VimGolf - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke!

Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: #1133 / 7420
Number of attempts: 16

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #466 / 1268
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #866 / 3864
Number of attempts: 10

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: 17
Position: #20 / 65
Number of attempts: 5

Separate the lines - 182 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #45 / 92
Number of attempts: 3

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #34 / 135
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #165 / 579
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: #1333 / 1893
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2880 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #327 / 851
Number of attempts: 8

Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #38 / 101
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #550 / 634
Number of attempts: 4

Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #216 / 865
Number of attempts: 9

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 766 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #243 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #583 / 1876
Number of attempts: 4

Triangular Numbers - 104 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #9 / 29
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #81 / 230
Number of attempts: 6

multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #158 / 380
Number of attempts: 5

From argument to object - 1508 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #104 / 458
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #235 / 703
Number of attempts: 9

Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #110 / 640
Number of attempts: 9

Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #52 / 119
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #360 / 753
Number of attempts: 5

Start coding format - 155 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #28 / 72
Number of attempts: 7

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #545 / 1624
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: 31
Position: #26 / 129
Number of attempts: 8

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: #84 / 166
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #249 / 701
Number of attempts: 6

comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #193 / 322
Number of attempts: 4

Letterbox - 145 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 56
Position: #21 / 28
Number of attempts: 13

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2549 / 4197
Number of attempts: 5

On Being Stylish - 81 entries

Your PR cannot be accepted if you don't follow our corporate style guide.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #12 / 21
Number of attempts: 8

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #109 / 588
Number of attempts: 9

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #52 / 273
Number of attempts: 13

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: 22
Position: #60 / 133
Number of attempts: 9

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: #59 / 214
Number of attempts: 2

Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #38 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

Todo list specification - 399 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #67 / 179
Number of attempts: 3

Subnetting - 131 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 34
Position: #19 / 39
Number of attempts: 9

Text to HTML Table - 180 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 53
Position: #26 / 53
Number of attempts: 12

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 40
Position: #37 / 380
Number of attempts: 4

Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 27 entries

Convert from one format to another

Best score: 56
Best player score: 82
Position: #10 / 12
Number of attempts: 2

For all cases. - 161 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #63 / 106
Number of attempts: 2

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 261 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #104 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 394 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #104 / 145
Number of attempts: 3

Missing Library and a Typo - 887 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: #80 / 213
Number of attempts: 8

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #147 / 1264
Number of attempts: 15

Simple addition - 326 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #72 / 122
Number of attempts: 4

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #51 / 79
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 984 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #74 / 270
Number of attempts: 6

Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #54 / 105
Number of attempts: 7

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 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: #123 / 291
Number of attempts: 1

Nesting SASS - 266 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #59 / 96
Number of attempts: 4

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 36
Position: #25 / 63
Number of attempts: 6

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: 25
Position: #5 / 53
Number of attempts: 11

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

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #148 / 174
Number of attempts: 4

Combines all items - 313 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #124 / 140
Number of attempts: 5

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: 16
Position: #35 / 83
Number of attempts: 4

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #68 / 122
Number of attempts: 6

underscore_to_camelCase - 173 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #56 / 82
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #422 / 2128
Number of attempts: 5

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #33 / 77
Number of attempts: 4

7th Birthday - 202 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #25 / 75
Number of attempts: 12

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: 11
Position: #78 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 690 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #47 / 163
Number of attempts: 14

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #69 / 125
Number of attempts: 5

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: #33 / 65
Number of attempts: 7

Sort files from hosts - 188 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #28 / 76
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #123 / 259
Number of attempts: 8

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #80 / 167
Number of attempts: 8

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: 36
Position: #21 / 47
Number of attempts: 7

comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #268 / 424
Number of attempts: 1

Mirrored text - 177 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #30 / 71
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 278 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #38 / 95
Number of attempts: 6

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: #68 / 82
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: 18
Position: #41 / 118
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #63 / 118
Number of attempts: 6

Change attribute to getter - 140 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #24 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #48 / 184
Number of attempts: 11

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #59 / 128
Number of attempts: 8

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: 12
Position: #103 / 246
Number of attempts: 12

A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #27 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

Hello ${world} - 324 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #44 / 96
Number of attempts: 6

Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #109 / 140
Number of attempts: 4

Add Go XML to structure tags - 170 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #15 / 69
Number of attempts: 4

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #38 / 72
Number of attempts: 4

Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #8 / 448
Number of attempts: 13

convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #48 / 227
Number of attempts: 5

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #118 / 269
Number of attempts: 5

Swap assigned value - 647 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #185 / 254
Number of attempts: 4

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #94 / 159
Number of attempts: 7

Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #21 / 87
Number of attempts: 16

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #21 / 70
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #398 / 1190
Number of attempts: 9

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #264 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #144 / 281
Number of attempts: 5

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #75 / 152
Number of attempts: 6

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #31 / 88
Number of attempts: 11

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #121 / 444
Number of attempts: 6

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: 14
Position: #10 / 67
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #68 / 290
Number of attempts: 9

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: 18
Position: #51 / 114
Number of attempts: 6

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: #34 / 96
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #37 / 107
Number of attempts: 8

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: #131 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #51 / 83
Number of attempts: 5

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: #96 / 247
Number of attempts: 3

