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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: #518 / 7420
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #442 / 1268
Number of attempts: 1

TAR archive pretty print - 31 entries

Will you use isk ?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #1 / 13
Number of attempts: 1

Prime Numbers - 374 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 37
Position: #12 / 105
Number of attempts: 14

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #9 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #112 / 579
Number of attempts: 1

Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #1 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #188 / 634
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #102 / 1162
Number of attempts: 1

Word Blender - 148 entries

The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?

Best score: 28
Best player score: 35
Position: #26 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 766 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #118 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

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: 19
Position: #1 / 380
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #157 / 703
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #199 / 640
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: 22
Position: #2 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #164 / 1624
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2563 / 4197
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 659 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #121 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Subnetting - 131 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #5 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 entries

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

Best score: 39
Best player score: 41
Position: #52 / 380
Number of attempts: 1

Return the cow - 75 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 56
Position: #9 / 30
Number of attempts: 3

Long prime list - filter version - 34 entries

I've used the maximum input/diff/output size allowed by vimgolf to get a list of integers up to 1460 separated by newlines, and your goal is to only keep the lines containing primes. There are 232 of them I hope some of you will golf vimscript itself to create some function to run as a primality check for each line, which is a good exercise if you haven't done much vimscript yet! You're invited to also try copy-pasting and doing other non-smart text manipulation. Even more interesting would be to see a solution that uses text manipulation to do the filtering! Whether you use vimscript, normal-mode primality checks, or text manipulation, as long as the end result is valid, your answer will be valid! Let's see which method does better here. Best of luck!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #5 / 10
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #33 / 1264
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: #37 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

42-header - 43 entries

Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #1 / 16
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #2 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #200 / 2128
Number of attempts: 1

7th Birthday - 202 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #22 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #2 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting a glossary - 131 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #45 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #85 / 259
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1095 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #35 / 246
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #6 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2219 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: #26 / 672
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 812 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #73 / 391
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #7 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Put the months in order - 974 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #40 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 534 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #36 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

O Christmas Tree - 109 entries

Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #11 / 43
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #195 / 448
Number of attempts: 1

Sierpinski's Triangle - 86 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 29
Position: #10 / 27
Number of attempts: 5

Swap assigned value - 647 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #3 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

Cartesian product - 255 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #46 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #30 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #325 / 1190
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #58 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #51 / 281
Number of attempts: 1

Not enough Ps - 67 entries

Different type of code

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #17 / 36
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: #31 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

50 factorials mod 97 - 58 entries

List 1! to 50!, but give your answer mod 97.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #9 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 42
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: #91 / 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: #16 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #20 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Roman numerals - 81 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #2 / 29
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #318 / 1137
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #91 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

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: 19
Position: #2 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #26 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #3 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #10 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Winding path - 122 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #3 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #6 / 35
Number of attempts: 1

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #39 / 103
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #75 / 300
Number of attempts: 3

Don't know what this is - 2022 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #244 / 585
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #259 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #3 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Five Pillars - 63 entries

Arrange all words in a table with 5 columns. The minimal space between words in columns is 2 spaces. Columns do have varying width.

Best score: 41
Best player score: 43
Position: #4 / 24
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: 30
Position: #11 / 52
Number of attempts: 2

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: #26 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 356 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #12 / 128
Number of attempts: 1

Permutations N=4 - 61 entries

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

Best score: 25
Best player score: 27
Position: #7 / 19
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1616 / 3683
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #8 / 702
Number of attempts: 2

Counting in binary - 526 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 117
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #192 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

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: 14
Position: #35 / 1078
Number of attempts: 1

Top X - 212 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #20 / 71
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #43 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1232 / 3963
Number of attempts: 1

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: 28
Position: #36 / 136
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: #105 / 304
Number of attempts: 1

It's a factor - 104 entries

Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #11 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #70 / 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: 21
Position: #9 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Fibonacci Triangles - 59 entries

Triangles

Best score: 40
Best player score: 42
Position: #7 / 22
Number of attempts: 2

Lookahead and Lookbehind - 70 entries

Look everywhere

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #9 / 31
Number of attempts: 1

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: #2 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #48 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Coordinates placeholder - 73 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #9 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #12 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

REDRUM - 166 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: 14
Position: #4 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate words - 254 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #8 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

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: 56
Position: #6 / 18
Number of attempts: 2

Execute immediate SQL - 90 entries

Sql string tranformation ...

