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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #1138 / 7420
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1753 / 3864
Number of attempts: 2

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #54 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #334 / 588
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 entries

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

Best score: 39
Best player score: 45
Position: #273 / 380
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 647 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #23 / 254
Number of attempts: 4

Cartesian product - 255 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 36
Position: #63 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #34 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1183 / 3963
Number of attempts: 1

Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 179 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #47 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #35 / 174
Number of attempts: 8

Coordinates placeholder - 73 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 56
Position: #38 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Define to require - 127 entries

When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.

Best score: 62
Best player score: 69
Position: #14 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

REDRUM - 166 entries

If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #31 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

Execute immediate SQL - 90 entries

Sql string tranformation ...

Best score: 58
Best player score: 70
Position: #10 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 95 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #31 / 43
Number of attempts: 1

Chinese Multiplication Table - 81 entries

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

Best score: 39
Best player score: 69
Position: #12 / 26
Number of attempts: 2

Transposition - 99 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 56
Position: #27 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #41 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #116 / 201
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor arguments into object argument - 166 entries

A relatively common Javascript refactoring.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 58
Position: #18 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Printable ASCII characters - 142 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 43
Position: #31 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 193 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #65 / 106
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: 35
Position: #83 / 168
Number of attempts: 3

Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #96 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 34
Position: #431 / 480
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #172 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #325 / 754
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #451 / 777
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #305 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 10
Position: #248 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #735 / 1748
Number of attempts: 1

Calculate the table totals - 146 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 55
Position: #28 / 45
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: 56
Position: #173 / 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: #245 / 650
Number of attempts: 2

Line Zipper - 473 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #174 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 27
Position: #261 / 336
Number of attempts: 1

Happy New Year! - 145 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #47 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #112 / 198
Number of attempts: 2

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 33
Position: #121 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #141 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Insert a Markdown link - 439 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #100 / 147
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #350 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

Getters & Setters: Java - 207 entries

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

Best score: 89
Best player score: 121
Position: #33 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Java Array2List - 233 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 92
Position: #33 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 366 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #54 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1244 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #46 / 406
Number of attempts: 3

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

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

Best score: 56
Best player score: 106
Position: #35 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1999 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #289 / 516
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1050 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #62 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

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

Best score: 106
Best player score: 134
Position: #88 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 429 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 34
Position: #84 / 139
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 473 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #81 / 176
Number of attempts: 2

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #63 / 90
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #111 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #249 / 408
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 534 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #36 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 542 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 33
Position: #138 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 532 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #66 / 186
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #4 / 527
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the Haiku - 308 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 47
Position: #88 / 113
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 577 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 9
Position: #176 / 246
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #99 / 141
Number of attempts: 3

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #23 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1052 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #180 / 344
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat a C golf submission - 604 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #47 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

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: 15
Position: #117 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 717 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #108 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1580 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #20 / 588
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1451 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #391 / 563
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1021 / 3694
Number of attempts: 2