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Evil Numbers - 82 entries

Print the first 100 evil numbers https://oeis.org/A001969. This is an advert for code.golf https://code.golf/evil-numbers#viml

Best score: 25
Best player score: 49
Position: #8 / 23
Number of attempts: 4

Find anomalies - 148 entries

There is one special character per line

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #19 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

Coordinate extraction - 55 entries

Get the coordinates of all "M"s from the Vim logo

Best score: 43
Best player score: 50
Position: #8 / 16
Number of attempts: 2

Morse - 148 entries

Translate Morse code to Text

Best score: 31
Best player score: 33
Position: #8 / 33
Number of attempts: 5

New teacher - 923 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #45 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

Replace word while reserving first letter case - 604 entries

Window -> Door window -> door Windows -> Windows windows -> windows

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #29 / 118
Number of attempts: 2

months to html list items - 1010 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #101 / 274
Number of attempts: 2

Quicksort - 1962 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #2 / 431
Number of attempts: 6

EDN reformat - 1158 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #14 / 164
Number of attempts: 2

Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 396 entries

Your mission is to efficiently convert the original Tic-Tac-Toe grid, represented by 'x's and 'o's, into a neat and well-organized game board.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 75
Position: #24 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Pick and sort servers from mirror list - 431 entries

Retrieve the primary server for each country from a mirror list file and organize them alphabetically by country name. Given a mirror list file containing server information for various countries, the objective is to extract the primary server from each country and then arrange these servers in alphabetical order based on the respective country names.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #6 / 87
Number of attempts: 4

Populate 3D bone names list - 629 entries

Ran into this at work, excited to see how this gets optimized

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #8 / 162
Number of attempts: 4

Remove line numbers - 736 entries

From http://web.archive.org/web/20140831121704/http://dirac.org/linux/gdb/02a-Memory_Layout_And_The_Stack.php#investigatingthestackwithgdb.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #5 / 198
Number of attempts: 2

Find fix point of cos - 1402 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #102 / 415
Number of attempts: 2

Insert column data on Confluence-style table - 458 entries

Add ip addresses into new "IP" column based on the last digits from the "Server" column

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #30 / 109
Number of attempts: 2

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 554 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #37 / 309
Number of attempts: 1

Easier Align - 406 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

Best score: 51
Best player score: 88
Position: #26 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 734 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

Best score: 50
Best player score: 57
Position: #65 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat symbols in list - 1621 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #115 / 348
Number of attempts: 2

Fizzbuzz - 573 entries

type the first 100 lines of the fizzbuzz problem

Best score: 45
Best player score: 48
Position: #21 / 168
Number of attempts: 4

Substraction (bis) - 603 entries

Solve the equations (adapted from the original @Caek_'s challenge).

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #41 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

Changing around text with citations - 329 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #1 / 93
Number of attempts: 2

Poorly indented Python comments - 1315 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #75 / 221
Number of attempts: 4

Many duplicates - 1445 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #49 / 468
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 647 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 42
Position: #60 / 154
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1786 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #8 / 555
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 37
Position: #85 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #3 / 589
Number of attempts: 7

Visual block training - 1070 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #57 / 204
Number of attempts: 4

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1657 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #248 / 556
Number of attempts: 1

Wikitext headings to markdown - 987 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #3 / 209
Number of attempts: 2

hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #1 / 708
Number of attempts: 1

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 290 entries

Who even sorted this?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #1 / 66
Number of attempts: 2

Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #5 / 185
Number of attempts: 5

Learn to ask for :help - 587 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #5 / 130
Number of attempts: 7

Plotting some variables in python - 1661 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #5 / 348
Number of attempts: 3

Transpose a python matrix - 873 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #4 / 138
Number of attempts: 5

Create a diamond comment - 337 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #17 / 75
Number of attempts: 5

Lowercase first characters - 487 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #38 / 183
Number of attempts: 3

