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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33722 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #2 / 7442
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1 / 1274
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

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

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: 15
Position: #1 / 65
Number of attempts: 5

Prime Numbers - 376 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #1 / 106
Number of attempts: 7

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: #2 / 92
Number of attempts: 1

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #1 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Palindrome numbers - 29 entries

For each number compute its associated palindrome. First number (first line) has been eaten! #prime

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #1 / 16
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #3 / 1897
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #1 / 635
Number of attempts: 2

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: 28
Position: #1 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 799 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #113 / 421
Number of attempts: 1

From argument to object - 1513 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #1 / 460
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #86 / 704
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2875 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #1 / 641
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #1 / 755
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: #1 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #160 / 1630
Number of attempts: 1

Across-Down Flip - 68 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #6 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #2 / 701
Number of attempts: 1

comment and uncomment code inline - 1124 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #5 / 323
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11483 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #2 / 4209
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: 34
Position: #1 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #17 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 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: 15
Position: #1 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #3 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

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: #1 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Text to HTML Table - 180 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 52
Position: #1 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 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: 40
Position: #20 / 382
Number of attempts: 2

Return the cow - 75 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 52
Position: #1 / 30
Number of attempts: 4

Extended Customer 2 - 49 entries

Format the chars

Best score: 47
Best player score: 47
Position: #1 / 21
Number of attempts: 1

For all cases. - 161 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #3 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 398 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #3 / 146
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: #5 / 35
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: #2 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 893 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #28 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

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: #2 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #4 / 1269
Number of attempts: 3

Simple addition - 331 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #5 / 123
Number of attempts: 1

Hidden Message - 93 entries

Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.

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

create arrows in a list - 117 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 987 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #1 / 271
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: 23
Position: #1 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 867 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: #3 / 292
Number of attempts: 1

Nesting SASS - 266 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #1 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #5 / 63
Number of attempts: 2

Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 40 entries

Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #1 / 16
Number of attempts: 3

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 181 entries

FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #9 / 53
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: #1 / 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: #4 / 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: 15
Position: #1 / 83
Number of attempts: 2

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: #1 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

underscore_to_camelCase - 173 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #1 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #3 / 81
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: #5 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #1 / 2138
Number of attempts: 1

Double and switch - 43 entries

Aaaanother case switcher

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #1 / 19
Number of attempts: 3

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #1 / 77
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: 19
Position: #1 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Free hyphen! - 169 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #1 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 690 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #9 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

Convert pasted text into Markdown - 32 entries

I often need to copy/paste text into Markdown files. The challenge here is to wrap the lines in a way that prefers breaks after periods, commas, or other logical demarcations. There should be no spaces at the beginning of a line.

Best score: 46
Best player score: 47
Position: #3 / 14
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #1 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

SQL to YAML - 52 entries

Should be easy with vim, or not?

Best score: 71
Best player score: 72
Position: #2 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

Lower cased and dashed strings - 49 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 59
Best player score: 60
Position: #3 / 20
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: 24
Position: #11 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

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: #7 / 81
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: 15
Position: #1 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1 / 260
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #2 / 167
Number of attempts: 1

Array of characters - 175 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #1 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #22 / 425
Number of attempts: 1

Mirrored text - 177 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #1 / 71
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 278 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #22 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

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: 11
Position: #1 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 320 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #1 / 118
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #3 / 118
Number of attempts: 1

Change attribute to getter - 140 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #3 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #1 / 184
Number of attempts: 1

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #1 / 128
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: #2 / 246
Number of attempts: 1

ascii-art diamond - 44 entries

Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 41
Position: #3 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Create bison tokens - 47 entries

Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words

Best score: 85
Best player score: 85
Position: #2 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #3 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Manual SQL - 160 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 52
Position: #7 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Maze path - 48 entries

Follow the given motions and mark your path with Xs. Attention: This maze is quite big (20x20), please set your terminal size to at least 82.

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

Hello ${world} - 324 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #1 / 96
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: #2 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #9 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 37 entries

Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!

