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Generate a very basic Python constructor - 316 entries

I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 81
Position: #87 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 1187 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #203 / 294
Number of attempts: 1

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 57
Position: #99 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

RUST match with enum for Coin - 183 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 110
Position: #33 / 53
Number of attempts: 3

Enumerate Bullets - 327 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 100
Position: #87 / 89
Number of attempts: 2

Easy modification of ssh config - 382 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 40
Position: #86 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

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

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 46
Position: #52 / 56
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: 23
Position: #911 / 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: 32
Position: #386 / 481
Number of attempts: 2

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1007 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #305 / 316
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 731 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 13
Position: #299 / 310
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 716 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #200 / 224
Number of attempts: 1

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: 33
Position: #153 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1142 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #500 / 529
Number of attempts: 1

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

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 50
Position: #215 / 232
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: 32
Position: #6007 / 7442
Number of attempts: 2

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: 35
Position: #241 / 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: 26
Position: #184 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #1192 / 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: 23
Position: #1438 / 1546
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 32
Position: #3704 / 3870
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #239 / 283
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: 58
Position: #122 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 27
Position: #528 / 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: 16
Position: #1882 / 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: 18
Position: #696 / 857
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 323 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 42
Position: #71 / 71
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: 31
Position: #239 / 259
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #2716 / 3072
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #435 / 530
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 34
Position: #612 / 635
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1070 / 1169
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 56
Position: #854 / 876
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #1474 / 1881
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #203 / 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: 60
Position: #376 / 381
Number of attempts: 1

html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 98
Position: #118 / 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: 31
Position: #442 / 460
Number of attempts: 1

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #148 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 30
Position: #692 / 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: 39
Position: #627 / 641
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: 24
Position: #742 / 755
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #1501 / 1630
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 29
Position: #697 / 701
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3887 / 4209
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 29
Position: #582 / 589
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: 34
Position: #208 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 31
Position: #1225 / 1269
Number of attempts: 1

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: 34
Position: #266 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 36
Position: #254 / 267
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1794 / 2138
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: 30
Position: #240 / 246
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: 26
Position: #657 / 677
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2059 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 43
Position: #463 / 507
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #209 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 829 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 9
Position: #387 / 400
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: 43
Position: #258 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Position: #136 / 142
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 50
Position: #428 / 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: 38
Position: #204 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 31
Position: #1175 / 1191
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 36
Position: #437 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #3699 / 4189
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #1102 / 1138
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 46
Position: #664 / 703
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #3336 / 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: 74
Position: #476 / 480
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabet soup - 429 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 43
Position: #96 / 108
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: 33
Position: #704 / 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: 39
Position: #760 / 778
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #1664 / 1749
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3744 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 48
Position: #771 / 804
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: 28
Position: #3360 / 3739
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7157 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 66
Position: #1636 / 1755
Number of attempts: 1