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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 354 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #15 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 754 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #130 / 407
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #169 / 1621
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 entries

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

Best score: 39
Best player score: 40
Position: #18 / 379
Number of attempts: 2

Return the cow - 75 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 52
Position: #2 / 30
Number of attempts: 1

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #4 / 82
Number of attempts: 4

Sierpinski's Triangle - 86 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #1 / 27
Number of attempts: 5

Swap assigned value - 647 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #5 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

Cartesian product - 255 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #25 / 95
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 363 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #5 / 110
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12929 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #142 / 3961
Number of attempts: 5

fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #7 / 55
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: 15
Position: #3 / 43
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #3 / 75
Number of attempts: 6

Groups magic - 158 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #19 / 93
Number of attempts: 2

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 67 entries

The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...

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

abcd > a b c d - 291 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #12 / 222
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Lots of function arguments - 119 entries

The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 15
Position: #30 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Readable Rubyhash - 267 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #7 / 95
Number of attempts: 4

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 114 entries

Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #1 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 185 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 34
Position: #8 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

Changing URL path in CSS - 138 entries

What's the quickest way to swap out all the URLs in a CSS file? Is it wasted keystrokes using look-behinds and look-aheads? (I'm sorry for the delete/report--I made a mistake with the last one requiring an ugly search for graphic to replace with images. I just intended this to be a simple search and replace that might possibly generate some macros or normals solutions that are quicker)

Best score: 40
Best player score: 40
Position: #4 / 62
Number of attempts: 3

Checkerboard case pattern - 164 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #7 / 61
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #125 / 196
Number of attempts: 3

Create a pandoc compatible table - 214 entries

In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #2 / 56
Number of attempts: 12

Shuffle and Sort - 229 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #3 / 67
Number of attempts: 9

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: 23
Position: #7 / 44
Number of attempts: 7

A simple change - 461 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #4 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

Add links to an existing HTML table - 97 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Best score: 42
Best player score: 43
Position: #6 / 31
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 159 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #2 / 54
Number of attempts: 7

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: #30 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

Presidential Sorting - 51 entries

Given a nice CSV formatted arrangement of the Presidents of the United States, we need to print out an alphabetical list in pretty columns. Prove that vim can conquer this basic Excel task!

Best score: 40
Best player score: 51
Position: #17 / 26
Number of attempts: 3

Convert regular pandoc footnotes to in-line notes - 64 entries

Pandoc extends markdown by allowing footnotes, which are usually represented with a footnote identifier followed later in the document by the footnote itself. But Pandoc also allows inline footnotes without identifiers. How many strokes does it take to convert regular footnotes to inline notes? (NB: I've had trouble figuring out whether text-width makes a difference to Vimgolf in comparing the input and output file. I finally tested this locally using the Vimgolf vimrc and did a "gq" on the entire buffer as the last step. Apologies if I'm making a newbie mistake. First time submitter.)

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #2 / 18
Number of attempts: 8

Extract text from xml - 127 entries

Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #8 / 46
Number of attempts: 3

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 416 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #10 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #10 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

Complete the circuit grid! - 105 entries

Continuing from the last challenge, add additional rows to the grid. Change each of the names from 'A1'...'A10' to 'B1'...'B10', 'C1'...'C10', etc, and for each new row add 0.7 to the X values in the (X Y) at the end of each line.

Best score: 46
Best player score: 49
Position: #4 / 30
Number of attempts: 4

SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 90 entries

Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #1 / 33
Number of attempts: 5

lamb had a little Mary - 607 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #2 / 167
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #2 / 446
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 115 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #2 / 47
Number of attempts: 4

Chucking wood - 125 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: 54
Position: #12 / 48
Number of attempts: 3

Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #27 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

Unwrap the text of an email message - 189 entries

Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #5 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Python to Ruby - 204 entries

Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #4 / 61
Number of attempts: 6

maximun and minimun - 73 entries

Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.

Best score: 50
Best player score: 52
Position: #7 / 26
Number of attempts: 4

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 203 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #3 / 79
Number of attempts: 5

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 166 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #12 / 57
Number of attempts: 5

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 101 entries

A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #11 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Create an alphabet diamond - 105 entries

Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...