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

Greek Letters - 68 entries

Starting with a list of Greek letters, create a cross-reference table showing all of the Greek alpha-beta. You'll likely need to use digraphs (:help digraphs). Note that while most digraphs can be entered with either character first, lowercase sigma has two digraphs -- s* AND *s! Good luck!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #1 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

Separating firstname & lastname - 138 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #1 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Add Go XML to structure tags - 172 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: 24
Position: #6 / 70
Number of attempts: 2

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #1 / 72
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: 22
Position: #1 / 43
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #51 / 449
Number of attempts: 2

Sierpinski's Triangle - 86 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #6 / 27
Number of attempts: 4

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: 19
Position: #1 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #4 / 269
Number of attempts: 1

No naked if allowed! - 39 entries

House style forbids naked condition statements, comments should start with a space character and be on their own line. Good luck!

Best score: 46
Best player score: 46
Position: #1 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 655 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1 / 256
Number of attempts: 1

Binary and Increment - 56 entries

Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #5 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #1 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

Cartesian product - 259 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #1 / 97
Number of attempts: 3

Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #1 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

Entries sort - 90 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #1 / 40
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #2 / 1191
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #10 / 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: 14
Position: #1 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

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

Land of the Lost - 81 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #2 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #11 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #4 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Interleave lines - 185 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #1 / 60
Number of attempts: 2

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #1 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1658 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #1 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 45 entries

For each line take 4th dirname of path. For example: "alsa-utils", "gawk-3.1.5", ... But! But if previous result is "files", take 3rd dirname instead. For example: "mktemp", "mklibs" ... If version is present in package name (dash is the separator character), take it. For example: "apt-0.9.9.4" prevails over "apt". And finally, use sort -u to get unique names!

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

remove all lines in first part - 211 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #1 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

Not enough Ps - 67 entries

Different type of code

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #2 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 82 entries

Here you need complete 2 tasks: 1. Remove all unwanted continuous blank lines and leave only 1 blank line between paragraphs. 2. Properly capitalize the sentences.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #1 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Fill visual area - 91 entries

Just have fun!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #1 / 38
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: 18
Position: #1 / 290
Number of attempts: 1

Line 'em up! - 421 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #1 / 114
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: #7 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #1 / 107
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: 28
Position: #1 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #7 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Remove hard line breaks - 74 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Custom McCarthy sequence - 44 entries

Generate the first one hundred and twenty numbers (starting with n=1). See here for some inspiration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthy_91_function

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #5 / 17
Number of attempts: 2

Conway sequence - 26 entries

Generate the the first fifteen numbers. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #1 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Greek column realign - 51 entries

Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #6 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

Winning streak - 135 entries

Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #1 / 51
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #1 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Config Sections - 53 entries

Section me!

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #1 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Refactoring useless Method away - 116 entries

Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement

Best score: 47
Best player score: 47
Position: #1 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #1 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #1 / 247
Number of attempts: 3

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: #10 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 42
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #7 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Simple Maths - 57 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #1 / 27
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #2 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

C to VimDict - 53 entries

Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #1 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

range(10) digit rotation - 38 entries

This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..

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

I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #2 / 4188
Number of attempts: 1

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #2 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #9 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 76 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #1 / 27
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: 17
Position: #1 / 110
Number of attempts: 3

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #1 / 62
Number of attempts: 4

Roman numerals - 81 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #4 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #2 / 1138
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #2 / 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: #1 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #4 / 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: #5 / 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: 13
Position: #5 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #3 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #2 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 139 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #1 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

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: 28
Position: #1 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

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: #1 / 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: 18
Position: #1 / 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: 13
Position: #1 / 103
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #1 / 300
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2024 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #2 / 586
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 713 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #9 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #4 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #1 / 102
Number of attempts: 2

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: 41
Position: #1 / 24
Number of attempts: 3

Piphilology - 146 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: 29
Position: #3 / 53
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #1 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

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: 13
Position: #2 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

Carriage return - 43 entries

I have some raw data from terminal output which uses carriege return for formatting. Carriage return sets the pointer to the first character on the line, and subsequent characters will overwrite what was there before. The challange is to simulate the terminal behaviour in vim. I'm kind of unsure if I should have skipped lines 9 and 15, since there might be some interesting solutions which are not that generic. Happy Golfing!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #1 / 21
Number of attempts: 1

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: 33
Position: #2 / 36
Number of attempts: 2

Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 88 entries

Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.

