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Swap values - 148 entries
Well, swap the values...
Simple, Practical, and Common - 4797 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.
Vice versa - 2323 entries
Little role switching.
Just the middle - 4534 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
I forgot quotes - 4216 entries
Oops.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 6578 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
Words in parens - 7300 entries
We should all ace this, right?
Sorting a glossary - 51 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
Collect List - 1506 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
comments galore - 459 entries
Basic comment reformatting
Alsa configuration - 176 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
Basic renumbering - 2210 entries
Renumbering Basic.
Simple text editing with Vim - 7973 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
V to the i - 2055 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
-a-b-c- - 1397 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 4700 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
Replace and keep the case - 216 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
That hyphen - 1193 entries
"vim vi improved"
attr_aligner - 2046 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 96 entries
Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.
quotes inside quotes - 2073 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 :)
switch variable - 3272 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
Make HTML List - 500 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
Extract argument from function - 1365 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
Space out the alphabet - 712 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
Angular naming conventions - 208 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!
Don't know what this is - 1028 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
Mirror Symmetry - 419 entries
Add backslashes.
Fix the XML - 562 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
Search and Replace 0 - 3046 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
camel riding - 507 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
lipsum lines - 169 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 108 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.
replacing each line of a block selection - 1918 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
Count both ways - 676 entries
Right AND down.
Letter case trickery - 1081 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.
Condensed Cases - 550 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.
Vertical Limit - 1508 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2130 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 672 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
Saving the hashes(#) - 1234 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.
Where should I put the Newline? - 674 entries
Help me put the newline.
Switch function arguments - 1430 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
Add to end of each line... kinda - 204 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?
Mess in revision history - 725 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
Make it more readable - 1440 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
Gray area - 459 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
Mute the second method of this script - 340 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
Hole-in-one - 842 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.
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1058 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
Numbering a List - 1495 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
Line 'em up! - 211 entries
It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!
readability - 242 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
Two become one - 541 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
Shebangs for all - 1347 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.
Happy TvvO - 283 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
ASCII box - 246 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
remove dupes from array - 984 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 723 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
Logging with key - 212 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
Vim's not included features - 106 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
Change the content of a string - 1081 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
Lisp Condense - 322 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
Shuffled numbers - 169 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
The Cake is a Lie - 979 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
Append semicolon after expressions - 708 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
120 Degrees - 293 entries
Rotate that triangle.
Sort and add attributes - 957 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
Restore order to the alphabet - 128 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 927 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!
Manual SQL - 61 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
Reconstruct the Sentence - 901 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
Exchanging Quotes - 649 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
VimGolfNight - 386 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
Make Fancy Header - 790 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
Shuffle puzzle - 256 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.
Flodder-challenge - 751 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
The name of the game - 492 entries
End up with the name of the game.
Sorting database text output - 148 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?
A Simple One - 730 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
Create bison tokens - 29 entries
Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words
Vim tetris - 277 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 699 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.
Swap assigned value - 418 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
Minimalist Limerick - 401 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
Remove noise from HTTP log - 485 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
vim1001 - 189 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 520 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
lamb had a little Mary - 404 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 192 entries
Just testing.
Split the words - 288 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.
remove all lines in first part - 104 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!
Prefixes and suffixes - 377 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
Reverse Simple Deletion - 620 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
The meaning - 454 entries
Numbers are fun!
HTML to Haml - 598 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
Assign numbers to fields - 58 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
Wget failed to download redirections - 134 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.
Going underground.... - 261 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
vim = 22 / 7 - 353 entries
pi square vim
Braces or Brackets? - 594 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
Counting in binary - 294 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
Assignment Alignment - 576 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
Delete unwanted lines - 294 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
Pairs of numbers - 292 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
Shift down - 146 entries
Number words are back.
learn vim in short time - 144 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
Refactor static member invocation - 146 entries
Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.
Interleave lines - 100 entries
This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!