Best score: 58
Best player score: 63
Position: #5 / 32
Number of attempts: 4

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 95 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: 15
Position: #2 / 43
Number of attempts: 1

Chinese Multiplication Table - 81 entries

Print a Chinese multiplication table in Vim. In China, every kid is asked to memorize this table. And thanks to the mono-syllabism of Chinese characters, it is not that hard. Printing the multiplication table is also a good exercise for programming beginners. For-loop, escaped characters, etc... There should be some special ways to print it in Vim.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 49
Position: #7 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

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: 28
Position: #17 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

Transposition - 99 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 33
Position: #4 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #20 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

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: #2 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #1 / 201
Number of attempts: 4

Refactor arguments into object argument - 166 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 52
Position: #9 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

Sort by your own sum - 86 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 34
Position: #18 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 67 entries

The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #14 / 39
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: #13 / 222
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Lots of function arguments - 119 entries

The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 13
Position: #8 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Readable Rubyhash - 267 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #20 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

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: #15 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 185 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #1 / 72
Number of attempts: 4

Changing URL path in CSS - 138 entries

What's the quickest way to swap out all the URLs in a CSS file? Is it wasted keystrokes using look-behinds and look-aheads? (I'm sorry for the delete/report--I made a mistake with the last one requiring an ugly search for graphic to replace with images. I just intended this to be a simple search and replace that might possibly generate some macros or normals solutions that are quicker)

Best score: 40
Best player score: 42
Position: #23 / 62
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: 15
Position: #1 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #61 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

Create a pandoc compatible table - 214 entries

In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/

Best score: 32
Best player score: 37
Position: #23 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffle and Sort - 229 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #16 / 67
Number of attempts: 8

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: 32
Position: #15 / 44
Number of attempts: 2

A simple change - 461 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #2 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

Add links to an existing HTML table - 97 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Best score: 42
Best player score: 46
Position: #12 / 31
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 159 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #1 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 193 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #26 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

Presidential Sorting - 51 entries

Given a nice CSV formatted arrangement of the Presidents of the United States, we need to print out an alphabetical list in pretty columns. Prove that vim can conquer this basic Excel task!

Best score: 40
Best player score: 41
Position: #4 / 26
Number of attempts: 3

Convert regular pandoc footnotes to in-line notes - 64 entries

Pandoc extends markdown by allowing footnotes, which are usually represented with a footnote identifier followed later in the document by the footnote itself. But Pandoc also allows inline footnotes without identifiers. How many strokes does it take to convert regular footnotes to inline notes? (NB: I've had trouble figuring out whether text-width makes a difference to Vimgolf in comparing the input and output file. I finally tested this locally using the Vimgolf vimrc and did a "gq" on the entire buffer as the last step. Apologies if I'm making a newbie mistake. First time submitter.)

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #7 / 18
Number of attempts: 4

Extract text from xml - 127 entries

Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 31
Position: #11 / 46
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 420 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #16 / 192
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: #3 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

Complete the circuit grid! - 105 entries

Continuing from the last challenge, add additional rows to the grid. Change each of the names from 'A1'...'A10' to 'B1'...'B10', 'C1'...'C10', etc, and for each new row add 0.7 to the X values in the (X Y) at the end of each line.

Best score: 46
Best player score: 51
Position: #7 / 30
Number of attempts: 7

SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 90 entries

Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #11 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

lamb had a little Mary - 609 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 168
Number of attempts: 4

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: #138 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 115 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #19 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

Chucking wood - 129 entries

An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)

Best score: 51
Best player score: 53
Position: #7 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #35 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #4 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Array Transposition - 201 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 29
Position: #16 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Python to Ruby - 204 entries

Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #13 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

maximun and minimun - 73 entries

Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.