Best score: 102
Best player score: 102
Position: #1 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

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: 22
Position: #1 / 128
Number of attempts: 4

Split the words - 372 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: 18
Position: #1 / 112
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: 25
Position: #1 / 19
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1 / 3689
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #2 / 703
Number of attempts: 1

Under the cupola - 57 entries

Taking some liberty about the name and plot of the Stephen King's famous novel (and TV series) to make this challenge. Are you able to recreate graphically the key phrase of the story? (I think is gonna be hard!)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #1 / 19
Number of attempts: 1

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: 25
Position: #1 / 41
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: #3 / 117
Number of attempts: 4

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: 9
Position: #1 / 518
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #1 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3165 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #1 / 1079
Number of attempts: 1

Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 72 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #1 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

Recursive Cowsay - 64 entries

Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #1 / 19
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: 18
Position: #1 / 71
Number of attempts: 2

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: 33
Position: #1 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

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: 15
Position: #1 / 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: 25
Position: #1 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #26 / 3969
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: 27
Position: #5 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Assign list - 192 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #10 / 61
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: 50
Position: #1 / 51
Number of attempts: 4

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: #1 / 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: 16
Position: #7 / 304
Number of attempts: 2

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: 25
Position: #4 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 419 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #10 / 230
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: #1 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Fibonacci Triangles - 59 entries

Triangles

Best score: 40
Best player score: 40
Position: #1 / 22
Number of attempts: 2

Lookahead and Lookbehind - 70 entries

Look everywhere

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

Word frequency alignment - 291 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: #1 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

LaTeX to XML Math Delimiters - 48 entries

Vim is amazing when used to edit MediaWiki text, but typing "<math> . . . </math>" can be tiresome and frustrating if formulas are used often. LaTeX delimiters are so concise and even come in two flavors: "$ . . . $" for inline math and "\[ . . . \]" for centered formulas. The goal is to perform the following conversions: "$ . . . $" becomes "<math>. . .</math>" "\[ . . . \]" becomes "<center><math>. . .</math></center>"

Best score: 63
Best player score: 63
Position: #1 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #2 / 174
Number of attempts: 4

XML to JSON - 47 entries

Convert this xml file into json.

Best score: 75
Best player score: 75
Position: #1 / 20
Number of attempts: 7

Coordinates placeholder - 73 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #1 / 38
Number of attempts: 3

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: 62
Position: #1 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #4 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

REDRUM - 171 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: #3 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate words - 254 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #1 / 91
Number of attempts: 5

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: 51
Position: #1 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

Execute immediate SQL - 90 entries

Sql string tranformation ...

Best score: 58
Best player score: 60
Position: #2 / 32
Number of attempts: 3

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

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #1 / 46
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: 39
Position: #1 / 26
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: 23
Position: #2 / 54
Number of attempts: 4

Transposition - 99 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #1 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #1 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Groups magic - 161 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: #1 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #2 / 201
Number of attempts: 8

Refactor arguments into object argument - 166 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #1 / 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: 25
Position: #2 / 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: 15
Position: #1 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 297 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #9 / 226
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: #3 / 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: 24
Position: #9 / 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: 24
Position: #3 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

Dehamlizing - 185 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #2 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

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: 40
Position: #1 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

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: #2 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #1 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

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: 32
Position: #1 / 56
Number of attempts: 7

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: 17
Position: #1 / 67
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: 22
Position: #1 / 44
Number of attempts: 4

A simple change - 468 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #5 / 193
Number of attempts: 2

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: 43
Position: #8 / 31
Number of attempts: 2

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: 26
Position: #8 / 54
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 200 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: 25
Position: #8 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

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: 40
Position: #1 / 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: 26
Position: #1 / 18
Number of attempts: 10

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: 28
Position: #1 / 46
Number of attempts: 4

Tiny column alignment - 61 entries

Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #1 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 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: #13 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #2 / 361
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: 49
Position: #3 / 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: 20
Position: #3 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

lamb had a little Mary - 618 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #3 / 169
Number of attempts: 1

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: 8
Position: #8 / 446
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 115 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #3 / 47
Number of attempts: 2

Chucking wood - 135 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: 51
Position: #1 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

Stairs Indenting - 478 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #1 / 198
Number of attempts: 3

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: #2 / 75
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: 25
Position: #5 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

maximun and minimun - 73 entries

Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.

