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Played Challenges

Levenshtein distance - 105 entries

Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript

Best score: 27
Best player score: 35
Position: #20 / 37
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #173 / 524
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33617 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: #13 / 7421
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #369 / 1268
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1574 / 3864
Number of attempts: 3

Wget failed to download redirections - 202 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.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #31 / 65
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4802 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #919 / 1893
Number of attempts: 4

html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 52
Position: #36 / 126
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #309 / 753
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 155 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #35 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #365 / 1624
Number of attempts: 7

Across-Down Flip - 68 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #14 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #401 / 701
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 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: 9
Position: #55 / 322
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #179 / 4197
Number of attempts: 4

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #53 / 273
Number of attempts: 4

Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #5 / 60
Number of attempts: 3

Todo list specification - 399 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #36 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 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.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 43
Position: #176 / 380
Number of attempts: 3

Extended Customer 2 - 49 entries

Format the chars

Best score: 47
Best player score: 72
Position: #12 / 21
Number of attempts: 3

Flatten repo - 29 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

Best score: 43
Best player score: 50
Position: #5 / 11
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #338 / 1264
Number of attempts: 4

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #14 / 79
Number of attempts: 2

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #38 / 82
Number of attempts: 8

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 36
Position: #22 / 63
Number of attempts: 3

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 181 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.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 28
Position: #20 / 53
Number of attempts: 4

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 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: #118 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

JSON string rotation - 64 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #14 / 22
Number of attempts: 5

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #166 / 267
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #856 / 2128
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #32 / 77
Number of attempts: 3

Free hyphen! - 169 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #89 / 89
Number of attempts: 2

C Reformatting - 690 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #57 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 31
Position: #39 / 65
Number of attempts: 8

comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #87 / 424
Number of attempts: 2

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #75 / 82
Number of attempts: 2

ascii-art diamond - 44 entries

Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 54
Position: #14 / 17
Number of attempts: 3

Maze path - 48 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: 40
Position: #10 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat Cura settings - 132 entries

Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json

Best score: 50
Best player score: 64
Position: #16 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Build a six - 294 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #44 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 37 entries

Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!

Best score: 51
Best player score: 64
Position: #11 / 15
Number of attempts: 3

Greek Letters - 64 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!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 60
Position: #9 / 25
Number of attempts: 9

Separating firstname & lastname - 138 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #15 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #23 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #13 / 269
Number of attempts: 3

Binary and Increment - 56 entries

Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 41
Position: #16 / 20
Number of attempts: 7

Entries sort - 90 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: 14
Position: #7 / 40
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #10 / 1190
Number of attempts: 5

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #209 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

Rail fence transposition cipher - 84 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.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #17 / 26
Number of attempts: 7

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #78 / 281
Number of attempts: 5

Land of the Lost - 81 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

Best score: 25
Best player score: 31
Position: #4 / 32
Number of attempts: 6

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #68 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #95 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Interleave lines - 185 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: 25
Position: #21 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #38 / 88
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #152 / 444
Number of attempts: 6

Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 45 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!

Best score: 32
Best player score: 35
Position: #6 / 15
Number of attempts: 3

remove all lines in first part - 211 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: #17 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Not enough Ps - 67 entries

Different type of code

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #5 / 36
Number of attempts: 3

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 82 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.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #8 / 24
Number of attempts: 4

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #71 / 290
Number of attempts: 6

Line 'em up! - 421 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: #11 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffled numbers - 246 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: 16
Position: #44 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #58 / 107
Number of attempts: 4

50 factorials mod 97 - 58 entries

List 1! to 50!, but give your answer mod 97.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #12 / 20
Number of attempts: 4

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #10 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Remove hard line breaks - 74 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #13 / 34
Number of attempts: 5

Greek column realign - 51 entries

Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #15 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

Winning streak - 135 entries

Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #10 / 51
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 223 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?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #58 / 83
Number of attempts: 4

Config Sections - 53 entries

Section me!

