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C to python code snippet - 88 entries

C code can be easily translated into Python code. However, the difference in syntax can make this process tedious and time-consuming. Can Vim help you here?

Best score: 48
Best player score: 68
Position: #17 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4515 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #227 / 1106
Number of attempts: 3

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: 20
Position: #20 / 481
Number of attempts: 5

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: #134 / 316
Number of attempts: 3

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: #19 / 310
Number of attempts: 2

Data reformat - 294 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 36
Best player score: 119
Position: #62 / 65
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: 12
Position: #19 / 224
Number of attempts: 3

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: 21
Position: #85 / 172
Number of attempts: 2

Capitalize the Names - 408 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #55 / 97
Number of attempts: 4

Yo To Hello - 1137 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #57 / 528
Number of attempts: 1

C# data class to F# record - 79 entries

Converting from C# to F# is not hard, but requires some manual labor. Here you should convert from a C# data class to a F# record.

Best score: 63
Best player score: 89
Position: #15 / 18
Number of attempts: 3

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: #64 / 232
Number of attempts: 7

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: 26
Position: #3703 / 7442
Number of attempts: 5

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: 22
Position: #151 / 262
Number of attempts: 1

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: 18
Position: #140 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 152 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #15 / 52
Number of attempts: 5

Add text at some column - 173 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 35
Position: #56 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #638 / 1274
Number of attempts: 4

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: 10
Position: #163 / 1546
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #650 / 3870
Number of attempts: 9

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: 37
Position: #41 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #107 / 283
Number of attempts: 4

add line and index - 100 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

Best score: 44
Best player score: 67
Position: #28 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

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: 56
Position: #116 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules (ver.2) - 239 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #52 / 60
Number of attempts: 3

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: 18
Position: #34 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Separate the lines - 182 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #82 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #315 / 583
Number of attempts: 2

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: 9
Position: #68 / 231
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1451 / 1897
Number of attempts: 1

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: 13
Position: #235 / 856
Number of attempts: 5

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 323 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 27
Position: #49 / 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: 27
Position: #192 / 259
Number of attempts: 3

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: #191 / 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: 23
Position: #57 / 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: 10
Position: #611 / 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: 21
Position: #297 / 530
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #563 / 635
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #769 / 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: 17
Position: #574 / 876
Number of attempts: 1

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: #253 / 421
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge3 - 38 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #19 / 35
Number of attempts: 1

Extract wireshark capture filter - 216 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #57 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #749 / 1881
Number of attempts: 3

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 135 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #16 / 47
Number of attempts: 3

Triangular Numbers - 104 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 43
Position: #28 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

Hash staircase - 56 entries

Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #11 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #193 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #237 / 381
Number of attempts: 6

html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 82
Position: #108 / 126
Number of attempts: 1

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: 20
Position: #345 / 460
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #125 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #581 / 704
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: 26
Position: #579 / 641
Number of attempts: 1

Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #29 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #80 / 119
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #548 / 755
Number of attempts: 2

Start coding format - 155 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #61 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #650 / 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: 39
Position: #102 / 129
Number of attempts: 1

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: #116 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #375 / 701
Number of attempts: 4

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: 11
Position: #228 / 323
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 129 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #27 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11483 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1380 / 4209
Number of attempts: 6

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: 51
Position: #17 / 21
Number of attempts: 1

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 110 entries

Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 41
Position: #38 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #545 / 589
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 42
Position: #115 / 274
Number of attempts: 1

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: 30
Position: #110 / 133
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #24 / 215
Number of attempts: 6

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: #39 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

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: 40
Position: #163 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Text to HTML Table - 180 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 81
Position: #51 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 entries

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

Best score: 39
Best player score: 44
Position: #247 / 382
Number of attempts: 1

For all cases. - 161 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #69 / 106
Number of attempts: 2

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 264 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #114 / 142
Number of attempts: 2

Stairstep digits - 398 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #42 / 146
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: 19
Position: #146 / 214
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #222 / 1269
Number of attempts: 1

Simple addition - 331 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #46 / 123
Number of attempts: 6

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: 22
Position: #76 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #48 / 82
Number of attempts: 5

Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #39 / 105
Number of attempts: 6

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: 18
Position: #251 / 292
Number of attempts: 1

Nesting SASS - 266 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #41 / 96
Number of attempts: 5

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: 40
Position: #38 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 40 entries

Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 35
Position: #11 / 16
Number of attempts: 2

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: #37 / 53
Number of attempts: 5

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: #97 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

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: 9
Position: #76 / 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: 15
Position: #26 / 83
Number of attempts: 7

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #43 / 122
Number of attempts: 5

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: 16
Position: #67 / 82
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #66 / 267
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1417 / 2138
Number of attempts: 3

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: #71 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

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: 28
Position: #67 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

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: #27 / 89
Number of attempts: 4

