml - 638 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
Swap assigned value - 459 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
Assignment Alignment - 635 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
Prefixes and suffixes - 448 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 19 entries
Convert from one format to another
Logging with key - 249 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
Braces or Brackets? - 614 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
Minimalist Limerick - 426 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
lamb had a little Mary - 430 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
Change attribute to getter - 81 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
The meaning - 473 entries
Numbers are fun!
imports alignment (python) - 563 entries
Align as one import per line.
Format java properties - 60 entries
Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".
Start coding format - 95 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
vim = 22 / 7 - 384 entries
pi square vim
Shuffle puzzle - 274 entries
Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.
Ruby 1.9 compat - 542 entries
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
Vim tetris - 295 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
A grid of punctuation - 108 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
Hidden Message - 37 entries
Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.
Mirrored text - 132 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
Split the words - 308 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
Remove semicolons after expressions - 407 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
underscore_to_camelCase - 130 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
Reverse characters in a line - 507 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
Remember FizzBuzz? - 505 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
Array of characters - 102 entries
We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.
Shuffled numbers - 191 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
Counting in binary - 312 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 136 entries
Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.
Reformat most common surnames - 491 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
Extract HTML option values from tag values - 65 entries
Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.
Reverse and double space - 394 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 141 entries
FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.
Pairs of numbers - 309 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
Reformat some Python - 482 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
Delete unwanted lines - 305 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
Interweave two blocks of text - 446 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?
Going underground.... - 272 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
NATO phonetic alphabet - 348 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
Stairs Indenting - 339 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
A simple change - 330 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
vim1001 - 212 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
Reformat a C golf submission - 450 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 450 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 393 entries
I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!
Replacing some words - 374 entries
How fast could it be?
Vim's not included features - 145 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 211 entries
Just testing.
Add fold markers to a .c file - 437 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
Sorting paragraphs - 433 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
Increment, increment, increment.... - 430 entries
Vim likes macros
Context insensitive completion 0 - 425 entries
Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.
Inner hyphens - 107 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
Sorting database text output - 170 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?
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 308 entries
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 307 entries
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
Line Zipper - 381 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
Restore order to the alphabet - 145 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
Free hyphen! - 102 entries
Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?
Case preserving word replacement - 378 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
Indentation - 395 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
Flatten repo - 22 entries
For each git repository (<project> tag) translate name attribute to flatten directory structure. Add path attribute if missing (because checkout hierarchy must be kept). #xml
Reverse and count - 375 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
Insert a Markdown link - 371 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
Generate English Alphabets - 369 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
learn vim in short time - 168 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 367 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 180 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
Hatsuyume - 355 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
Wget failed to download redirections - 150 entries
Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 342 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
Sorting a glossary - 89 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 231 entries
"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!
Shift down - 151 entries
Number words are back.
Refactor static member invocation - 153 entries
Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.
Suffix sort - 157 entries
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
remove all lines in first part - 124 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!
Sort entries based on date - 284 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
abcd > a b c d - 225 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
Table Reshuffle - 310 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
Interleave lines - 123 entries
This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!
Reformat long lines - 305 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
Readable Rubyhash - 221 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!
Create Leading Zeros - 183 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
Get rid of html tags - 303 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
Enumerate words - 216 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
increment by column in XML - 128 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
Number an outline - 194 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
Manual SQL - 92 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 40 entries
I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!
Subtraction - 145 entries
Solve the equations.
Pretty format for variable declarations - 125 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
The holy-grail may help - 278 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
Alphabetize the directory - 249 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
Change name of a variable - 135 entries
Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.
Word frequency alignment - 192 entries
You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...
Deleting folded text - 267 entries
The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.
Change your calendar - 188 entries
Happy New Year!
Compile C - 263 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
ASCII Art - 65 entries
how good are you with simple regex?
Fun With The Diagonal - 65 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
Top X - 163 entries
The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome
Prime Numbers - 253 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
Python to Ruby - 188 entries
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 117 entries
One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!
Fix the Haiku - 244 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
expand a list comprehension (python) - 240 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
Winning streak - 100 entries
Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.
Double and switch - 35 entries
Aaaanother case switcher
Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 183 entries
1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation
swap or reverse - 85 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 230 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 157 entries
col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?
Assign numbers to fields - 75 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
Assign list - 145 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
Refactor arguments into object argument - 155 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
Test everything! - 96 entries
... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.
Block Fun 1 - 158 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
Java Array2List - 210 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
Sort the cardinal numbers - 196 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
Dehamlizing - 155 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
Shuffle and Sort - 159 entries
The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be
Winding path - 91 entries
It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.
Round Round - 199 entries
Round Round
Recursively Palindrome - 193 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 196 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
Entries sort - 69 entries
It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 192 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 176 entries
Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 191 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 151 entries
Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.