Best score: 43
Best player score: 55
Position: #15 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Refactoring useless Method away - 116 entries

Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement

Best score: 47
Best player score: 50
Position: #10 / 34
Number of attempts: 4

Test everything! - 186 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #14 / 54
Number of attempts: 4

Condensed Cases - 804 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: 14
Position: #134 / 247
Number of attempts: 7

increment by column in XML - 152 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #26 / 55
Number of attempts: 4

Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #11 / 42
Number of attempts: 3

Pretty format for variable declarations - 170 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #31 / 64
Number of attempts: 6

Simple Maths - 57 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 35
Position: #16 / 27
Number of attempts: 3

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #3 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

C to VimDict - 53 entries

Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 46
Position: #13 / 15
Number of attempts: 2

range(10) digit rotation - 38 entries

This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #22 / 22
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1243 / 4180
Number of attempts: 6

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #39 / 69
Number of attempts: 10

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #136 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 76 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

Best score: 33
Best player score: 43
Position: #17 / 27
Number of attempts: 3

vim1001 - 307 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #81 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #27 / 62
Number of attempts: 6

Roman numerals - 81 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #14 / 29
Number of attempts: 6

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #494 / 1137
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #180 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Suffix sort - 270 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #26 / 67
Number of attempts: 12

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #41 / 116
Number of attempts: 3

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #81 / 158
Number of attempts: 5

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #76 / 145
Number of attempts: 5

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #9 / 271
Number of attempts: 7

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 139 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!

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #28 / 58
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #34 / 64
Number of attempts: 5

Winding path - 122 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 39
Position: #10 / 42
Number of attempts: 4

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #84 / 103
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #160 / 300
Number of attempts: 8

Don't know what this is - 2022 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: #325 / 585
Number of attempts: 6

Two become one - 713 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #29 / 208
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #327 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #29 / 102
Number of attempts: 4

Piphilology - 144 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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #13 / 52
Number of attempts: 5

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #86 / 250
Number of attempts: 8

Shuffle puzzle - 346 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.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #63 / 104
Number of attempts: 5

Going underground.... - 356 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #20 / 128
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1947 / 3683
Number of attempts: 8

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 30
Position: #372 / 702
Number of attempts: 6

Under the cupola - 57 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: 72
Position: #16 / 19
Number of attempts: 4

Ninjas Leaderboard - 99 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.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #8 / 41
Number of attempts: 5

Letter case trickery - 1630 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: 11
Position: #261 / 518
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: 15
Position: #443 / 1078
Number of attempts: 6

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1403 / 3963
Number of attempts: 2

Hole-in-one - 1018 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: 18
Position: #143 / 304
Number of attempts: 8

Coordinates placeholder - 73 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 51
Position: #37 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #42 / 55
Number of attempts: 2

199 Fibonacci Numbers - 41 entries

Generate 199 Fibonacci Numbers using, if you like, the function S(x,y), a vimscript to sum two big numbers in reverse order.

Best score: 51
Best player score: 67
Position: #12 / 18
Number of attempts: 7

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 95 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.)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #21 / 43
Number of attempts: 3

Transposition - 99 entries

Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 37
Position: #11 / 32
Number of attempts: 3

Sort by your own sum - 86 entries

Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #14 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

Changing URL path in CSS - 138 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)

Best score: 40
Best player score: 45
Position: #37 / 62
Number of attempts: 5

Rule 110 - 46 entries

Compute the next 5 iterations of Rule 110 with the given starting state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

Best score: 43
Best player score: 53
Position: #8 / 13
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #95 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

Presidential Sorting - 51 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!

Best score: 40
Best player score: 50
Position: #16 / 26
Number of attempts: 3

Extract text from xml - 127 entries

Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #14 / 46
Number of attempts: 3

Simple Maths 2 - 44 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #11 / 16
Number of attempts: 1

Tiny column alignment - 61 entries

Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #9 / 23
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 420 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."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #75 / 192
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #215 / 446
Number of attempts: 2

maximun and minimun - 73 entries

Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.