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #135 / 206
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #652 / 4180
Number of attempts: 9

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #28 / 69
Number of attempts: 6

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #107 / 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: 20
Position: #11 / 110
Number of attempts: 6

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #376 / 1137
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #84 / 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: 33
Position: #65 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #76 / 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: 13
Position: #47 / 158
Number of attempts: 4

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #29 / 145
Number of attempts: 10

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #112 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

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: #28 / 64
Number of attempts: 6

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #26 / 103
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #95 / 300
Number of attempts: 9

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: #220 / 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: 26
Position: #36 / 208
Number of attempts: 9

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #203 / 437
Number of attempts: 3

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #21 / 102
Number of attempts: 12

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #92 / 250
Number of attempts: 9

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: #18 / 104
Number of attempts: 4

Going underground.... - 356 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #25 / 128
Number of attempts: 6

Split the words - 368 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: 34
Position: #36 / 111
Number of attempts: 15

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1235 / 3683
Number of attempts: 4

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #187 / 702
Number of attempts: 14

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: #22 / 117
Number of attempts: 25

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: #163 / 518
Number of attempts: 6

quotes inside quotes - 3159 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #482 / 1078
Number of attempts: 6

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: 16
Position: #57 / 107
Number of attempts: 7

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1694 / 3963
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: #33 / 136
Number of attempts: 9

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: 17
Position: #110 / 304
Number of attempts: 6

Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #172 / 229
Number of attempts: 3

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #44 / 174
Number of attempts: 6

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #28 / 201
Number of attempts: 5

abcd > a b c d - 291 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #174 / 222
Number of attempts: 1

[Real World] PHP To Markdown - 33 entries

Fun refactoring I had to do in the real world. This presents several challenges: - How to create a table that fits the informations exactly - How to keep track of two informations per line while doing the refactoring - Generate the link from the actual text Have fun!

Best score: 141
Best player score: 164
Position: #7 / 9
Number of attempts: 6

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #54 / 196
Number of attempts: 3

A simple change - 461 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #40 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 420 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #89 / 192
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #245 / 360
Number of attempts: 2

lamb had a little Mary - 609 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #17 / 168
Number of attempts: 14

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #241 / 446
Number of attempts: 7

Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #55 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

Array Transposition - 201 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 29
Position: #22 / 56
Number of attempts: 8

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: #120 / 480
Number of attempts: 12

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #312 / 445
Number of attempts: 5

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: 26
Position: #33 / 113
Number of attempts: 3

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: #171 / 754
Number of attempts: 6

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #41 / 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: 20
Position: #280 / 777
Number of attempts: 10

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #311 / 663
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #243 / 419
Number of attempts: 4

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: #61 / 199
Number of attempts: 6

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: #124 / 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: 6
Position: #98 / 263
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #528 / 1748
Number of attempts: 4

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #284 / 363
Number of attempts: 2

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: #28 / 193
Number of attempts: 17

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #47 / 151
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #186 / 650
Number of attempts: 7

Line Zipper - 473 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #62 / 215
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: 17
Position: #75 / 336
Number of attempts: 15

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: #44 / 150
Number of attempts: 6

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: #59 / 180
Number of attempts: 1

Sort entries based on date - 392 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #65 / 117
Number of attempts: 8

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #46 / 198
Number of attempts: 6

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: #79 / 166
Number of attempts: 7

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #15 / 204
Number of attempts: 13

Reformat long lines - 358 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #26 / 134
Number of attempts: 4

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #19 / 206
Number of attempts: 11

Insert a Markdown link - 439 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #39 / 147
Number of attempts: 8

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #36 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 366 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #148 / 209
Number of attempts: 3

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1244 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: 13
Position: #177 / 406
Number of attempts: 5

Assignment Alignment - 883 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #73 / 220
Number of attempts: 8

Shebangs for all - 1999 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #153 / 516
Number of attempts: 11

A Simple One - 1050 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: #489 / 664
Number of attempts: 2

Table Reshuffle - 429 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #26 / 139
Number of attempts: 9

Reverse and count - 473 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: 21
Position: #23 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 629 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #115 / 234
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #341 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #25 / 408
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting paragraphs - 534 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #48 / 163
Number of attempts: 6

Indentation - 542 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #36 / 178
Number of attempts: 7

Hatsuyume - 532 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #26 / 186
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #384 / 527
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 577 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: #104 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1052 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #202 / 344
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat some Python - 609 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #36 / 236
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat a C golf submission - 604 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: #85 / 208
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 771 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #78 / 265
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat most common surnames - 717 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #19 / 210
Number of attempts: 5

Remember FizzBuzz? - 725 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 46
Position: #25 / 190
Number of attempts: 6

Get rid of html tags - 398 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #10 / 230
Number of attempts: 6

Change the content of a string - 1580 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #304 / 588
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1451 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #215 / 563
Number of attempts: 3

Add fold markers to a .c file - 625 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #79 / 183
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1507 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #232 / 412
Number of attempts: 6

Braces or Brackets? - 1015 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #45 / 315
Number of attempts: 7

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3665 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #134 / 787
Number of attempts: 12

Flodder-challenge - 1262 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #69 / 335
Number of attempts: 10

Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1719 / 3694
Number of attempts: 10

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 38
Position: #648 / 1706
Number of attempts: 10