Migrated to Postgres! - 331 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #14 / 131
Number of attempts: 1

Increment number for every 10 lines - 230 entries

The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of 4th column

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #10 / 64
Number of attempts: 2

simple replacements - 1753 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #4 / 380
Number of attempts: 2

Inverting Lines - 1900 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #14 / 511
Number of attempts: 3

CSV to MD format - 413 entries

To convert a CSV list to Markdown list

Best score: 36
Best player score: 40
Position: #17 / 94
Number of attempts: 4

Generate a very basic Python constructor - 316 entries

I actually needed to do this myself, so I look forward to learning how.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 47
Position: #41 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Python dataclasses - 1136 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #5 / 284
Number of attempts: 1

Count to 100 in word form - 138 entries

Write all the numbers from 1 to 100, using their word forms rather than the digit form. Most of the parts you will need are included in the input file. Use hyphens when appropriate.

Best score: 53
Best player score: 77
Position: #17 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #55 / 100
Number of attempts: 2

RUST match with enum for Coin - 183 entries

RUST match with enum for Coin rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 84
Best player score: 93
Position: #13 / 53
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 328 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #3 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1400 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #3 / 323
Number of attempts: 2

Staircase - 149 entries

Going downstairs, while singing the alphabet song. Some vb practice to us all. Would it be much easier to make it go from left to right instead?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 34
Position: #18 / 34
Number of attempts: 1

Enumerate Bullets - 323 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #1 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

Put a cross in the square - 225 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #42 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

swap number pairs - 2103 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #62 / 380
Number of attempts: 5

HS Final exam vimgolf - 897 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #42 / 236
Number of attempts: 3

Extend shell script - 134 entries

Just add some more stuff

Best score: 37
Best player score: 39
Position: #12 / 45
Number of attempts: 2

Easy modification of ssh config - 371 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #3 / 112
Number of attempts: 3

ssh config skills - 258 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 44
Position: #21 / 66
Number of attempts: 3

Change double quotes to single quotes, but with a twist - 309 entries

Although this challenge is in the context of a Python function, you don't need to know Python to do this challenge. It is to add contexts and interesting constraints. The file contains a function that prints a multi-line string literal. I wrote the string literal with double quotes, but then I decided to use single quotes instead, and that's your challenge. However, interestingly enough, the string itself contains single and double quotes. This means, inside the string literal, the originally escaped double quotes no longer need to be escaped, but the single quotes now need to be escaped. Note that the triple double quotes in the docstring should be left alone.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #30 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

Mr. Hacker - 89 entries

Elvin is hacker. He has piece of users database from some social net site. Recently he installed Vim, and he wants to convert CSV DB to specific format `key=value' where `key' is login and `value' is password, but password in DB is encrypted in ROT13. Help him.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #2 / 35
Number of attempts: 3

Python: Def to Lambda - 455 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #2 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Turn the x - 328 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #25 / 82
Number of attempts: 4

Format the CSS - 158 entries

You just copied some CSS color names from the web and need to add them to your python module. Create the COLORS variable and assign a dict() with the names as keys and hex-colors as values. BEWARE OF THE TABS!!

Best score: 41
Best player score: 44
Position: #19 / 49
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4479 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #214 / 1097
Number of attempts: 4

Levenshtein distance - 105 entries

Compute distance for each pair. Notice that this recursive implementation is very inefficient. Wagner-Fischer algorithm is iterative and much faster. #vimscript

Best score: 27
Best player score: 31
Position: #12 / 37
Number of attempts: 4

Satisfy the go linter - 2391 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #4 / 471
Number of attempts: 2

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 954 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #98 / 305
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 700 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #29 / 302
Number of attempts: 3

Data reformat - 294 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

Best score: 36
Best player score: 38
Position: #5 / 65
Number of attempts: 8

xrandr outputs and dashes - 704 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #1 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 764 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #3 / 169
Number of attempts: 2

Capitalize the Names - 408 entries

I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #10 / 97
Number of attempts: 4

C# data class to F# record - 79 entries

Converting from C# to F# is not hard, but requires some manual labor. Here you should convert from a C# data class to a F# record.