Best score: 50
Best player score: 51
Position: #4 / 26
Number of attempts: 3

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: 32
Position: #13 / 79
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: #1 / 480
Number of attempts: 6

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: 20
Position: #1 / 57
Number of attempts: 5

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: #17 / 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: #5 / 32
Number of attempts: 9

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #2 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

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: 25
Position: #4 / 113
Number of attempts: 4

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #8 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

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: 25
Position: #15 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Enharmonic Equivalents - 59 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #3 / 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: #2 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2551 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #1 / 756
Number of attempts: 2

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: #5 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 259 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: 16
Position: #1 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #1 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #135 / 778
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2140 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1 / 664
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1 / 419
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #18 / 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: 15
Position: #3 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

constructor - 182 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

Best score: 59
Best player score: 59
Position: #1 / 60
Number of attempts: 3

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #1 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

un-C-escape string - 58 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #22 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #105 / 1749
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #77 / 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: 35
Position: #1 / 40
Number of attempts: 4

Calculate the table totals - 146 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #3 / 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: 19
Position: #1 / 193
Number of attempts: 4

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #15 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 254 entries

Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.

Best score: 65
Best player score: 65
Position: #1 / 63
Number of attempts: 4

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #1 / 68
Number of attempts: 8

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #26 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

formatted text to markdown - 184 entries

You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.

Best score: 70
Best player score: 70
Position: #1 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #20 / 652
Number of attempts: 3

Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #1 / 216
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: 17
Position: #35 / 336
Number of attempts: 1

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 98 entries

Same class but reverse!

Best score: 79
Best player score: 80
Position: #2 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #6 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

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: #38 / 150
Number of attempts: 1

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: 23
Position: #1 / 74
Number of attempts: 3

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: #44 / 180
Number of attempts: 2

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: 20
Position: #1 / 69
Number of attempts: 3

Sort entries based on date - 392 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #31 / 117
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor to Helpers - 50 entries

This Rails partial is almost all template escapes. Put it into a helper, and refactor each case to methods so we can build out the controls for each. (I've converted to tabs - fighting with Vimgolf's default config shouldn't be part of the challenge.)

Best score: 147
Best player score: 147
Position: #1 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

Here, piggy, piggy... - 80 entries

Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...

Best score: 68
Best player score: 68
Position: #1 / 23
Number of attempts: 2

Happy New Year! - 145 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #1 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #32 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 287 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #6 / 101
Number of attempts: 3

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 230 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #9 / 99
Number of attempts: 4

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: #19 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Before there was Farmville... - 101 entries

There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?

Best score: 156
Best player score: 157
Position: #3 / 49
Number of attempts: 3

HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #3 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

expand a list comprehension (python) - 334 entries

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

Best score: 42
Best player score: 42
Position: #11 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat long lines - 361 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: #14 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #1 / 206
Number of attempts: 4

Overall Vimgolf Rank - 216 entries

Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #2 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 450 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #35 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #1 / 654
Number of attempts: 3

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 163 entries

Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #17 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Getters & Setters: Java - 211 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Best score: 89
Best player score: 91
Position: #4 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #10 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Java Array2List - 233 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 67
Position: #1 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 377 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #111 / 212
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #40 / 407
Number of attempts: 1

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 56
Position: #2 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #27 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2016 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1 / 518
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1057 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #271 / 667
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 321 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #1 / 88
Number of attempts: 4

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: 107
Position: #4 / 146
Number of attempts: 2

Table Reshuffle - 439 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #1 / 142
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and count - 480 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: 18
Position: #1 / 178
Number of attempts: 3

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: 23
Position: #3 / 76
Number of attempts: 3

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #24 / 90
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 634 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: #32 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1 / 460
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1 / 410
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #1 / 165
Number of attempts: 7

Indentation - 550 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #2 / 180
Number of attempts: 3

Hatsuyume - 540 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #2 / 187
Number of attempts: 4

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: 98
Position: #2 / 101
Number of attempts: 3

