Played Challenges
Quicksort - 1838 entries
We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.
- Best score: 6
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #182 / 403
- Number of attempts: 4
EDN reformat - 1102 entries
The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #16 / 154
- Number of attempts: 6
Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 398 entries
Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 30
- Position: #24 / 82
- Number of attempts: 4
Populate 3D bone names list - 580 entries
Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #6 / 147
- Number of attempts: 4
Find fix point of cos - 1303 entries
Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 14
- Position: #33 / 381
- Number of attempts: 3
Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 444 entries
Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #17 / 106
- Number of attempts: 11
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 532 entries
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #134 / 294
- Number of attempts: 1
Easier Align - 381 entries
Align the columns of a markdown table
- Best score: 51
- Best player score: 73
- Position: #21 / 93
- Number of attempts: 3
Paste a column after a column - 2477 entries
This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #172 / 535
- Number of attempts: 4
Filter number combinations that don't add to 11 - 398 entries
Append the sum of each line to its end, alongside an equals sign, and remove any that do not sum to 11. The ordering of lines should stay the same. Note that the combinations are semi-arbitrary and not all 4-number combinations are present in the file.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #72 / 113
- Number of attempts: 1
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 706 entries
Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html
- Best score: 50
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #14 / 174
- Number of attempts: 7
HS exam question - 1539 entries
Convert the data to a python dictionary
- Best score: 47
- Best player score: 48
- Position: #38 / 410
- Number of attempts: 10
Reformat symbols in list - 1570 entries
Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #99 / 337
- Number of attempts: 6
Fizzbuzz - 556 entries
type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem
- Best score: 45
- Best player score: 66
- Position: #49 / 165
- Number of attempts: 2
Substraction (bis) - 584 entries
Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #18 / 111
- Number of attempts: 3
Changing around text with citations - 325 entries
Based off of something I saw on reddit
- Best score: 28
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #29 / 91
- Number of attempts: 7
Poorly indented Python comments - 1300 entries
Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #40 / 218
- Number of attempts: 9
Many duplicates - 1420 entries
Quick and easy
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #255 / 458
- Number of attempts: 1
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 642 entries
The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #45 / 153
- Number of attempts: 8
delete swap - 1754 entries
delete all swap
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #280 / 542
- Number of attempts: 3
Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1250 entries
Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #56 / 270
- Number of attempts: 5
Fix the shell script! - 2540 entries
Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #114 / 587
- Number of attempts: 7
Visual block training - 1069 entries
You see the input. You see the output. Go.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #38 / 203
- Number of attempts: 6
Innocent Monster - 217 entries
You have the tools, just create him!
- Best score: 60
- Best player score: 61
- Position: #8 / 49
- Number of attempts: 6
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1656 entries
Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #185 / 555
- Number of attempts: 2
Java to JavaScript - 267 entries
Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!
- Best score: 59
- Best player score: 60
- Position: #13 / 72
- Number of attempts: 4
Wikitext headings to markdown - 986 entries
Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #44 / 208
- Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 2481 entries
Simple number generation
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #288 / 702
- Number of attempts: 1
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 887 entries
Speak in tongues
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #107 / 269
- Number of attempts: 3
Fill in the chess board - 947 entries
Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #49 / 181
- Number of attempts: 3
Plotting some variables in python - 1660 entries
4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #85 / 347
- Number of attempts: 4
Transpose a python matrix - 871 entries
Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #37 / 137
- Number of attempts: 8
Create a diamond comment - 337 entries
Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #27 / 75
- Number of attempts: 3
Lowercase first characters - 486 entries
This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.
- Best score: 33
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #53 / 182
- Number of attempts: 1
Make list of numbers from 1 to 30 more compact, but more confusing - 107 entries
Change the naming logic of numbers to end up with less lines.
- Best score: 74
- Best player score: 77
- Position: #7 / 39
- Number of attempts: 4
Migrated to Postgres! - 323 entries
Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #95 / 126
- Number of attempts: 2
Increment number for every 10 lines - 229 entries
The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #24 / 63
- Number of attempts: 5
simple replacements - 1749 entries
The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #78 / 379
- Number of attempts: 2
Inverting Lines - 1879 entries
A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #202 / 507
- Number of attempts: 5
CSV to MD format - 413 entries
To convert a CSV list to Markdown list
- Best score: 36
- Best player score: 40
- Position: #31 / 94
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 42
- Position: #29 / 98
- Number of attempts: 1
Python dataclasses - 1127 entries
Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #59 / 283
- Number of attempts: 3
Count to 100 in word form - 138 entries
Write all the numbers from 1 to 100, using their word forms rather than the digit form. Most of the parts you will need are included in the input file. Use hyphens when appropriate.
- Best score: 53
- Best player score: 65
- Position: #12 / 29
- Number of attempts: 5
RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries
RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #54 / 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: 88
- Position: #9 / 53
- Number of attempts: 3
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 324 entries
Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Position: #162 / 201
- Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1386 entries
Modernise and clean up some C++ code.
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #97 / 318
- Number of attempts: 3
Staircase - 149 entries
Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #9 / 34
- Number of attempts: 6
Enumerate Bullets - 320 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: 20
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #49 / 84
- Number of attempts: 2
Put a cross in the square - 221 entries
Put a cross in the square
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #12 / 88
- Number of attempts: 3
swap number pairs - 2064 entries
Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #112 / 375
- Number of attempts: 4
HS Final exam vimgolf - 894 entries
Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #83 / 235
- Number of attempts: 2
Extend shell script - 134 entries
Just add some more stuff
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #19 / 45
- Number of attempts: 2
Easy modification of ssh config - 353 entries
Just add another alias to each worker
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #39 / 109
- Number of attempts: 1
ssh config skills - 256 entries
Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!
- Best score: 41
- Best player score: 43
- Position: #20 / 65
- Number of attempts: 5
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: 24
- Position: #29 / 56
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 49
- Position: #9 / 30
- Number of attempts: 5
Mr. Hacker - 89 entries
Elvin is hacker. He has piece of users database from some social net site. Recently he installed Vim, and he wants to convert CSV DB to specific format `key=value' where `key' is login and `value' is password, but password in DB is encrypted in ROT13. Help him.
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #15 / 35
- Number of attempts: 2
Python: Def to Lambda - 453 entries
LAMBDA!!!
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #84 / 155
- Number of attempts: 1
Turn the x - 326 entries
Turn the x to a +
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #37 / 81
- Number of attempts: 2
Format the CSS - 152 entries
You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!
- Best score: 41
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #5 / 47
- Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4450 entries
Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #466 / 1089
- Number of attempts: 4
Levenshtein distance - 105 entries
Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #25 / 37
- Number of attempts: 2
Satisfy the go linter - 2366 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: #150 / 467
- Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 950 entries
You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 9
- Position: #196 / 303
- Number of attempts: 1
Multiline to Single Line - 695 entries
Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #228 / 300
- Number of attempts: 1
Data reformat - 294 entries
Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv
- Best score: 36
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #20 / 65
- Number of attempts: 3
xrandr outputs and dashes - 700 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: #143 / 220
- Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 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: #59 / 169
- Number of attempts: 2
Capitalize the Names - 407 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: 21
- Position: #46 / 96
- Number of attempts: 5
Yo To Hello - 1127 entries
Simply Turn Yo To Hello
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #386 / 522
- Number of attempts: 1
C# function to F# - 30 entries
Converting from C# to F# is not hard, but requires some manual labor. Here you should convert a C# function using a C# class to a F# function using a C# class.
- Best score: 101
- Best player score: 101
- Position: #1 / 11
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 63
- Position: #5 / 18
- Number of attempts: 4
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1146 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: #88 / 229
- Number of attempts: 8
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 915 entries
Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #56 / 259
- Number of attempts: 2
Get mail address from outlook format - 642 entries
Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #82 / 202
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 17
- Position: #37 / 52
- Number of attempts: 4
Add text at some column - 171 entries
Complete golang struct statement.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #21 / 64
- Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6288 entries
Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #753 / 1532
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 20
- Position: #24 / 42
- Number of attempts: 2
Quote modules - 1072 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #39 / 279
- Number of attempts: 2
TAR archive pretty print - 31 entries
Will you use isk ?
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #9 / 13
- Number of attempts: 2
add line and index - 100 entries
a missed line and index names need to be added
- Best score: 44
- Best player score: 45
- Position: #7 / 29
- Number of attempts: 7
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: 31
- Position: #32 / 155
- Number of attempts: 4
Quote modules (ver.2) - 239 entries
Complete golang import statement.
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #27 / 60
- Number of attempts: 6
Separate the lines - 182 entries
Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.
