VimGolf - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke!

Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33617 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: 33
Position: #6052 / 7421
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: 9
Position: #1588 / 1893
Number of attempts: 1

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

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #199 / 410
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #805 / 1624
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3291 / 4197
Number of attempts: 2

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: 29
Position: #25 / 43
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 647 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #161 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #91 / 281
Number of attempts: 4

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #141 / 152
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: 30
Position: #251 / 290
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 246 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #91 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #3427 / 4180
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #475 / 1137
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #144 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #36 / 116
Number of attempts: 2

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: 30
Position: #78 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Five Pillars - 63 entries

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

Best score: 41
Best player score: 57
Position: #11 / 24
Number of attempts: 3

Piphilology - 144 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 48
Position: #51 / 52
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #116 / 250
Number of attempts: 4

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: 166
Position: #30 / 33
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 356 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #83 / 128
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #233 / 3683
Number of attempts: 5

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #476 / 702
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1630 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #329 / 518
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3159 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #809 / 1078
Number of attempts: 1

Top X - 212 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #33 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #3406 / 3963
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: 19
Position: #176 / 304
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #16 / 174
Number of attempts: 5

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #165 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 609 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #66 / 168
Number of attempts: 4

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: 29
Position: #327 / 480
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #453 / 754
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: #22 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #678 / 777
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #393 / 663
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #176 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1134 / 1748
Number of attempts: 2

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 50
Position: #155 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #274 / 650
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #98 / 336
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1244 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #230 / 406
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat a C golf submission - 604 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 38
Position: #158 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1507 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #221 / 412
Number of attempts: 3

Flodder-challenge - 1262 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 36
Position: #177 / 335
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1282 / 3694
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 41
Position: #895 / 1706
Number of attempts: 2