C Reformatting - 690 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 52
Position: #96 / 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: #94 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

Triangle of arrows - 199 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 26
Position: #35 / 44
Number of attempts: 3

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #36 / 65
Number of attempts: 8

Sorting a glossary - 131 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #63 / 81
Number of attempts: 2

Sort files from hosts - 188 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #71 / 76
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #229 / 260
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #39 / 167
Number of attempts: 7

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: 42
Position: #34 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #282 / 425
Number of attempts: 4

Mirrored text - 177 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #65 / 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: 37
Position: #83 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 320 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #96 / 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: 26
Position: #49 / 118
Number of attempts: 6

Sudoku table - 92 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 66
Position: #24 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Change attribute to getter - 140 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #48 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #103 / 184
Number of attempts: 4

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #76 / 128
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: #86 / 246
Number of attempts: 14

Hello ${world} - 324 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #75 / 96
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: 14
Position: #58 / 140
Number of attempts: 3

Python challenge - 172 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 58
Position: #36 / 46
Number of attempts: 1

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: 15
Position: #539 / 677
Number of attempts: 2

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: 17
Position: #162 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 147 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #30 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat Cura settings - 132 entries

Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json

Best score: 50
Best player score: 70
Position: #18 / 24
Number of attempts: 3

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: #346 / 507
Number of attempts: 1

Build a six - 294 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #82 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #174 / 249
Number of attempts: 3

ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #30 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Around the clock - 199 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #63 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #2 / 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: 5
Position: #230 / 400
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: 15
Position: #46 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #74 / 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: 22
Position: #58 / 91
Number of attempts: 3

Put the months in order - 974 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 50
Position: #128 / 163
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: 14
Position: #72 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

Add Go XML to structure tags - 172 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: 29
Position: #38 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #106 / 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: 26
Position: #61 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #328 / 449
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: 34
Position: #181 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #87 / 269
Number of attempts: 4

unknown command - 167 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #53 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 655 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #95 / 256
Number of attempts: 7

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #53 / 159
Number of attempts: 6

Cartesian product - 259 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 50
Position: #86 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #23 / 87
Number of attempts: 8

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 34
Position: #52 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #479 / 1191
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #322 / 347
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #241 / 281
Number of attempts: 4

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #48 / 69
Number of attempts: 3

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #132 / 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: 34
Position: #45 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #50 / 88
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1658 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #259 / 445
Number of attempts: 2

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: 15
Position: #33 / 67
Number of attempts: 9

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #112 / 290
Number of attempts: 4

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: 20
Position: #68 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 246 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #35 / 96
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #102 / 107
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: 31
Position: #78 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Test everything! - 186 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #24 / 54
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: 15
Position: #173 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

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: 19
Position: #6 / 55
Number of attempts: 3

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: 17
Position: #42 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #142 / 206
Number of attempts: 3

C to VimDict - 53 entries

Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 51
Position: #15 / 15
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1957 / 4189
Number of attempts: 6

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 37
Position: #66 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #114 / 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: 29
Position: #96 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #283 / 1138
Number of attempts: 5

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #272 / 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: 23
Position: #27 / 67
Number of attempts: 11

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #58 / 116
Number of attempts: 4

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: #112 / 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: 13
Position: #53 / 158
Number of attempts: 4

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 26
Position: #123 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #122 / 271
Number of attempts: 5

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: 40
Position: #55 / 58
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: 34
Position: #36 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #30 / 103
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #188 / 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: 13
Position: #275 / 586
Number of attempts: 3

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: 34
Position: #141 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #402 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 40
Position: #91 / 102
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #141 / 250
Number of attempts: 4

Shuffle puzzle - 346 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #95 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 356 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #67 / 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: 34
Position: #37 / 112
Number of attempts: 7

Permutations N=4 - 61 entries

Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !

Best score: 25
Best player score: 40
Position: #14 / 19
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1513 / 3689
Number of attempts: 4

attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #303 / 703
Number of attempts: 6

Counting in binary - 526 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #48 / 117
Number of attempts: 3

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: 11
Position: #290 / 518
Number of attempts: 5

quotes inside quotes - 3165 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #662 / 1079
Number of attempts: 2

Top X - 212 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

Best score: 18
Best player score: 48
Position: #68 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #72 / 107
Number of attempts: 3

Number an outline - 280 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 46
Position: #35 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1824 / 3969
Number of attempts: 3

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: 40
Position: #89 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Assign list - 192 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 58
Position: #52 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 1018 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #252 / 304
Number of attempts: 5

Delete unwanted lines - 419 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #179 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 179 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #69 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Word frequency alignment - 291 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #106 / 161
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #82 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Define to require - 127 entries

When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.

Best score: 62
Best player score: 78
Position: #23 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #52 / 55
Number of attempts: 2

REDRUM - 171 entries

If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #41 / 66
Number of attempts: 3

Enumerate words - 254 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 37
Position: #84 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

Execute immediate SQL - 90 entries

Sql string tranformation ...