Best score: 63
Best player score: 76
Position: #12 / 18
Number of attempts: 2

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1146 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #51 / 229
Number of attempts: 2

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: #108 / 7420
Number of attempts: 7

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 925 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #2 / 261
Number of attempts: 2

Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #1 / 204
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 152 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #6 / 52
Number of attempts: 3

Add text at some column - 173 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #25 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #361 / 1268
Number of attempts: 5

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6308 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #11 / 1537
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_part1 - 54 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 52
Best player score: 55
Position: #9 / 17
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1049 / 3864
Number of attempts: 12

Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #10 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Quote modules - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #45 / 281
Number of attempts: 6

TAR archive pretty print - 31 entries

Will you use isk ?

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

add line and index - 100 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

Best score: 44
Best player score: 57
Position: #22 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #38 / 155
Number of attempts: 3

Quote modules (ver.2) - 239 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #30 / 60
Number of attempts: 6

Separate the lines - 182 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 195 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #7 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #113 / 579
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #11 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1075 / 1893
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2880 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #33 / 851
Number of attempts: 3

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 323 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #1 / 71
Number of attempts: 5

Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #2 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1214 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #2 / 249
Number of attempts: 3

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: #4 / 101
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10852 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #6 / 3063
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2037 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #45 / 525
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #14 / 634
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #511 / 1162
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #181 / 865
Number of attempts: 3

Extract wireshark capture filter - 216 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #12 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #556 / 1876
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_part6 - 30 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition

Best score: 35
Best player score: 36
Position: #8 / 12
Number of attempts: 2

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 135 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #7 / 47
Number of attempts: 3

Triangular Numbers - 104 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #5 / 29
Number of attempts: 2

Hash staircase - 56 entries

Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #1 / 25
Number of attempts: 3

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #74 / 230
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: #12 / 380
Number of attempts: 2

html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 48
Position: #7 / 126
Number of attempts: 6

From argument to object - 1508 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: #2 / 458
Number of attempts: 6

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #6 / 178
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #298 / 703
Number of attempts: 2

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: #200 / 640
Number of attempts: 2

Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #2 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #29 / 119
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #339 / 753
Number of attempts: 3

Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 74 entries

Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #10 / 19
Number of attempts: 4

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: #3 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #2 / 129
Number of attempts: 6

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #87 / 701
Number of attempts: 4

comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 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: #3 / 322
Number of attempts: 3

Letterbox - 145 entries

Make a box!

Best score: 35
Best player score: 54
Position: #19 / 28
Number of attempts: 1

Flip the bit - 130 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #4 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

The D a n k Side of the Moon - 50 entries

You're making a vaporwave cover of The Dark Side of the Moon. So for the tracklisting, you want to: 1. Change the track names to v a p o r c a s e 2. Double the track lengths (since you're slowing them down). Well... let's just double the minutes.

Best score: 40
Best player score: 40
Position: #3 / 17
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #305 / 4197
Number of attempts: 8

On Being Stylish - 81 entries

Your PR cannot be accepted if you don't follow our corporate style guide.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #8 / 21
Number of attempts: 5

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: #2 / 44
Number of attempts: 9

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #4 / 588
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #44 / 273
Number of attempts: 8

Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #5 / 133
Number of attempts: 3

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: #4 / 60
Number of attempts: 5

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: #3 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

Subnetting - 131 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #2 / 39
Number of attempts: 2

Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 27 entries

Convert from one format to another

Best score: 56
Best player score: 56
Position: #1 / 12
Number of attempts: 4

For all cases. - 161 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #6 / 106
Number of attempts: 2

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 261 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #3 / 141
Number of attempts: 3

Splits long lines in more readable ones - 13 entries

Those tests have too long lines. We have to split the to have more readable ones. This is based on a real project with Ruby and RSpec.