Piphilology - 102 entries
Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology
Separating firstname & lastname - 79 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
constructor - 161 entries
coding a constructor for a simple class
Palindrome numbers - 10 entries
For each number compute its associated palindrome. First number (first line) has been eaten! #prime
Groups magic - 131 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
Complete the hex array data - 174 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
formatted text to markdown - 170 entries
You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.
REDRUM - 129 entries
If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.
Turn this csv list into queries - 180 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
Cartesian product - 178 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
Multiplication table. - 168 entries
Create a multiplication table.
Inconsistent real estate paste - 140 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 134 entries
Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.
Circle in a square - 119 entries
Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.
Refactoring useless Method away - 72 entries
Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement
Create a pandoc compatible table - 132 entries
In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/
Fill visual area - 66 entries
Just have fun!
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 128 entries
I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?
Draw the Go board - 108 entries
which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))
Unwrap the text of an email message - 119 entries
Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?
Define to require - 113 entries
When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.
Almost encrypted - 161 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
Rail fence transposition cipher - 63 entries
Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 86 entries
Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.
Sudoku table - 50 entries
Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.
O Christmas Tree - 88 entries
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 116 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.
Land of the Lost - 60 entries
Enter the tabs below the lyrics
Solve the Sokoban - 150 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 148 entries
According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max
Checkerboard case pattern - 106 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
Comparing scores - 68 entries
If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.
CSV to JSON - 141 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
Changing URL path in CSS - 111 entries
What's the quickest way to swap out all the URLs in a CSS file? Is it wasted keystrokes using look-behinds and look-aheads? (I'm sorry for the delete/report--I made a mistake with the last one requiring an ugly search for graphic to replace with images. I just intended this to be a simple search and replace that might possibly generate some macros or normals solutions that are quicker)
Extract text from xml - 101 entries
Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.
ascii-art diamond - 27 entries
Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.
Overall Vimgolf Rank - 136 entries
Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries
Implementing the methods of a Java Interface
Calculate the table totals - 105 entries
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
Printable ASCII characters - 95 entries
From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.
SQL to YAML - 32 entries
Should be easy with vim, or not?
Ninjas Leaderboard - 79 entries
The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.
Getters & Setters: Java - 129 entries
Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...
Happy New Year! - 126 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 125 entries
Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)
SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 93 entries
Move the pipes so they match the output.
Square numbers - 53 entries
Boring math puzzle.
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 116 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
Roman numerals - 57 entries
Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.
Letters are numbers - 121 entries
Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?
Lower cased and dashed strings - 39 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 ;)
Format the output - 95 entries
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
Word Blender - 118 entries
The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?
HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 59 entries
We did this a VimGolf challenge at work and now that we have finished I want to see if you guys can come up with something even better than we could. Our best solution was 44 keystrokes.
paste indent correction - JS - 75 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
It's a factor - 75 entries
Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.
Not enough Ps - 43 entries
Different type of code
Create bison tokens - 30 entries
Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words
Linear congruential generator - 103 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
Execute immediate SQL - 72 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
Tiny column alignment - 37 entries
Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!
Remove Accent off the Letter - 100 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
Greek column realign - 40 entries
Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*
Chucking wood - 68 entries
An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)
Lookahead and Lookbehind - 62 entries
Look everywhere
Complete the circuit grid! - 72 entries
Continuing from the last challenge, add additional rows to the grid. Change each of the names from 'A1'...'A10' to 'B1'...'B10', 'C1'...'C10', etc, and for each new row add 0.7 to the X values in the (X Y) at the end of each line.
SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 70 entries
A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.
Make the circuit grid! - 71 entries
Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.
Flip the chessboard - 66 entries
White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 83 entries
Same class but reverse!
Before there was Farmville... - 90 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
C to VimDict - 38 entries
Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.
Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 57 entries
Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.
Python: Lots of function arguments - 65 entries
The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.
Transposition - 64 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
Remove hard line breaks - 34 entries
Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.
Create an alphabet diamond - 67 entries
Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...
SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 66 entries
Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 60 entries
Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)
Sierpinski's Triangle - 62 entries
Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.
JSON string rotation - 35 entries
Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!
Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 61 entries
Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.
Add links to an existing HTML table - 59 entries
Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.
Dumb to smart - 80 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
Five Pillars - 43 entries
Arrange all words in a table with 5 columns. The minimal space between words in columns is 2 spaces. Columns do have varying width.
Binary and Increment - 32 entries
Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.
Here, piggy, piggy... - 75 entries
Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...
fib.c cleanup - 54 entries
cleanup the file
Carriage return - 40 entries
I have some raw data from terminal output which uses carriege return for formatting. Carriage return sets the pointer to the first character on the line, and subsequent characters will overwrite what was there before. The challange is to simulate the terminal behaviour in vim. I'm kind of unsure if I should have skipped lines 9 and 15, since there might be some interesting solutions which are not that generic. Happy Golfing!
Enharmonic Equivalents - 52 entries
Transform # and b to digraphs
Permutations N=4 - 39 entries
Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !
Recursive Cowsay - 41 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
Coordinates placeholder - 47 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.