Best score: 58
Best player score: 61
Position: #4 / 32
Number of attempts: 5

Transposition - 99 entries

Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 85
Position: #30 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #38 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Groups magic - 161 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #66 / 94
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #144 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor arguments into object argument - 166 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 58
Position: #21 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Resort and deup a CSV list - 170 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 49
Position: #26 / 44
Number of attempts: 3

Sort by your own sum - 86 entries

Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 38
Position: #27 / 30
Number of attempts: 4

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: 31
Position: #77 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 185 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 43
Position: #49 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Rule 110 - 46 entries

Compute the next 5 iterations of Rule 110 with the given starting state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110

Best score: 43
Best player score: 59
Position: #9 / 13
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #105 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffle and Sort - 229 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #41 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 468 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #125 / 193
Number of attempts: 4

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 200 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #18 / 107
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: 11
Position: #156 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #254 / 361
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 618 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #22 / 169
Number of attempts: 13

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: #110 / 446
Number of attempts: 9

Unwrap the text of an email message - 192 entries

Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #53 / 75
Number of attempts: 4

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: 35
Position: #27 / 57
Number of attempts: 9

Array Transposition - 201 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 41
Position: #33 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

maximun and minimun - 73 entries

Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.

Best score: 50
Best player score: 77
Position: #22 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 203 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 44
Position: #48 / 79
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: 28
Position: #303 / 480
Number of attempts: 2

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 166 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #25 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

Create an alphabet diamond - 105 entries

Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...

Best score: 37
Best player score: 72
Position: #22 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #324 / 446
Number of attempts: 6

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: 39
Position: #102 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 32
Position: #58 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Alphabet soup - 429 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #66 / 108
Number of attempts: 3

calculations - 312 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 50
Position: #49 / 68
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: #499 / 757
Number of attempts: 1

Make the circuit grid! - 101 entries

Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 32
Position: #40 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 259 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #69 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #158 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #489 / 778
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #126 / 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: 20
Position: #184 / 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: #133 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

constructor - 182 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

Best score: 59
Best player score: 97
Position: #31 / 60
Number of attempts: 3

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #112 / 263
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #623 / 1749
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #294 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

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: #30 / 193
Number of attempts: 21

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #65 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 44
Position: #11 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #49 / 149
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #544 / 652
Number of attempts: 5

Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #203 / 216
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #250 / 336
Number of attempts: 2

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 98 entries

Same class but reverse!

Best score: 79
Best player score: 128
Position: #25 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 45
Position: #93 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

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: 27
Position: #66 / 150
Number of attempts: 1

Complete the hex array data - 197 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #52 / 74
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: 27
Position: #169 / 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: 18
Position: #96 / 117
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #104 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 287 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #88 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 230 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #68 / 99
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: 33
Position: #137 / 166
Number of attempts: 2

Before there was Farmville... - 101 entries

There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?

Best score: 156
Best player score: 259
Position: #44 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #86 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

expand a list comprehension (python) - 334 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 52
Position: #52 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 361 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: 27
Position: #134 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #168 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Overall Vimgolf Rank - 216 entries

Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 39
Position: #41 / 59
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: #91 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #50 / 654
Number of attempts: 1

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 163 entries

Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #65 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Getters & Setters: Java - 211 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Best score: 89
Best player score: 115
Position: #29 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

Java Array2List - 233 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 132
Position: #74 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

The holy-grail may help - 377 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #188 / 212
Number of attempts: 2

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: 13
Position: #185 / 407
Number of attempts: 3

Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #52 / 221
Number of attempts: 6

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: 16
Position: #329 / 519
Number of attempts: 2

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: #509 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 439 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 36
Position: #95 / 142
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: 22
Position: #46 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #36 / 90
Number of attempts: 4

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: 17
Position: #152 / 235
Number of attempts: 3

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #385 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 38
Position: #121 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 540 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #29 / 187
Number of attempts: 1

Turn this csv list into queries - 252 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 116
Position: #45 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1361 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #258 / 531
Number of attempts: 9

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: #107 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #110 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 506 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #143 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #115 / 146
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1059 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #257 / 345
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 622 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 40
Position: #95 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

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: 20
Position: #210 / 267
Number of attempts: 1

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 217 entries

According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #53 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #119 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 407 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #120 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1593 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #426 / 594
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting folded text - 386 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #40 / 121
Number of attempts: 5

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: #495 / 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: 34
Position: #82 / 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: #277 / 425
Number of attempts: 4

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: 52
Position: #261 / 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: 34
Position: #673 / 803
Number of attempts: 2

Flodder-challenge - 1326 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #206 / 346
Number of attempts: 1

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: 18
Position: #2679 / 3737
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7154 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 51
Position: #1433 / 1754
Number of attempts: 1

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