Dumb to smart - 100 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #3 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1361 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #124 / 531
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Haiku - 313 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: 29
Position: #6 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 585 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: #70 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Remove Accent off the Letter - 137 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 43
Position: #4 / 52
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #1 / 141
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 506 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #86 / 247
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: #86 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1059 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #63 / 345
Number of attempts: 1

Linear congruential generator - 142 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #1 / 53
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat some Python - 622 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #24 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 612 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #6 / 209
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 776 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: 12
Position: #1 / 267
Number of attempts: 2

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 217 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: 23
Position: #3 / 68
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat most common surnames - 743 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #1 / 215
Number of attempts: 3

Remember FizzBuzz? - 738 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #1 / 193
Number of attempts: 7

Get rid of html tags - 407 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #2 / 236
Number of attempts: 6

Change the content of a string - 1591 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #75 / 593
Number of attempts: 1

Deleting folded text - 386 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: #18 / 121
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1477 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #106 / 575
Number of attempts: 1

Add fold markers to a .c file - 660 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: #20 / 189
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1589 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #52 / 425
Number of attempts: 1

Braces or Brackets? - 1054 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #3 / 324
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3742 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #79 / 803
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1325 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #1 / 346
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 12971 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #77 / 3733
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7150 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 33
Position: #215 / 1753
Number of attempts: 2

Contributed Challenges

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Counting in binary - 526 entries

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

Flip the chessboard - 95 entries

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

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Word frequency alignment - 291 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...

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?

Chucking wood - 135 entries

lamb had a little Mary - 618 entries

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

Printable ASCII characters - 142 entries

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

Checkerboard case pattern - 164 entries

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

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.

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...

Sort by your own sum - 86 entries

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

Circle in a square - 152 entries

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

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

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

It's a factor - 104 entries

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

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Number an outline - 280 entries

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

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 348 entries

attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

Split the words - 372 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.

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.

Don't know what this is - 2024 entries

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

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

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.

Winding path - 122 entries

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

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Suffix sort - 270 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Roman numerals - 81 entries

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

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Winning streak - 135 entries

Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.

Shuffled numbers - 246 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Space out the alphabet - 1658 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

O Christmas Tree - 109 entries

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

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

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.

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

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

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Free hyphen! - 169 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Stairstep digits - 398 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Acute accents - 33 entries

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

Just the middle - 11483 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Across-Down Flip - 68 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

Copy three lines - 2875 entries

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

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

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What ARE those things in the llama's ears?

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 - 33722 entries

Swap values - 4643 entries

One number per line - 18755 entries

Wget failed to download redirections - 202 entries

Prime Numbers - 376 entries

Separate the lines - 182 entries

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

Palindrome numbers - 29 entries

V to the i - 4813 entries

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

Word Blender - 148 entries

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 799 entries

From argument to object - 1513 entries

Every other line - 2915 entries

Copy three lines - 2875 entries

Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

Start coding format - 155 entries

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

Across-Down Flip - 68 entries

That hyphen - 2595 entries

comment and uncomment code inline - 1124 entries

Just the middle - 11483 entries

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 110 entries

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 entries

Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries

Todo list specification - 399 entries

Text to HTML Table - 180 entries

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 entries

Return the cow - 75 entries

Extended Customer 2 - 49 entries

For all cases. - 161 entries

Stairstep digits - 398 entries

Format java properties - 88 entries

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

Missing Library and a Typo - 893 entries

Acute accents - 33 entries

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Simple addition - 331 entries

Hidden Message - 93 entries

create arrows in a list - 117 entries

Adam's challenge - 987 entries

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

Create a table - 332 entries

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 867 entries

Nesting SASS - 266 entries

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 entries

Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 40 entries

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 181 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

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

underscore_to_camelCase - 173 entries

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

JSON string rotation - 64 entries

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Double and switch - 43 entries

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

7th Birthday - 202 entries

Free hyphen! - 169 entries

C Reformatting - 690 entries

Convert pasted text into Markdown - 32 entries

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

SQL to YAML - 52 entries

Lower cased and dashed strings - 49 entries

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

Sorting a glossary - 131 entries

Sort files from hosts - 188 entries

Order and join - 985 entries

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Array of characters - 175 entries

comments galore - 1048 entries

Mirrored text - 177 entries

lipsum lines - 278 entries

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

Angular naming conventions - 320 entries