Return the cow - 66 entries
This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.
Convert regular pandoc footnotes to in-line notes - 51 entries
Pandoc extends markdown by allowing footnotes, which are usually represented with a footnote identifier followed later in the document by the footnote itself. But Pandoc also allows inline footnotes without identifiers. How many strokes does it take to convert regular footnotes to inline notes? (NB: I've had trouble figuring out whether text-width makes a difference to Vimgolf in comparing the input and output file. I finally tested this locally using the Vimgolf vimrc and did a "gq" on the entire buffer as the last step. Apologies if I'm making a newbie mistake. First time submitter.)
Chinese Multiplication Table - 46 entries
Print a Chinese multiplication table in Vim. In China, every kid is asked to memorize this table. And thanks to the mono-syllabism of Chinese characters, it is not that hard. Printing the multiplication table is also a good exercise for programming beginners. For-loop, escaped characters, etc... There should be some special ways to print it in Vim.
Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 26 entries
For each line take 4th dirname of path. For example: "alsa-utils", "gawk-3.1.5", ... But! But if previous result is "files", take 3rd dirname instead. For example: "mktemp", "mklibs" ... If version is present in package name (dash is the separator character), take it. For example: "apt-0.9.9.4" prevails over "apt". And finally, use sort -u to get unique names!
Untangle my tail, please! - 39 entries
You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?
un-C-escape string - 52 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 45 entries
The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...
Presidential Sorting - 45 entries
Given a nice CSV formatted arrangement of the Presidents of the United States, we need to print out an alphabetical list in pretty columns. Prove that vim can conquer this basic Excel task!
Under the cupola - 37 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!)
Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 23 entries
Here you need complete 2 tasks: 1. Remove all unwanted continuous blank lines and leave only 1 blank line between paragraphs. 2. Properly capitalize the sentences.
range(10) digit rotation - 25 entries
This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..
50 factorials mod 97 - 24 entries
List 1! to 50!, but give your answer mod 97.
Maze path - 20 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.
maximun and minimun - 44 entries
Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.
XML to JSON - 41 entries
Convert this xml file into json.
Simple Maths - 25 entries
Not much to say, discover by yourself!
Config Sections - 25 entries
Section me!
Custom McCarthy sequence - 22 entries
Generate the first one hundred and twenty numbers (starting with n=1). See here for some inspiration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthy_91_function
Across-Down Flip - 37 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 18 entries
Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.
Extended Customer 2 - 39 entries
Format the chars
Sort by your own sum - 41 entries
Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.
Fibonacci Triangles - 38 entries
Triangles
Greek Letters - 39 entries
Starting with a list of Greek letters, create a cross-reference table showing all of the Greek alpha-beta. You'll likely need to use digraphs (:help digraphs). Note that while most digraphs can be entered with either character first, lowercase sigma has two digraphs -- s* AND *s! Good luck!
Convert pasted text into Markdown - 13 entries
I often need to copy/paste text into Markdown files. The challenge here is to wrap the lines in a way that prefers breaks after periods, commas, or other logical demarcations. There should be no spaces at the beginning of a line.
No naked if allowed! - 15 entries
House style forbids naked condition statements, comments should start with a space character and be on their own line. Good luck!
Refactor to Helpers - 45 entries
This Rails partial is almost all template escapes. Put it into a helper, and refactor each case to methods so we can build out the controls for each. (I've converted to tabs - fighting with Vimgolf's default config shouldn't be part of the challenge.)
LaTeX to XML Math Delimiters - 35 entries
Vim is amazing when used to edit MediaWiki text, but typing "<math> . . . </math>" can be tiresome and frustrating if formulas are used often. LaTeX delimiters are so concise and even come in two flavors: "\( . . . \)" for inline math and "\[ . . . \]" for centered formulas. The goal is to perform the following conversions: "\( . . . \)" becomes "<math>. . .</math>" "\[ . . . \]" becomes "<center><math>. . .</math></center>"
Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 21 entries
Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!
199 Fibonacci Numbers - 34 entries
Generate 199 Fibonacci Numbers using, if you like, the function S(x,y), a vimscript to sum two big numbers in reverse order.
Change The Perspective - 31 entries
This is a go game recodes file(.sgf file, refer to http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/). It base on such a coordinate system: in vertical direction, is from top(farthest end) to bottom, mark as a,b,c,...，s(19*19 board); in horizontal direction, is from left to right, uses the same notations. For Example, the coordinate notation 'cq', is the position at the bottom-left corner(vertical coordinate first). The record is from one player's perspective. We need to change to another's, but we don't want to change coordinate system, let it keep top to bottom and left to right. so we have to change the coordinates, a <-> s, b <-> r,c <-> q, etc. the Position 'cq', as transformation, it will be 'qd'.
Acute accents - 21 entries
Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.
Conway sequence - 17 entries
Generate the the first fifteen numbers. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence