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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33609 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: #133 / 7415
Number of attempts: 5

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: #32 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

Prime Numbers - 354 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #18 / 104
Number of attempts: 3

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #30 / 135
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: #1014 / 1893
Number of attempts: 1

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: #322 / 753
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #382 / 1621
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #61 / 701
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11446 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1758 / 4194
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 41
Position: #99 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 659 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #50 / 214
Number of attempts: 5

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 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: 40
Position: #29 / 379
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #368 / 1264
Number of attempts: 7

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #28 / 82
Number of attempts: 6

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: 25
Position: #11 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #860 / 2125
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: 25
Position: #19 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 138 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #18 / 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: #15 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Sierpinski's Triangle - 86 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 31
Position: #14 / 27
Number of attempts: 4

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #9 / 269
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 647 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #168 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

Binary and Increment - 56 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 50
Position: #17 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 32
Position: #44 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #29 / 40
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #14 / 1190
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #215 / 347
Number of attempts: 2

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: 15
Position: #10 / 26
Number of attempts: 3

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #79 / 281
Number of attempts: 2

Land of the Lost - 81 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

Best score: 25
Best player score: 33
Position: #8 / 32
Number of attempts: 4

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #2 / 152
Number of attempts: 5

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: 24
Position: #17 / 60
Number of attempts: 3

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #34 / 88
Number of attempts: 5

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #154 / 444
Number of attempts: 3

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: 43
Position: #8 / 15
Number of attempts: 4

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: 24
Position: #12 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Fill visual area - 91 entries

Just have fun!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 34
Position: #15 / 38
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: 18
Position: #6 / 290
Number of attempts: 3

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: #3 / 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: 15
Position: #2 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #25 / 107
Number of attempts: 5

50 factorials mod 97 - 58 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #14 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

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: #70 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #17 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #11 / 25
Number of attempts: 3

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: #19 / 51
Number of attempts: 4

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: 24
Position: #28 / 83
Number of attempts: 2

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: #18 / 54
Number of attempts: 3

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: 13
Position: #80 / 247
Number of attempts: 3

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: 20
Position: #23 / 55
Number of attempts: 3

Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #30 / 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: #33 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 426 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #88 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

C to VimDict - 53 entries

Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 42
Position: #10 / 15
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15977 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1533 / 4177
Number of attempts: 2

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #32 / 69
Number of attempts: 4

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: 21
Position: #33 / 110
Number of attempts: 3

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #28 / 62
Number of attempts: 4

Roman numerals - 81 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #9 / 29
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #82 / 1137
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #74 / 354
Number of attempts: 4

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: 21
Position: #16 / 67
Number of attempts: 6

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #43 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #82 / 158
Number of attempts: 3

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #18 / 145
Number of attempts: 5

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #72 / 271
Number of attempts: 2

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: 33
Position: #39 / 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: 29
Position: #26 / 64
Number of attempts: 3

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: 40
Position: #12 / 42
Number of attempts: 4

Comparing scores - 112 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.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #9 / 35
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: 20
Position: #74 / 103
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #29 / 300
Number of attempts: 5

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: 12
Position: #183 / 585
Number of attempts: 4

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: 28
Position: #69 / 208
Number of attempts: 4

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #349 / 437
Number of attempts: 3

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: #14 / 52
Number of attempts: 4

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #29 / 250
Number of attempts: 6

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: 14
Position: #44 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 88 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.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 36
Position: #13 / 36
Number of attempts: 2

Going underground.... - 350 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 / 127
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 363 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.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #9 / 110
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10660 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1992 / 3681
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3511 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #90 / 698
Number of attempts: 10

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: 31
Position: #11 / 41
Number of attempts: 3

Counting in binary - 526 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #19 / 117
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: #269 / 518
Number of attempts: 4

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: 14
Position: #190 / 1078
Number of attempts: 4

Change The Perspective - 38 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'.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 47
Position: #18 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 348 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!