Best score: 50
Best player score: 69
Position: #19 / 26
Number of attempts: 3

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 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.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #178 / 480
Number of attempts: 9

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 101 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.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #49 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #271 / 445
Number of attempts: 7

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 28
Position: #51 / 113
Number of attempts: 3

Enharmonic Equivalents - 59 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #9 / 37
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the chessboard - 95 entries

White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #18 / 32
Number of attempts: 4

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #292 / 754
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #266 / 777
Number of attempts: 6

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #401 / 663
Number of attempts: 9

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 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: 16
Position: #180 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

un-C-escape string - 58 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #41 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #841 / 1748
Number of attempts: 6

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #104 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #285 / 650
Number of attempts: 3

Complete the hex array data - 197 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #45 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 280 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #84 / 100
Number of attempts: 5

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #262 / 652
Number of attempts: 5

Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 29
Position: #15 / 74
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 1999 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.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #202 / 516
Number of attempts: 6

Table Reshuffle - 429 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #38 / 139
Number of attempts: 2

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #54 / 90
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 compat - 629 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!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #53 / 234
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #304 / 458
Number of attempts: 6

Increment, increment, increment.... - 688 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #308 / 408
Number of attempts: 1

Dumb to smart - 99 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #18 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #365 / 527
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the Haiku - 308 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #27 / 113
Number of attempts: 4

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #74 / 141
Number of attempts: 6

Linear congruential generator - 142 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

Best score: 28
Best player score: 31
Position: #34 / 53
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 771 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #159 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 717 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #88 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 725 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 58
Position: #95 / 190
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3665 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #235 / 787
Number of attempts: 7

Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1357 / 3694
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #308 / 1706
Number of attempts: 5

Contributed Challenges

Tiny column alignment - 61 entries

Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!

Simple Maths 2 - 44 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

If-then-else regexp - 53 entries

Rules: - golf is never following golf - vim comes first! Drawing a finite-state machine diagram could help. #regexp

range(10) digit rotation - 38 entries

This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..

Simple Maths - 57 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Greek column realign - 51 entries

Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*

Conway sequence - 26 entries

Generate the the first fifteen numbers. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence

Custom McCarthy sequence - 44 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

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Fill visual area - 91 entries

Just have fun!

Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 45 entries

Interleave lines - 185 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Entries sort - 90 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 37 entries

Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!

Reformat Cura settings - 132 entries

Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json

Maze path - 48 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.

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

C Reformatting - 690 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

JSON string rotation - 64 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

Flatten repo - 29 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

Palindrome numbers - 29 entries

For each number compute its associated palindrome. First number (first line) has been eaten! #prime

TAR archive pretty print - 31 entries

Will you use isk ?

Data reformat - 294 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Levenshtein distance - 105 entries

Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript

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Played Challenges

Levenshtein distance - 105 entries

Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33617 entries

Swap values - 4616 entries

One number per line - 18727 entries

Wget failed to download redirections - 202 entries

V to the i - 4802 entries

html paragraph to table - 606 entries

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

Start coding format - 155 entries

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

Across-Down Flip - 68 entries

That hyphen - 2595 entries

comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 entries

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries

Todo list specification - 399 entries

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 entries

Extended Customer 2 - 49 entries

Flatten repo - 29 entries

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 entries

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 181 entries

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

JSON string rotation - 64 entries

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

Free hyphen! - 169 entries

C Reformatting - 690 entries

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

comments galore - 1045 entries

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

ascii-art diamond - 44 entries

Maze path - 48 entries

Reformat Cura settings - 132 entries

Build a six - 294 entries

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 37 entries

Greek Letters - 64 entries

Separating firstname & lastname - 138 entries

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Binary and Increment - 56 entries

Entries sort - 90 entries

Collect List - 4298 entries

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Rail fence transposition cipher - 84 entries

camel riding - 793 entries

Land of the Lost - 81 entries

swap or reverse - 126 entries

readability - 327 entries

Interleave lines - 185 entries

Logging with key - 328 entries

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 45 entries

remove all lines in first part - 211 entries

Not enough Ps - 67 entries

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 82 entries

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

Line 'em up! - 421 entries

Shuffled numbers - 246 entries

ASCII box - 347 entries

50 factorials mod 97 - 58 entries

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

Remove hard line breaks - 74 entries

Greek column realign - 51 entries

Winning streak - 135 entries

Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Config Sections - 53 entries

Refactoring useless Method away - 116 entries

Test everything! - 186 entries

Condensed Cases - 804 entries

increment by column in XML - 152 entries

Square numbers - 123 entries