- Best score: 11
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #58 / 92
- Number of attempts: 2
Unsemantic linewrapping - 918 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: #152 / 228
- Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2859 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #268 / 845
- Number of attempts: 2
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 323 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #32 / 71
- Number of attempts: 2
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1213 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: #119 / 248
- Number of attempts: 3
Swap the operands under comparison - 296 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #42 / 100
- Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10841 entries
Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #1768 / 3058
- Number of attempts: 1
Bad Copy Syntax - 2024 entries
Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #221 / 520
- Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries
easy stuff
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #851 / 1157
- Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3779 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
- Best score: 12
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #343 / 854
- Number of attempts: 3
My cafe needs a new menu - 31 entries
Help! My cafe needs a new menu and I've only got this plain-text file from the kitchen. In order to get it printed, I need to transform it into a markdown file with; headings for each type of item, prices on each menu item, dietary options and a key down the bottom.
- Best score: 126
- Best player score: 148
- Position: #4 / 8
- Number of attempts: 1
Extract wireshark capture filter - 213 entries
Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 26
- Position: #26 / 70
- Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7897 entries
Create a box around a line.
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #553 / 1872
- Number of attempts: 1
citizen_hacks_2019_part5 - 32 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #6 / 11
- Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_part6 - 30 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #4 / 12
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #39 / 47
- Number of attempts: 2
Triangular Numbers - 104 entries
Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #22 / 29
- Number of attempts: 2
Hash staircase - 56 entries
Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 21
- Position: #14 / 25
- Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 829 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #123 / 230
- Number of attempts: 4
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #197 / 380
- Number of attempts: 1
html paragraph to table - 606 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #56 / 126
- Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1503 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: 18
- Position: #267 / 455
- Number of attempts: 1
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries
Clean and group.
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #94 / 178
- Number of attempts: 2
Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries
Change the application output to comma-separated values
- Best score: 17
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #46 / 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: 23
- Position: #26 / 119
- Number of attempts: 1
Start coding format - 155 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #38 / 72
- Number of attempts: 2
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
- Best score: 30
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #40 / 129
- Number of attempts: 5
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: #136 / 166
- Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1114 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: #216 / 320
- Number of attempts: 1
Letterbox - 145 entries
Make a box!
- Best score: 35
- Best player score: 41
- Position: #8 / 28
- Number of attempts: 3
Flip the bit - 130 entries
Change the specific 0 to a 1.
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #38 / 74
- Number of attempts: 1
The D a n k Side of the Moon - 50 entries
You're making a vaporwave cover of The Dark Side of the Moon. So for the tracklisting, you want to: 1. Change the track names to v a p o r c a s e 2. Double the track lengths (since you're slowing them down). Well... let's just double the minutes.
- Best score: 40
- Best player score: 51
- Position: #13 / 17
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 38
- Position: #14 / 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: 35
- Position: #13 / 44
- Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1834 entries
The team names are misspelled.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #280 / 587
- Number of attempts: 2
Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries
Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 20
- Position: #57 / 60
- Number of attempts: 2
Todo list specification - 399 entries
The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 37
- Position: #96 / 179
- Number of attempts: 1
Subnetting - 131 entries
Split up the IP addresses in the right way.
- Best score: 29
- Best player score: 29
- Position: #14 / 39
- Number of attempts: 2
Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 49 entries
sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 31
- Position: #4 / 20
- Number of attempts: 3
Text to HTML Table - 180 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
- Best score: 52
- Best player score: 53
- Position: #28 / 53
- Number of attempts: 3
For all cases. - 160 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
- Best score: 8
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #87 / 105
- Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 261 entries
Rules, ... and don't forget !
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 8
- Position: #129 / 141
- Number of attempts: 1
Stairstep digits - 392 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #123 / 144
- Number of attempts: 1
Format java properties - 88 entries
Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #11 / 35
- Number of attempts: 1
Back to the roots - 61 entries
Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?
- Best score: 21
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #32 / 38
- Number of attempts: 1
Flatten repo - 29 entries
For each git repository (<project> tag) translate name attribute to flatten directory structure. Add path attribute if missing (because checkout hierarchy must be kept). #xml
- Best score: 43
- Best player score: 55
- Position: #8 / 11
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 18
- Position: #32 / 39
- Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 884 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: 15
- Position: #26 / 212
- Number of attempts: 2
Simple addition - 323 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: #78 / 120
- Number of attempts: 1
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries
How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #59 / 79
- Number of attempts: 1
create arrows in a list - 112 entries
Add arrow at same distance
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 10
- Position: #62 / 72
- Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 978 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
- Best score: 18
- Best player score: 18
- Position: #98 / 268
- Number of attempts: 2
sort python functions and methods alphabetically - 28 entries
* sort functions in the python file alphabetically * sort functions within a Class alphabetically * sort Classes alphabetically
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #10 / 15
- Number of attempts: 1
42-header - 43 entries
Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 23
- Position: #8 / 16
- Number of attempts: 2
Create a table - 332 entries
Convert the given input into a formatted table
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 17
- Position: #58 / 105
- Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 862 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
- Best score: 13
- Best player score: 13
- Position: #163 / 289
- Number of attempts: 2
Nesting SASS - 265 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
- Best score: 9
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #67 / 95
- 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: #132 / 140
- Number of attempts: 1
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 entries
Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #43 / 83
- Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1420 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #142 / 267
- Number of attempts: 6
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: 16
- Position: #18 / 44
- Number of attempts: 1
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: #35 / 76
- Number of attempts: 3
Order and join - 983 entries
There's something special about the input order.
