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Played Challenges

Increment number for every 10 lines - 231 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #12 / 65
Number of attempts: 5

simple replacements - 1793 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #13 / 389
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1907 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #312 / 512
Number of attempts: 1

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #29 / 100
Number of attempts: 4

RUST match with enum for Coin - 183 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 85
Position: #3 / 53
Number of attempts: 10

Modernise code - 1402 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #17 / 324
Number of attempts: 3

Staircase - 149 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #12 / 34
Number of attempts: 2

Enumerate Bullets - 327 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #31 / 89
Number of attempts: 8

Put a cross in the square - 228 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #48 / 91
Number of attempts: 2

swap number pairs - 2115 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #123 / 384
Number of attempts: 5

HS Final exam vimgolf - 904 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #56 / 238
Number of attempts: 3

Easy modification of ssh config - 382 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #48 / 115
Number of attempts: 3

ssh config skills - 258 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 41
Position: #3 / 66
Number of attempts: 6

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 309 entries

Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #11 / 56
Number of attempts: 10

Rural Post - 4515 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #374 / 1106
Number of attempts: 4

Satisfy the go linter - 2437 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #184 / 481
Number of attempts: 9

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1001 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #145 / 316
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 731 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #94 / 310
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 716 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #166 / 224
Number of attempts: 2

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 776 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #67 / 172
Number of attempts: 5

Yo To Hello - 1137 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #27 / 528
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1150 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #63 / 232
Number of attempts: 11

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: #1621 / 7442
Number of attempts: 9

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #93 / 262
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #116 / 204
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #418 / 1274
Number of attempts: 2

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6337 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #677 / 1546
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #648 / 3870
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #73 / 283
Number of attempts: 9

Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #28 / 155
Number of attempts: 12

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #172 / 583
Number of attempts: 4

Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #146 / 231
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1213 / 1897
Number of attempts: 2

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: #481 / 856
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 323 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #31 / 71
Number of attempts: 5

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #94 / 259
Number of attempts: 4

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: 19
Position: #49 / 251
Number of attempts: 12

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1436 / 3072
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #208 / 530
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #236 / 635
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #545 / 1169
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #326 / 876
Number of attempts: 5

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #330 / 1881
Number of attempts: 8

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #62 / 230
Number of attempts: 5

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #89 / 178
Number of attempts: 10

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #261 / 704
Number of attempts: 6

Copy three lines - 2875 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #169 / 641
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: #660 / 1630
Number of attempts: 3

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #16 / 129
Number of attempts: 4

Number Sort - 314 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #118 / 166
Number of attempts: 3

Flip the bit - 129 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #29 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11483 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2332 / 4209
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #205 / 589
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: 34
Position: #28 / 274
Number of attempts: 6

Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #46 / 133
Number of attempts: 10

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 264 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #118 / 142
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 893 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #97 / 214
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #302 / 1269
Number of attempts: 10

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 867 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #145 / 292
Number of attempts: 2

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #7 / 83
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #763 / 2138
Number of attempts: 5

Double and switch - 43 entries

Aaaanother case switcher

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #17 / 19
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 690 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #48 / 163
Number of attempts: 7

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #37 / 125
Number of attempts: 13

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #99 / 260
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #286 / 425
Number of attempts: 3

Align commas - 1095 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #88 / 246
Number of attempts: 10

Hello ${world} - 324 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #47 / 96
Number of attempts: 13

One to Ten - 2227 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #395 / 677
Number of attempts: 5

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 147 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #65 / 77
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: 24
Position: #8 / 507
Number of attempts: 9

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #179 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 829 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #44 / 400
Number of attempts: 2

Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #79 / 265
Number of attempts: 6

move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #24 / 142
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #36 / 449
Number of attempts: 18

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #501 / 1191
Number of attempts: 8

Space out the alphabet - 1658 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #133 / 445
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1219 / 4189
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #354 / 1138
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #72 / 300
Number of attempts: 13

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2452 / 3689
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #194 / 703
Number of attempts: 13

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: 9
Position: #30 / 518
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1864 / 3969
Number of attempts: 2

Chinese Multiplication Table - 81 entries

Print a Chinese multiplication table in Vim. In China, every kid is asked to memorize this table. And thanks to the mono-syllabism of Chinese characters, it is not that hard. Printing the multiplication table is also a good exercise for programming beginners. For-loop, escaped characters, etc... There should be some special ways to print it in Vim.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #2 / 26
Number of attempts: 20

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: #114 / 446
Number of attempts: 11

ASCII-art Histogram - 320 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #18 / 57
Number of attempts: 5

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: #67 / 480
Number of attempts: 13

Alphabet soup - 429 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #42 / 108
Number of attempts: 7

calculations - 312 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 39
Position: #27 / 68
Number of attempts: 12

Vertical Limit - 2552 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #89 / 757
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 2140 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #174 / 664
Number of attempts: 6

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #993 / 1749
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: 14
Position: #193 / 652
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #54 / 654
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: 12
Position: #157 / 519
Number of attempts: 4

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #364 / 410
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #17 / 141
Number of attempts: 6

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: #1861 / 3737
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7154 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #167 / 1754
Number of attempts: 10