Sudoku table - 47 entries
Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.
increment by column in XML - 119 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 167 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
imports alignment (python) - 508 entries
Align as one import per line.
swap or reverse - 75 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
Entries sort - 66 entries
It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !
Ruby 1.9 compat - 515 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!
Remove semicolons after expressions - 370 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
Suffix sort - 147 entries
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
Stairs Indenting - 323 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
Reverse and double space - 370 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
NATO phonetic alphabet - 309 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
A simple change - 291 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 387 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!
Reformat most common surnames - 458 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
Pretty format for variable declarations - 114 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
Reformat some Python - 455 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
Reverse characters in a line - 455 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
Replacing some words - 363 entries
How fast could it be?
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 298 entries
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
Reformat a C golf submission - 429 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 429 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
Winning streak - 90 entries
Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.
Remember FizzBuzz? - 427 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 285 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."
Add fold markers to a .c file - 423 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
Interweave two blocks of text - 388 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?
Change name of a variable - 129 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.
Context insensitive completion 0 - 403 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.
Sorting paragraphs - 397 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
Line Zipper - 365 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
Case preserving word replacement - 370 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
Subtraction - 122 entries
Solve the equations.
Increment, increment, increment.... - 382 entries
Vim likes macros
Create Leading Zeros - 172 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
Indentation - 371 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 110 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!
Test everything! - 88 entries
... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.
Insert a Markdown link - 364 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
Reverse and count - 363 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 205 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!
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 353 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
Lower cased and dashed strings - 31 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 ;)
abcd > a b c d - 217 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
Generate English Alphabets - 342 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 335 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
Number an outline - 178 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
Hatsuyume - 336 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
Rail fence transposition cipher - 62 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.
Readable Rubyhash - 210 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!
Sort entries based on date - 278 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
Fill visual area - 60 entries
Just have fun!
Refactoring useless Method away - 72 entries
Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement
Enumerate words - 190 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
Winding path - 81 entries
It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.
Word frequency alignment - 184 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...
Separating firstname & lastname - 64 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
Top X - 155 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
Reformat long lines - 298 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
Change your calendar - 181 entries
Happy New Year!
Table Reshuffle - 296 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
Land of the Lost - 55 entries
Enter the tabs below the lyrics
Get rid of html tags - 289 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
Assign list - 145 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
Python to Ruby - 183 entries
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
Alphabetize the directory - 239 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
The holy-grail may help - 271 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 157 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?
Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 182 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
Deleting folded text - 254 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.
Refactor arguments into object argument - 149 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
Compile C - 244 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
Block Fun 1 - 152 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
Tiny column alignment - 36 entries
Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!
expand a list comprehension (python) - 234 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
Piphilology - 88 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
Fix the Haiku - 232 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 230 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
Dehamlizing - 155 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 86 entries
Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.
Java Array2List - 208 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
Shuffle and Sort - 152 entries
The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be
Prime Numbers - 210 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 53 entries
Implementing the methods of a Java Interface
Groups magic - 128 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
Comparing scores - 61 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.
Sort the cardinal numbers - 193 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
O Christmas Tree - 85 entries
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
Do you speak Spanish ? - 54 entries
Do you write often in Spanish? If so, use digraph to insert the inverse question mark.
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 145 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.
Draw the Go board - 108 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))
REDRUM - 124 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.
Roman numerals - 57 entries
Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.
constructor - 161 entries
coding a constructor for a simple class
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 176 entries
Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.
Round Round - 197 entries
Round Round
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 195 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 130 entries
Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.
Inconsistent real estate paste - 138 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
Circle in a square - 116 entries
Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.
Recursively Palindrome - 183 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 188 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 188 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
Not enough Ps - 35 entries
Different type of code
Define to require - 111 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.
formatted text to markdown - 170 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.
Multiplication table. - 169 entries
Create a multiplication table.
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 127 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?
Square numbers - 42 entries
Boring math puzzle.