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #21 / 107
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12929 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1447 / 3961
Number of attempts: 4

Pairs of numbers - 363 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #30 / 136
Number of attempts: 3

It's a factor - 104 entries

Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 53
Position: #18 / 38
Number of attempts: 4

Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #148 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

Fibonacci Triangles - 59 entries

Triangles

Best score: 40
Best player score: 45
Position: #11 / 22
Number of attempts: 2

Lookahead and Lookbehind - 70 entries

Look everywhere

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #15 / 31
Number of attempts: 3

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #22 / 174
Number of attempts: 4

Coordinates placeholder - 73 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #14 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #43 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

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: 63
Position: #9 / 18
Number of attempts: 2

Transposition - 99 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 37
Position: #12 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #13 / 75
Number of attempts: 3

Groups magic - 158 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #60 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 629 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #13 / 196
Number of attempts: 4

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 114 entries

Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #21 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

Checkerboard case pattern - 164 entries

All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #17 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #23 / 196
Number of attempts: 3

Printable ASCII characters - 142 entries

From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 32
Position: #19 / 44
Number of attempts: 4

A simple change - 461 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #27 / 191
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: 29
Position: #10 / 46
Number of attempts: 4

Tiny column alignment - 61 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 44
Position: #13 / 23
Number of attempts: 3

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 416 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: 11
Position: #142 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 607 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #45 / 167
Number of attempts: 6

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: 8
Position: #67 / 446
Number of attempts: 2

Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #12 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

Unwrap the text of an email message - 189 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?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #23 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

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: 20
Position: #30 / 480
Number of attempts: 5

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 166 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?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #24 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #278 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

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: 19
Position: #10 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #155 / 754
Number of attempts: 5

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #36 / 230
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #179 / 777
Number of attempts: 2

Switch function arguments - 2136 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #273 / 662
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #227 / 419
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #56 / 199
Number of attempts: 3

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: 15
Position: #97 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #218 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #352 / 1748
Number of attempts: 1

Calculate the table totals - 146 entries

Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #16 / 45
Number of attempts: 3

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #21 / 193
Number of attempts: 14

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #46 / 151
Number of attempts: 5

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #66 / 650
Number of attempts: 3

remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #117 / 336
Number of attempts: 3

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 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!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #42 / 150
Number of attempts: 3

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 166 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #34 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #39 / 198
Number of attempts: 4

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 280 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #15 / 100
Number of attempts: 4

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 222 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #64 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #63 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #108 / 652
Number of attempts: 4

Java Array2List - 233 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 86
Position: #28 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

Assignment Alignment - 883 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #37 / 220
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 1998 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: #203 / 515
Number of attempts: 4

Round Round - 299 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #22 / 87
Number of attempts: 6

Table Reshuffle - 410 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #38 / 138
Number of attempts: 3

Letters are numbers - 167 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?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #9 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 627 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: #52 / 233
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: #308 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 514 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #25 / 161
Number of attempts: 6

Hatsuyume - 513 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #23 / 184
Number of attempts: 8

The Cake is a Lie - 1339 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #366 / 525
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 566 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.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #90 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 420 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #74 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1046 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #97 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

Linear congruential generator - 137 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #27 / 52
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat some Python - 604 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #31 / 235
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 757 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: 13
Position: #69 / 263
Number of attempts: 8

Reformat most common surnames - 698 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #63 / 208
Number of attempts: 4

Remember FizzBuzz? - 713 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 49
Position: #41 / 188
Number of attempts: 7

Get rid of html tags - 394 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #107 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1567 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #153 / 585
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1436 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #189 / 559
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 974 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: #19 / 313
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3614 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #108 / 780
Number of attempts: 9

Simple text editing with Vim - 12746 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1416 / 3682
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6942 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #119 / 1699
Number of attempts: 6

Contributed Challenges

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

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.

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.

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!

Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33609 entries

Wget failed to download redirections - 202 entries

Prime Numbers - 354 entries

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

V to the i - 4802 entries

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

That hyphen - 2595 entries

Just the middle - 11446 entries

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Interweave two blocks of text - 659 entries

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 entries

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

JSON string rotation - 64 entries

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

Separating firstname & lastname - 138 entries

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

Sierpinski's Triangle - 86 entries

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Swap assigned value - 647 entries

Binary and Increment - 56 entries

Change your calendar - 392 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

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

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 82 entries

Fill visual area - 91 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

Custom McCarthy sequence - 44 entries

Greek column realign - 51 entries

Winning streak - 135 entries

Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Test everything! - 186 entries

Condensed Cases - 804 entries

increment by column in XML - 152 entries

Square numbers - 123 entries

Pretty format for variable declarations - 170 entries

Happy TvvO - 426 entries

C to VimDict - 53 entries

I forgot quotes - 15977 entries

Shift down - 209 entries

vim1001 - 307 entries

Subtraction - 180 entries

Roman numerals - 81 entries

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Suffix sort - 270 entries

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Gray area - 747 entries

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 139 entries

Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

Winding path - 122 entries

Comparing scores - 112 entries

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Don't know what this is - 2022 entries

Two become one - 713 entries

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Piphilology - 144 entries

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries