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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33609 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: 22
Position: #110 / 7415
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #531 / 1268
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18712 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1042 / 3859
Number of attempts: 6

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: #23 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #6 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4799 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #11 / 1892
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 754 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #162 / 407
Number of attempts: 1

From argument to object - 1505 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: #168 / 457
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2355 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #274 / 752
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #195 / 1621
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #7 / 701
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11446 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #5 / 4194
Number of attempts: 2

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: 36
Position: #14 / 44
Number of attempts: 3

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: #2 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 887 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: 17
Position: #104 / 213
Number of attempts: 2

Acute accents - 33 entries

Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #4 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #539 / 1264
Number of attempts: 2

Simple addition - 326 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: #2 / 122
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: 26
Position: #33 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

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: #6 / 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: #2 / 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: #31 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

JSON string rotation - 64 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #1 / 22
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #629 / 2125
Number of attempts: 2

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #32 / 65
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #6 / 424
Number of attempts: 2

Mirrored text - 177 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #23 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #32 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #78 / 184
Number of attempts: 3

Align commas - 1092 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: 17
Position: #151 / 245
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #6 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #31 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 643 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #33 / 253
Number of attempts: 2

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #70 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #28 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

Rail fence transposition cipher - 84 entries

Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #13 / 26
Number of attempts: 3

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #16 / 152
Number of attempts: 2

Not enough Ps - 67 entries

Different type of code

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #3 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #180 / 290
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: #1 / 96
Number of attempts: 3

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: 24
Position: #12 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

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: #67 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

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: 20
Position: #12 / 55
Number of attempts: 2

Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #14 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #34 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Simple Maths - 57 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 33
Position: #9 / 27
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 426 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #4 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15977 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1429 / 4177
Number of attempts: 1

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #4 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #12 / 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: 21
Position: #13 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #21 / 62
Number of attempts: 3

Roman numerals - 81 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #16 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #316 / 1137
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #61 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

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: 21
Position: #15 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #6 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

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: #33 / 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: 14
Position: #62 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #52 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #28 / 271
Number of attempts: 2

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: 29
Position: #15 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

Comparing scores - 112 entries

If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #19 / 35
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #23 / 300
Number of attempts: 5

Don't know what this is - 2020 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: #155 / 584
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: 28
Position: #52 / 208
Number of attempts: 4

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #21 / 437
Number of attempts: 2

Piphilology - 144 entries

Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

Best score: 28
Best player score: 38
Position: #25 / 52
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #96 / 250
Number of attempts: 3

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: 14
Position: #28 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 88 entries

We did this a VimGolf challenge at work and now that we have finished I want to see if you guys can come up with something even better than we could. Our best solution was 44 keystrokes.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 50
Position: #20 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 350 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: 28
Position: #26 / 127
Number of attempts: 2

Split the words - 363 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: 30
Position: #31 / 110
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10658 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1656 / 3680
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3511 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #281 / 698
Number of attempts: 4

Ninjas Leaderboard - 99 entries

The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #18 / 41
Number of attempts: 1

Counting in binary - 526 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 37
Position: #66 / 117
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #184 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

Untangle my tail, please! - 60 entries

You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #12 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: #514 / 1078
Number of attempts: 3

Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 72 entries

Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 27
Position: #23 / 30
Number of attempts: 1

Change The Perspective - 38 entries

This is a go game recodes file(.sgf file, refer to http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/). It base on such a coordinate system: in vertical direction, is from top(farthest end) to bottom, mark as a,b,c,...，s(19*19 board); in horizontal direction, is from left to right, uses the same notations. For Example, the coordinate notation 'cq', is the position at the bottom-left corner(vertical coordinate first). The record is from one player's perspective. We need to change to another's, but we don't want to change coordinate system, let it keep top to bottom and left to right. so we have to change the coordinates, a <-> s, b <-> r,c <-> q, etc. the Position 'cq', as transformation, it will be 'qd'.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #7 / 23
Number of attempts: 3

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: #62 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Number an outline - 280 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #16 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12929 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #440 / 3961
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: 27
Position: #7 / 136
Number of attempts: 2

Draw the Go board - 149 entries

which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))

Best score: 50
Best player score: 56
Position: #8 / 51
Number of attempts: 3

paste indent correction - JS - 112 entries

You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #3 / 59
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: 17
Position: #98 / 304
Number of attempts: 4

Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #1 / 229
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: 22
Position: #29 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Fibonacci Triangles - 59 entries

Triangles

Best score: 40
Best player score: 41
Position: #5 / 22
Number of attempts: 5

Lookahead and Lookbehind - 70 entries

Look everywhere

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #16 / 31
Number of attempts: 2

Word frequency alignment - 290 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: #45 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Coordinates placeholder - 73 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #13 / 38
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: 82
Position: #26 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #29 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

REDRUM - 164 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: 15
Position: #27 / 64
Number of attempts: 3

Enumerate words - 254 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #21 / 91
Number of attempts: 3

199 Fibonacci Numbers - 41 entries

Generate 199 Fibonacci Numbers using, if you like, the function S(x,y), a vimscript to sum two big numbers in reverse order.

Best score: 51
Best player score: 103
Position: #17 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 93 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: 20
Position: #17 / 42
Number of attempts: 3

Circle in a square - 152 entries

Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 51
Position: #34 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #36 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Groups magic - 158 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: 13
Position: #12 / 93
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 629 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #55 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor arguments into object argument - 166 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 69
Position: #38 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

abcd > a b c d - 291 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #72 / 222
Number of attempts: 1

Checkerboard case pattern - 164 entries

All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #12 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

Printable ASCII characters - 142 entries

From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 38
Position: #26 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #97 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 599 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 34
Position: #71 / 166
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: 20
Position: #27 / 480
Number of attempts: 4

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #191 / 445
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #248 / 777
Number of attempts: 2

Switch function arguments - 2130 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #232 / 661
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #239 / 652
Number of attempts: 3

Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 30
Position: #35 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

The holy-grail may help - 362 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #135 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 757 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: 13
Position: #65 / 263
Number of attempts: 3

Get rid of html tags - 394 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #83 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1567 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #406 / 585
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting folded text - 350 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: #36 / 116
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1436 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #335 / 559
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1487 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #204 / 409
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3614 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #444 / 780
Number of attempts: 2

Flodder-challenge - 1245 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 30
Position: #85 / 333
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12744 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #125 / 3681
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6937 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #50 / 1699
Number of attempts: 8

Contributed Challenges

vim1001 - 307 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Kai Yuan
Twitter: @kentyuan

https://t.co/SjTz08CERj http://t.co/0Tb9d4PuIe

Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33609 entries

Swap values - 4616 entries

One number per line - 18712 entries

Wget failed to download redirections - 202 entries

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

V to the i - 4799 entries

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 754 entries

From argument to object - 1505 entries

Extract argument from function - 2355 entries

Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

That hyphen - 2595 entries

Just the middle - 11446 entries

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 110 entries

Todo list specification - 399 entries

Missing Library and a Typo - 887 entries

Acute accents - 33 entries

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Simple addition - 326 entries

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

Combines all items - 313 entries

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 entries

JSON string rotation - 64 entries

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

comments galore - 1045 entries

Mirrored text - 177 entries

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Align commas - 1092 entries

ASCII Art - 87 entries

Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries

Swap assigned value - 643 entries

From A to B - 591 entries

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Rail fence transposition cipher - 84 entries

readability - 327 entries

Not enough Ps - 67 entries

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

Shuffled numbers - 246 entries

Test everything! - 186 entries

Condensed Cases - 804 entries

increment by column in XML - 152 entries

Square numbers - 123 entries

Pretty format for variable declarations - 170 entries

Simple Maths - 57 entries

Happy TvvO - 426 entries

I forgot quotes - 15977 entries

Shift down - 209 entries

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

vim1001 - 307 entries

Subtraction - 180 entries

Roman numerals - 81 entries

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Suffix sort - 270 entries

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Change name of a variable - 179 entries

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Gray area - 747 entries

Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

Comparing scores - 112 entries

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Don't know what this is - 2020 entries

Two become one - 713 entries

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Piphilology - 144 entries

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Shuffle puzzle - 346 entries

HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 88 entries

Going underground.... - 350 entries

Split the words - 363 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10658 entries

attr_aligner - 3511 entries

Ninjas Leaderboard - 99 entries

Counting in binary - 526 entries

Kai Yuan
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