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Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1447 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #96 / 470
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1788 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #51 / 557
Number of attempts: 1

hello-world-vimgolf - 2501 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #346 / 709
Number of attempts: 2

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 329 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #58 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1400 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #85 / 323
Number of attempts: 3

swap number pairs - 2115 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #95 / 384
Number of attempts: 4

Python: Def to Lambda - 455 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #42 / 156
Number of attempts: 4

Rural Post - 4515 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #432 / 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: 21
Position: #190 / 481
Number of attempts: 7

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: #166 / 316
Number of attempts: 4

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: #149 / 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: 12
Position: #117 / 224
Number of attempts: 4

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: 18
Position: #46 / 172
Number of attempts: 9

Yo To Hello - 1137 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #330 / 528
Number of attempts: 4

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: 23
Position: #2812 / 7442
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #521 / 1274
Number of attempts: 5

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6332 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #735 / 1545
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #736 / 3870
Number of attempts: 6

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #52 / 135
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #214 / 583
Number of attempts: 10

Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #150 / 231
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1482 / 1897
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2893 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #263 / 856
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: 20
Position: #114 / 251
Number of attempts: 8

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1746 / 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: 19
Position: #209 / 530
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #160 / 635
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #846 / 1169
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3868 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #337 / 875
Number of attempts: 7

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #551 / 1881
Number of attempts: 4

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: 11
Position: #35 / 47
Number of attempts: 3

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: 20
Position: #196 / 381
Number of attempts: 8

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: 17
Position: #142 / 460
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #265 / 704
Number of attempts: 6

Copy three lines - 2875 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #178 / 641
Number of attempts: 6

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: #389 / 755
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #884 / 1630
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #278 / 701
Number of attempts: 3

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: 10
Position: #214 / 323
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11483 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3168 / 4209
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #324 / 589
Number of attempts: 4

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 67 entries

I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #37 / 39
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #303 / 1269
Number of attempts: 10

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: 13
Position: #77 / 123
Number of attempts: 2

Combines all items - 313 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #126 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #854 / 2138
Number of attempts: 4

Sort files from hosts - 188 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #31 / 76
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #138 / 260
Number of attempts: 5

Change attribute to getter - 140 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #43 / 59
Number of attempts: 8

Align commas - 1095 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #106 / 246
Number of attempts: 10

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: 12
Position: #338 / 677
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: 27
Position: #197 / 507
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #180 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge6 - 65 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 3
Best player score: 3
Position: #36 / 51
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #7 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #141 / 161
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: 15
Position: #122 / 265
Number of attempts: 6

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #170 / 449
Number of attempts: 8

Swap assigned value - 655 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #191 / 256
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #513 / 1191
Number of attempts: 3

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #149 / 281
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1658 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #135 / 445
Number of attempts: 6

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: 17
Position: #35 / 114
Number of attempts: 14

Condensed Cases - 804 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #98 / 247
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1239 / 4188
Number of attempts: 9

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #15 / 62
Number of attempts: 12

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #425 / 1138
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #88 / 354
Number of attempts: 3

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #87 / 158
Number of attempts: 7

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #32 / 145
Number of attempts: 9

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #123 / 271
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #208 / 300
Number of attempts: 4

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: 12
Position: #239 / 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: 26
Position: #38 / 208
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2503 / 3689
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #170 / 518
Number of attempts: 7

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: 14
Position: #346 / 1079
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1164 / 3969
Number of attempts: 4

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 104 entries

Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #14 / 46
Number of attempts: 4

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #19 / 75
Number of attempts: 13

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 114 entries

Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #17 / 38
Number of attempts: 7

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #57 / 196
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #324 / 361
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #248 / 446
Number of attempts: 8

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: 17
Position: #36 / 75
Number of attempts: 3

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #126 / 480
Number of attempts: 8

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #327 / 446
Number of attempts: 4

Vertical Limit - 2551 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #182 / 756
Number of attempts: 5

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #43 / 230
Number of attempts: 7

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #222 / 778
Number of attempts: 7

Switch function arguments - 2140 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #325 / 664
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #254 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1000 / 1749
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #298 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #197 / 652
Number of attempts: 4

Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #64 / 216
Number of attempts: 6

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: 18
Position: #106 / 336
Number of attempts: 6

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #55 / 198
Number of attempts: 13

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #115 / 654
Number of attempts: 5

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: #186 / 407
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 2016 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #158 / 518
Number of attempts: 5

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: #520 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1361 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #389 / 531
Number of attempts: 4

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #30 / 141
Number of attempts: 12

Reformat a C golf submission - 612 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #144 / 209
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #12 / 236
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1591 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #312 / 593
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1477 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #378 / 575
Number of attempts: 2

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: 21
Position: #244 / 425
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 12971 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1907 / 3733
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7150 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 33
Position: #269 / 1753
Number of attempts: 7

Contributed Challenges

Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).