Best score: 54
Best player score: 75
Position: #6 / 6
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 394 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #8 / 145
Number of attempts: 6

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: #2 / 35
Number of attempts: 9

Lenny Spiral - 16 entries

Make one lenny into an infinite army of lennys.

Best score: 35
Best player score: 36
Position: #5 / 8
Number of attempts: 5

Back to the roots - 63 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #6 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

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: #1 / 39
Number of attempts: 3

Missing Library and a Typo - 887 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #31 / 213
Number of attempts: 3

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: #12 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

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: 58
Position: #10 / 10
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #414 / 1264
Number of attempts: 12

Simple addition - 326 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #1 / 122
Number of attempts: 4

Hidden Message - 93 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #16 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #6 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 117 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #4 / 73
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 984 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: #2 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #2 / 105
Number of attempts: 2

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 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: #5 / 291
Number of attempts: 4

Nesting SASS - 266 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #5 / 96
Number of attempts: 16

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: #13 / 63
Number of attempts: 5

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: 27
Position: #18 / 53
Number of attempts: 5

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: #52 / 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: #3 / 140
Number of attempts: 7

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: #14 / 83
Number of attempts: 4

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: #5 / 122
Number of attempts: 2

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: #4 / 82
Number of attempts: 2

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #4 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #11 / 267
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #76 / 2128
Number of attempts: 5

Double and switch - 43 entries

Aaaanother case switcher

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #6 / 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: #2 / 77
Number of attempts: 4

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: 21
Position: #28 / 75
Number of attempts: 6

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: 11
Position: #62 / 89
Number of attempts: 2

C Reformatting - 690 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #25 / 163
Number of attempts: 12

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #55 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

SQL to YAML - 52 entries

Should be easy with vim, or not?

Best score: 71
Best player score: 73
Position: #7 / 22
Number of attempts: 6

Triangle of arrows - 199 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #2 / 44
Number of attempts: 3

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: 61
Position: #5 / 20
Number of attempts: 7

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: #3 / 81
Number of attempts: 2

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: #2 / 76
Number of attempts: 8

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #2 / 259
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #48 / 167
Number of attempts: 7

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: #4 / 47
Number of attempts: 9

comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #3 / 424
Number of attempts: 3

lipsum lines - 278 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #1 / 95
Number of attempts: 4

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #21 / 82
Number of attempts: 2

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: #11 / 118
Number of attempts: 3

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: #8 / 118
Number of attempts: 8

Sudoku table - 92 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 50
Position: #10 / 34
Number of attempts: 2

Change attribute to getter - 140 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #2 / 59
Number of attempts: 5

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #85 / 184
Number of attempts: 5

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #7 / 128
Number of attempts: 8

Align commas - 1095 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #113 / 246
Number of attempts: 8

ascii-art diamond - 44 entries

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

Best score: 39
Best player score: 41
Position: #4 / 17
Number of attempts: 5

Create bison tokens - 47 entries

Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words

Best score: 85
Best player score: 85
Position: #1 / 18
Number of attempts: 5

A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #33 / 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: 56
Position: #19 / 50
Number of attempts: 5

mp3 - Cutlist - 42 entries

An audio CD was accidentally ripped into one single mp3 file. A dummy cue-file now needs to be filled out with the correct values to get single mp3 files.