Best score: 50
Best player score: 53
Position: #11 / 26
Number of attempts: 2

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 203 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 38
Position: #32 / 79
Number of attempts: 2

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: 25
Position: #136 / 480
Number of attempts: 4

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 166 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #14 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 101 entries

A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #8 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Create an alphabet diamond - 105 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 40
Position: #4 / 32
Number of attempts: 5

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1 / 445
Number of attempts: 2

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 28
Position: #44 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #27 / 75
Number of attempts: 5

Inconsistent real estate paste - 216 entries

Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #23 / 58
Number of attempts: 3

Enharmonic Equivalents - 59 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #1 / 37
Number of attempts: 1

Flip the chessboard - 95 entries

White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #1 / 32
Number of attempts: 6

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #187 / 754
Number of attempts: 1

Make the circuit grid! - 101 entries

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

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

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 247 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #48 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #26 / 230
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #427 / 777
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #202 / 663
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #267 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #113 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #153 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

constructor - 182 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

Best score: 59
Best player score: 82
Position: #19 / 60
Number of attempts: 4

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #13 / 263
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #723 / 1748
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #63 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Format the output - 146 entries

Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.

Best score: 35
Best player score: 40
Position: #12 / 40
Number of attempts: 9

Calculate the table totals - 146 entries

Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 49
Position: #22 / 45
Number of attempts: 3

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #16 / 193
Number of attempts: 4

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #43 / 151
Number of attempts: 4

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 42
Position: #8 / 68
Number of attempts: 12

Sort the cardinal numbers - 310 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #63 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #237 / 650
Number of attempts: 1

Line Zipper - 473 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #47 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #95 / 336
Number of attempts: 6

Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #51 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #37 / 150
Number of attempts: 2

Complete the hex array data - 197 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #9 / 74
Number of attempts: 4

Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #45 / 180
Number of attempts: 4

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 166 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #30 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

Sort entries based on date - 392 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #73 / 117
Number of attempts: 3

Happy New Year! - 145 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #7 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #63 / 198
Number of attempts: 5

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 280 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #7 / 100
Number of attempts: 3

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 224 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #25 / 98
Number of attempts: 2

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #20 / 166
Number of attempts: 4

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #2 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

expand a list comprehension (python) - 333 entries

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

Best score: 42
Best player score: 47
Position: #34 / 109
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat long lines - 358 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #17 / 134
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #124 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 439 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #34 / 147
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #234 / 652
Number of attempts: 2

Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 29
Position: #14 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Java Array2List - 233 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 76
Position: #8 / 87
Number of attempts: 7

The holy-grail may help - 366 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #113 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1244 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: 12
Position: #42 / 406
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 883 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #28 / 220
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 1999 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: 13
Position: #193 / 516
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1050 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: #277 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 321 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #11 / 88
Number of attempts: 3

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 111
Position: #17 / 146
Number of attempts: 4

Table Reshuffle - 429 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #42 / 139
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse and count - 473 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #72 / 176
Number of attempts: 2

Letters are numbers - 167 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #40 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #60 / 90
Number of attempts: 3

Ruby 1.9 compat - 629 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #33 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #264 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 688 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #233 / 408
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 534 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #14 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 542 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 27
Position: #81 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 532 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #32 / 186
Number of attempts: 1

Turn this csv list into queries - 252 entries

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

Best score: 98
Best player score: 103
Position: #15 / 101
Number of attempts: 4

The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #341 / 527
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the Haiku - 308 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 37
Position: #34 / 113
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 577 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #71 / 246
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #62 / 141
Number of attempts: 2

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 498 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #87 / 245
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #88 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1052 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #174 / 344
Number of attempts: 3

Linear congruential generator - 142 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #21 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 609 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #22 / 236
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat a C golf submission - 604 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: 26
Position: #40 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 771 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: #48 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 210 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #11 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 717 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #75 / 210
Number of attempts: 3

Remember FizzBuzz? - 725 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 48
Position: #30 / 190
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1580 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #176 / 588
Number of attempts: 3

Deleting folded text - 360 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: 18
Position: #12 / 117
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1451 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #108 / 563
Number of attempts: 1

Add fold markers to a .c file - 625 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #22 / 183
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1507 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: #193 / 412
Number of attempts: 1

Braces or Brackets? - 1015 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 37
Position: #61 / 315
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3665 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 787
Number of attempts: 3

Flodder-challenge - 1262 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #57 / 335
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #966 / 3694
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #24 / 1706
Number of attempts: 4