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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: 26
Position: #3468 / 7442
Number of attempts: 3

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #77 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1627 / 1897
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #439 / 755
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1378 / 1630
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #608 / 701
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3385 / 4209
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 59
Position: #257 / 274
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 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: 44
Position: #239 / 382
Number of attempts: 2

Extended Customer 2 - 49 entries

Format the chars

Best score: 47
Best player score: 65
Position: #9 / 21
Number of attempts: 1

Acute accents - 33 entries

Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #10 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #1118 / 1269
Number of attempts: 3

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: 44
Position: #49 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1173 / 2138
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #122 / 425
Number of attempts: 1

lipsum lines - 278 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 33
Position: #60 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 320 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!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #98 / 118
Number of attempts: 1

Sudoku table - 92 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 59
Position: #17 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #108 / 128
Number of attempts: 1

Manual SQL - 160 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 81
Position: #44 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 15
Position: #258 / 269
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 655 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #172 / 256
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: #30 / 40
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #915 / 1191
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 568 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #226 / 349
Number of attempts: 1

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #62 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #61 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #243 / 290
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #78 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #77 / 107
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: #98 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

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: #65 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #194 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3149 / 4189
Number of attempts: 1

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #58 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #79 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

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: 26
Position: #89 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #1080 / 1138
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #236 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #99 / 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: 16
Position: #119 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 28
Position: #127 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

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: 41
Position: #53 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2024 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: 16
Position: #500 / 586
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #363 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 364 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 41
Position: #93 / 103
Number of attempts: 1

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: 18
Position: #93 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

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: 31
Position: #86 / 128
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3088 / 3689
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #345 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3165 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #621 / 1079
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2889 / 3969
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #218 / 304
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #153 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 671 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #199 / 362
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 618 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #132 / 169
Number of attempts: 1

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: 14
Position: #372 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #282 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

Enharmonic Equivalents - 59 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #31 / 37
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2552 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #595 / 757
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 39
Position: #173 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #540 / 778
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2142 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #407 / 665
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #343 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #225 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1181 / 1749
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #255 / 363
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #572 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

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: 25
Position: #246 / 336
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #410 / 654
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #299 / 407
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #187 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2018 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: 19
Position: #403 / 519
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1057 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #417 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #320 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1365 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #451 / 532
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1063 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #287 / 346
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 622 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 47
Position: #165 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1593 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #482 / 594
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1589 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #351 / 425
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3744 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #466 / 804
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 26
Position: #3242 / 3739
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7157 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 42
Position: #992 / 1755
Number of attempts: 1

Gerald Tilma
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