- Best score: 10
- Best player score: 11
- Position: #142 / 259
- Number of attempts: 2
Change attribute to getter - 140 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 24
- Position: #33 / 59
- Number of attempts: 1
mp3 - Cutlist - 42 entries
An audio CD was accidentally ripped into one single mp3 file. A dummy cue-file now needs to be filled out with the correct values to get single mp3 files.
- Best score: 65
- Best player score: 65
- Position: #1 / 14
- Number of attempts: 1
Hello ${world} - 324 entries
Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #48 / 96
- Number of attempts: 1
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: 32
- Position: #13 / 46
- Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2209 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: #355 / 669
- Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 661 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: 14
- Position: #67 / 207
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 51
- Position: #12 / 24
- Number of attempts: 4
Line under headers - 2028 entries
Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.
- Best score: 24
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #52 / 499
- Number of attempts: 3
Build a six - 294 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
- Best score: 22
- Best player score: 22
- Position: #58 / 95
- Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1020 entries
Increment each number individually by one
- Best score: 15
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #85 / 247
- Number of attempts: 5
simple format (3) - 86 entries
reverse two column values!
- Best score: 34
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #11 / 24
- Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
- Position: #54 / 77
- Number of attempts: 1
Join 'em - 251 entries
This shouldn't be too tough
- Best score: 4
- Best player score: 4
- Position: #20 / 151
- Number of attempts: 1
snowflake fractal - 51 entries
From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal
- Best score: 26
- Best player score: 35
- Position: #12 / 20
- Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 810 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
- Best score: 5
- Best player score: 5
- Position: #255 / 389
- 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: #57 / 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: #92 / 161
- Number of attempts: 2
Label grid cells (6x6) - 53 entries
Label the cells of a grid with its coordinates. Rows are labelled top to bottom from A to F, and columns left to right from A to F. Each cell has a coordinate MN, where M is the row letter and N is the column letter.
- Best score: 31
- Best player score: 32
- Position: #6 / 20
- Number of attempts: 3
Remove quotes after first field - 380 entries
Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #33 / 91
- Number of attempts: 3
Put the months in order - 973 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
- Best score: 20
- Best player score: 34
- Position: #63 / 162
- Number of attempts: 6
Reorder the groups - 1176 entries
Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.
- Best score: 14
- Best player score: 15
- Position: #124 / 263
- Number of attempts: 1
Add Go XML to structure tags - 170 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
- Best score: 23
- Best player score: 25
- Position: #26 / 69
- Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 529 entries
had trouble with something similar
- Best score: 19
- Best player score: 19
- Position: #14 / 139
- Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2415 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
- Best score: 16
- Best player score: 16
- Position: #47 / 446
- Number of attempts: 1
unknown command - 166 entries
I want change 5 words
- Best score: 7
- Best player score: 7
- Position: #67 / 86
- Number of attempts: 1
Resort and deup a CSV list - 161 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: 46
- Position: #18 / 42
- Number of attempts: 2
Santa's naughty / nice list - 90 entries
Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.
- Best score: 39
- Best player score: 39
- Position: #6 / 26
- Number of attempts: 1
If-then-else regexp - 53 entries
Rules: - golf is never following golf - vim comes first! Drawing a finite-state machine diagram could help. #regexp
- Best score: 37
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #12 / 14
- Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_part9 - 32 entries
For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition
- Best score: 48
- Best player score: 49
- Position: #7 / 11
- Number of attempts: 3
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: 41
- Position: #33 / 57
- Number of attempts: 3
Array Transposition - 196 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
- Best score: 27
- Best player score: 28
- Position: #14 / 55
- Number of attempts: 6
Alphabet soup - 428 entries
Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way
- Best score: 25
- Best player score: 27
- Position: #59 / 107
- Number of attempts: 3
calculations - 312 entries
Complete these (weird) calculations.
- Best score: 38
- Best player score: 38
- Position: #17 / 68
- Number of attempts: 5
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