Best score: 65
Best player score: 69
Position: #5 / 14
Number of attempts: 9

Hello ${world} - 324 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #3 / 96
Number of attempts: 5

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge4 - 95 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #8 / 65
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: 15
Position: #69 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

Python challenge - 172 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #2 / 46
Number of attempts: 5

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: #3 / 672
Number of attempts: 2

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 662 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #72 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 147 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #6 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2044 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #99 / 503
Number of attempts: 3

Build a six - 294 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #1 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #8 / 248
Number of attempts: 7

ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #43 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

simple format (3) - 86 entries

reverse two column values!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #2 / 24
Number of attempts: 8

Greek Letters - 64 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: 35
Position: #4 / 25
Number of attempts: 3

Around the clock - 199 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #8 / 77
Number of attempts: 3

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #37 / 151
Number of attempts: 2

snowflake fractal - 51 entries

From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #3 / 20
Number of attempts: 3

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: #1 / 391
Number of attempts: 1

Song Transcription Oops - 243 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #15 / 78
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: #5 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Label grid cells (6x6) - 53 entries

Label the cells of a grid with its coordinates. Rows are labelled top to bottom from A to F, and columns left to right from A to F. Each cell has a coordinate MN, where M is the row letter and N is the column letter.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #2 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

Remove quotes after first field - 380 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #4 / 91
Number of attempts: 6

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: 30
Position: #46 / 163
Number of attempts: 8

Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #2 / 264
Number of attempts: 3

Add Go XML to structure tags - 170 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #18 / 69
Number of attempts: 3

move titles next to url, in quotes - 534 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #33 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #53 / 448
Number of attempts: 3

Sierpinski's Triangle - 86 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #16 / 27
Number of attempts: 2

convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #3 / 227
Number of attempts: 4

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #22 / 269
Number of attempts: 5

unknown command - 167 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #2 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #99 / 159
Number of attempts: 5

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #31 / 70
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #109 / 1190
Number of attempts: 13

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #9 / 69
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #40 / 444
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #96 / 290
Number of attempts: 4

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: 18
Position: #42 / 114
Number of attempts: 5

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: #8 / 20
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #187 / 4180
Number of attempts: 10

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #125 / 1137
Number of attempts: 6

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #20 / 271
Number of attempts: 4

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: 42
Position: #14 / 42
Number of attempts: 7

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #43 / 300
Number of attempts: 2

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: 11
Position: #61 / 585
Number of attempts: 9

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #94 / 3683
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #106 / 702
Number of attempts: 6

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: 35
Position: #5 / 23
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #253 / 3963
Number of attempts: 6

Enumerate words - 254 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #30 / 91
Number of attempts: 3

Resort and deup a CSV list - 167 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 44
Position: #2 / 43
Number of attempts: 4

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: #7 / 39
Number of attempts: 2

[Real World] PHP To Markdown - 33 entries

Fun refactoring I had to do in the real world. This presents several challenges: - How to create a table that fits the informations exactly - How to keep track of two informations per line while doing the refactoring - Generate the link from the actual text Have fun!

Best score: 141
Best player score: 160
Position: #6 / 9
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #34 / 196
Number of attempts: 5

Pascal's Triangle - 38 entries

Generate the first 17 left-justified rows of Pascal's triangle.

Best score: 36
Best player score: 36
Position: #2 / 17
Number of attempts: 6

Santa's naughty / nice list - 90 entries

Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #2 / 26
Number of attempts: 2

If-then-else regexp - 53 entries

Rules: - golf is never following golf - vim comes first! Drawing a finite-state machine diagram could help. #regexp

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #4 / 14
Number of attempts: 6

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: #9 / 49
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII-art Histogram - 320 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 41
Position: #30 / 57
Number of attempts: 4

Array Transposition - 201 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 29
Position: #15 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

Alphabet soup - 429 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #27 / 108
Number of attempts: 4

calculations - 312 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #3 / 68
Number of attempts: 5

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #38 / 754
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #376 / 1748
Number of attempts: 2

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: #3 / 67
Number of attempts: 3

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #325 / 408
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: 38
Position: #2 / 52
Number of attempts: 7

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: 12
Position: #15 / 265
Number of attempts: 4

Get rid of html tags - 398 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #9 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

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: 13
Position: #381 / 3694
Number of attempts: 5

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: #139 / 1706
Number of attempts: 12

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