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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33722 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: #1596 / 7442
Number of attempts: 10

Add text at some column - 173 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 34
Position: #50 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1563 / 3870
Number of attempts: 2

Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #182 / 283
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules (ver.2) - 239 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #50 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #275 / 1897
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2893 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #277 / 856
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #200 / 259
Number of attempts: 1

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1216 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #180 / 251
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1276 / 3072
Number of attempts: 6

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #230 / 530
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #197 / 635
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #510 / 1169
Number of attempts: 4

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 799 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #216 / 421
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #893 / 1881
Number of attempts: 2

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: #438 / 755
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #410 / 1630
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #85 / 701
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11483 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #420 / 4209
Number of attempts: 4

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #59 / 274
Number of attempts: 7

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 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: 18
Position: #148 / 215
Number of attempts: 2

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: 42
Position: #126 / 382
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #656 / 1269
Number of attempts: 5

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #39 / 82
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: 33
Position: #35 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #47 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #18 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #52 / 2138
Number of attempts: 9

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #63 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

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: 9
Position: #2 / 89
Number of attempts: 2

C Reformatting - 690 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 82
Position: #151 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #80 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

Lower cased and dashed strings - 49 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 59
Best player score: 107
Position: #19 / 20
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: 38
Position: #56 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #98 / 167
Number of attempts: 3

Array of characters - 175 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 41
Position: #27 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

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

Mirrored text - 177 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #34 / 71
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: 31
Position: #41 / 95
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: 12
Position: #34 / 82
Number of attempts: 3

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: 19
Position: #48 / 118
Number of attempts: 3

Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #1 / 118
Number of attempts: 7

Sudoku table - 92 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 68
Position: #28 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #79 / 184
Number of attempts: 2

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #60 / 128
Number of attempts: 2

Create bison tokens - 47 entries

Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words

Best score: 85
Best player score: 97
Position: #11 / 18
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: 65
Position: #28 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #84 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2059 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #334 / 507
Number of attempts: 1

Song Transcription Oops - 243 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #63 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

Separating firstname & lastname - 138 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #20 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #98 / 142
Number of attempts: 2

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #8 / 72
Number of attempts: 6

Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #13 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #41 / 269
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 655 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #80 / 256
Number of attempts: 3

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: #17 / 40
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #92 / 1191
Number of attempts: 7

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #225 / 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: 26
Position: #20 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #39 / 281
Number of attempts: 3

Land of the Lost - 81 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

Best score: 25
Best player score: 50
Position: #26 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #37 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #120 / 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: 17
Position: #5 / 60
Number of attempts: 4

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #43 / 88
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1658 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #39 / 445
Number of attempts: 4

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: 20
Position: #49 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

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: #26 / 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: #23 / 114
Number of attempts: 7

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: #29 / 96
Number of attempts: 5

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #49 / 107
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: #97 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

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: #20 / 51
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: #64 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #34 / 247
Number of attempts: 6

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: #25 / 55
Number of attempts: 4

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: 14
Position: #18 / 64
Number of attempts: 4

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #101 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #263 / 4189
Number of attempts: 8

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #17 / 69
Number of attempts: 6

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: #37 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #32 / 62
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #121 / 1138
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #79 / 354
Number of attempts: 3

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: 25
Position: #44 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #47 / 116
Number of attempts: 2

Change name of a variable - 179 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #95 / 137
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: #118 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #23 / 145
Number of attempts: 7

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #82 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

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: 34
Position: #44 / 58
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: 37
Position: #42 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

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: 60
Position: #30 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #91 / 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: #37 / 300
Number of attempts: 5

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: 11
Position: #50 / 586
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: 32
Position: #119 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #159 / 437
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #109 / 250
Number of attempts: 5

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: 13
Position: #15 / 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: 28
Position: #49 / 128
Number of attempts: 1

Split the words - 372 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: 20
Position: #17 / 112
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2057 / 3689
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #269 / 703
Number of attempts: 8

Counting in binary - 526 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #8 / 117
Number of attempts: 8

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: 10
Position: #135 / 518
Number of attempts: 3

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: 14
Position: #208 / 1079
Number of attempts: 3

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: 18
Position: #82 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Number an outline - 280 entries

The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 40
Position: #28 / 78
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #609 / 3969
Number of attempts: 3

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: 20
Position: #199 / 304
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 419 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #152 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 39
Position: #128 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #129 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 297 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #158 / 226
Number of attempts: 1

Readable Rubyhash - 267 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: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #56 / 95
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: #97 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 468 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #29 / 193
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 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: #78 / 193
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #198 / 361
Number of attempts: 2

lamb had a little Mary - 618 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #79 / 169
Number of attempts: 4

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: #75 / 446
Number of attempts: 6

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: 21
Position: #106 / 480
Number of attempts: 6

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #87 / 446
Number of attempts: 4

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: 30
Position: #63 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

calculations - 312 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 44
Position: #40 / 68
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: 23
Position: #237 / 757
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: 39
Position: #172 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #183 / 778
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2140 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #117 / 664
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #90 / 419
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #152 / 199
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: 15
Position: #100 / 273
Number of attempts: 5

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #83 / 263
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #373 / 1749
Number of attempts: 5

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 37
Position: #132 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #71 / 652
Number of attempts: 4

Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #11 / 216
Number of attempts: 4

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: 23
Position: #210 / 336
Number of attempts: 2

Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #55 / 180
Number of attempts: 5

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #98 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 30
Position: #76 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #64 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 450 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #89 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #144 / 654
Number of attempts: 4

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: 14
Position: #236 / 407
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #153 / 221
Number of attempts: 2

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: 11
Position: #36 / 519
Number of attempts: 7

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: #416 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 480 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #78 / 178
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 634 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: 16
Position: #141 / 235
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #314 / 460
Number of attempts: 2

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #324 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #5 / 165
Number of attempts: 9

Indentation - 550 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #35 / 180
Number of attempts: 5

Hatsuyume - 540 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #112 / 187
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1361 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #212 / 531
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 585 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: #93 / 248
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 506 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #186 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1059 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #101 / 345
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat some Python - 622 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 43
Position: #134 / 238
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat a C golf submission - 612 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #83 / 209
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 776 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: 12
Position: #8 / 267
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #103 / 215
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1593 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #421 / 594
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1477 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #193 / 575
Number of attempts: 1

Add fold markers to a .c file - 660 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 37
Position: #137 / 189
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: 22
Position: #275 / 425
Number of attempts: 1

Braces or Brackets? - 1054 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 49
Position: #225 / 324
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3742 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #113 / 803
Number of attempts: 8

Flodder-challenge - 1326 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 34
Position: #133 / 346
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12989 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1469 / 3737
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7154 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 33
Position: #252 / 1754
Number of attempts: 7

Walker Boh
Twitter: @walker_boh

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