Create a pandoc compatible table - 131 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/
Turn this csv list into queries - 179 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
Complete the hex array data - 167 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
Cartesian product - 175 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
Unwrap the text of an email message - 110 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?
SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 116 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.
HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 59 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.
C to VimDict - 38 entries
Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.
Remove hard line breaks - 29 entries
Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.
Checkerboard case pattern - 105 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
Greek column realign - 35 entries
Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*
Almost encrypted - 160 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
Changing URL path in CSS - 111 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)
Extract text from xml - 95 entries
Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.
Maze path - 17 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.
JSON string rotation - 35 entries
Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!
Ninjas Leaderboard - 69 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.
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 146 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
Solve the Sokoban - 144 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
Calculate the table totals - 104 entries
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
Binary and Increment - 32 entries
Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.
CSV to JSON - 142 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
Printable ASCII characters - 89 entries
From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.
SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 93 entries
Move the pipes so they match the output.
Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 11 entries
Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.
Overall Vimgolf Rank - 131 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.
Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 22 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.
paste indent correction - JS - 69 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 26 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!
It's a factor - 73 entries
Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 125 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.)
Format the output - 91 entries
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
Happy New Year! - 122 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 112 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
Getters & Setters: Java - 120 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...
Execute immediate SQL - 72 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
Word Blender - 117 entries
The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?
Letters are numbers - 117 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?
Lookahead and Lookbehind - 62 entries
Look everywhere
Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 57 entries
Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.
Five Pillars - 43 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.
Config Sections - 25 entries
Section me!
Transposition - 64 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
Complete the circuit grid! - 72 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.
Linear congruential generator - 103 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
Carriage return - 40 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!
Make the circuit grid! - 71 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.
SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 68 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.
Chucking wood - 63 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.)
Custom McCarthy sequence - 17 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
Python: Lots of function arguments - 62 entries
The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.
Create an alphabet diamond - 67 entries
Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 83 entries
Same class but reverse!
Simple Maths - 22 entries
Not much to say, discover by yourself!
SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 62 entries
Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)
Before there was Farmville... - 89 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
Flip the chessboard - 56 entries
White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.
Remove Accent off the Letter - 89 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
Add links to an existing HTML table - 55 entries
Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.
50 factorials mod 97 - 17 entries
List 1! to 50!, but give your answer mod 97.
Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 57 entries
Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.
Recursive Cowsay - 41 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
Sierpinski's Triangle - 57 entries
Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.
fib.c cleanup - 52 entries
cleanup the file
Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 18 entries
Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 48 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.)
Dumb to smart - 77 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
Coordinates placeholder - 46 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.
Chinese Multiplication Table - 45 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.
Here, piggy, piggy... - 75 entries
Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...
Convert regular pandoc footnotes to in-line notes - 51 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.)
Permutations N=4 - 32 entries
Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !
Extended Customer 2 - 39 entries
Format the chars
Under the cupola - 32 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!)
un-C-escape string - 51 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 42 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...
Return the cow - 66 entries
This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.
Conway sequence - 12 entries
Generate the the first fifteen numbers. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence
range(10) digit rotation - 14 entries
This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..
Enharmonic Equivalents - 43 entries
Transform # and b to digraphs
Presidential Sorting - 40 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!
Untangle my tail, please! - 30 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?
XML to JSON - 38 entries
Convert this xml file into json.
Greek Letters - 38 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!
Fibonacci Triangles - 36 entries
Triangles
Sort by your own sum - 39 entries
Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.
Across-Down Flip - 32 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
Acute accents - 16 entries
Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.
LaTeX to XML Math Delimiters - 35 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>"
No naked if allowed! - 2 entries
House style forbids naked condition statements, comments should start with a space character and be on their own line. Good luck!
maximun and minimun - 38 entries
Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.
199 Fibonacci Numbers - 31 entries
Generate 199 Fibonacci Numbers using, if you like, the function S(x,y), a vimscript to sum two big numbers in reverse order.
Change The Perspective - 26 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'.
Refactor to Helpers - 42 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.)