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Played Challenges

Poorly indented Python comments - 1316 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #103 / 222
Number of attempts: 5

swap number pairs - 2115 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #152 / 384
Number of attempts: 1

Rural Post - 4532 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #678 / 1107
Number of attempts: 1

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: 24
Position: #233 / 481
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1142 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #198 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #4062 / 7442
Number of attempts: 6

Add text at some column - 173 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 34
Position: #52 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1091 / 1274
Number of attempts: 1

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: #483 / 1546
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2246 / 3870
Number of attempts: 4

Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #36 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #86 / 283
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules (ver.2) - 239 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #20 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #500 / 583
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: 15
Position: #1870 / 1897
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2897 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #595 / 857
Number of attempts: 1

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #134 / 259
Number of attempts: 2

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: 26
Position: #133 / 251
Number of attempts: 1

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: 25
Position: #72 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1005 / 3072
Number of attempts: 4

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #330 / 530
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #579 / 635
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #927 / 1169
Number of attempts: 4

Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 28
Position: #741 / 876
Number of attempts: 1

Extract wireshark capture filter - 216 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #48 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #974 / 1881
Number of attempts: 6

multiple cursor alternative - 1521 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: 21
Position: #219 / 381
Number of attempts: 4

From argument to object - 1513 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: 22
Position: #400 / 460
Number of attempts: 1

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #120 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

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: 19
Position: #385 / 641
Number of attempts: 3

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: 14
Position: #377 / 755
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1048 / 1630
Number of attempts: 2

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: 39
Position: #101 / 129
Number of attempts: 1

comment and uncomment code inline - 1124 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: 12
Position: #270 / 323
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2906 / 4209
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #457 / 589
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 entries

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

Best score: 39
Best player score: 43
Position: #188 / 382
Number of attempts: 1

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: #90 / 214
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 25
Position: #1158 / 1269
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 987 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: 25
Position: #238 / 271
Number of attempts: 2

Nesting SASS - 266 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #63 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1389 / 2138
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #281 / 425
Number of attempts: 1

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: 19
Position: #212 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

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: 24
Position: #640 / 677
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 662 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #154 / 208
Number of attempts: 4

Line under headers - 2059 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 34
Position: #353 / 507
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #213 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #111 / 151
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: 6
Position: #326 / 400
Number of attempts: 2

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #124 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Remove quotes after first field - 380 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #87 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #190 / 265
Number of attempts: 3

move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #129 / 142
Number of attempts: 1

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: 31
Position: #145 / 227
Number of attempts: 3

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #142 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 34
Position: #51 / 70
Number of attempts: 4

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #440 / 1191
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #148 / 281
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #367 / 446
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: 16
Position: #191 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1214 / 4189
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1025 / 1138
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #236 / 271
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 33
Position: #296 / 300
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2024 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #566 / 586
Number of attempts: 1

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: 35
Position: #162 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #3411 / 3689
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 35
Position: #590 / 703
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #444 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3165 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #931 / 1079
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2994 / 3969
Number of attempts: 1

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: 39
Position: #454 / 480
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2552 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #495 / 757
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #487 / 778
Number of attempts: 2

Switch function arguments - 2142 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #515 / 665
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #353 / 419
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1436 / 1749
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #543 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #350 / 654
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1361 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #459 / 531
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1063 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #209 / 346
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1593 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #494 / 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: 38
Position: #494 / 575
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2673 / 3739
Number of attempts: 2