Best score: 37
Best player score: 40
Position: #6 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #4 / 445
Number of attempts: 2

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #1 / 113
Number of attempts: 3

Inconsistent real estate paste - 213 entries

Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #2 / 57
Number of attempts: 4

Enharmonic Equivalents - 59 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #2 / 37
Number of attempts: 3

Flip the chessboard - 95 entries

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

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

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #118 / 754
Number of attempts: 5

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: #16 / 50
Number of attempts: 2

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 247 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #17 / 71
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #28 / 230
Number of attempts: 8

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #33 / 777
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2136 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #2 / 662
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #27 / 419
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #37 / 199
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: 15
Position: #50 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

constructor - 182 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

Best score: 59
Best player score: 59
Position: #2 / 60
Number of attempts: 8

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #43 / 263
Number of attempts: 2

un-C-escape string - 58 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #29 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #130 / 1748
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #145 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Format the output - 146 entries

Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.

Best score: 35
Best player score: 35
Position: #3 / 40
Number of attempts: 4

Calculate the table totals - 146 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #1 / 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: 20
Position: #17 / 193
Number of attempts: 6

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #18 / 151
Number of attempts: 6

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 42
Position: #9 / 68
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: 13
Position: #26 / 650
Number of attempts: 6

Line Zipper - 473 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #100 / 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: 17
Position: #37 / 336
Number of attempts: 8

Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #10 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #16 / 150
Number of attempts: 3

Complete the hex array data - 197 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #15 / 74
Number of attempts: 4

Sort entries based on date - 392 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #33 / 117
Number of attempts: 7

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 280 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #8 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #238 / 652
Number of attempts: 5

Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #2 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 362 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #116 / 208
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: #44 / 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: 56
Position: #1 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1998 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: 12
Position: #124 / 515
Number of attempts: 4

A Simple One - 1047 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: #285 / 662
Number of attempts: 2

Round Round - 299 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #13 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 312 entries

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

Best score: 106
Best player score: 108
Position: #10 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 410 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #2 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #42 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

Letters are numbers - 167 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #4 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 257 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #25 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 627 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #34 / 233
Number of attempts: 6

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #233 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 684 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #236 / 406
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 514 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #3 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Indentation - 534 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #25 / 177
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 513 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #31 / 184
Number of attempts: 1

Turn this csv list into queries - 238 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 98
Position: #1 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Dumb to smart - 97 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #4 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1339 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #127 / 525
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the Haiku - 293 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: 28
Position: #1 / 112
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 566 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #74 / 244
Number of attempts: 3

Remove Accent off the Letter - 126 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 54
Position: #11 / 51
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 420 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #2 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #90 / 243
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #90 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Linear congruential generator - 137 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #22 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 604 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #23 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 589 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: 28
Position: #58 / 207
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 757 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: 13
Position: #51 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 698 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #3 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 713 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 47
Position: #25 / 188
Number of attempts: 2

Get rid of html tags - 394 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 25
Position: #201 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1567 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #82 / 585
Number of attempts: 2

Deleting folded text - 350 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #13 / 116
Number of attempts: 5

Sort and add attributes - 1436 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #116 / 559
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 608 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #24 / 181
Number of attempts: 6

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1487 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: 20
Position: #54 / 409
Number of attempts: 2

Braces or Brackets? - 974 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #7 / 313
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3614 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #2 / 780
Number of attempts: 9

Flodder-challenge - 1245 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #3 / 333
Number of attempts: 10

Simple text editing with Vim - 12746 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #102 / 3682
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6942 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #33 / 1699
Number of attempts: 5

Contributed Challenges

Alphabetize the directory - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Calculate the table totals - 146 entries

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

Create an alphabet diamond - 105 entries

Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 166 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

Create a pandoc compatible table - 214 entries

Conner McDaniel
Twitter: @connermcd

I'm a medical student, vim fanboy and general nerd.

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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 354 entries

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 754 entries

Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 entries

Return the cow - 75 entries

Create Leading Zeros - 241 entries

Sierpinski's Triangle - 86 entries

Swap assigned value - 647 entries

Cartesian product - 255 entries

Split the words - 363 entries

Words in parens - 12929 entries

fib.c cleanup - 68 entries

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

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Groups magic - 158 entries

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 67 entries

abcd > a b c d - 291 entries

Python: Lots of function arguments - 119 entries

Readable Rubyhash - 267 entries

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 114 entries

Dehamlizing - 185 entries

Changing URL path in CSS - 138 entries

Checkerboard case pattern - 164 entries

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Create a pandoc compatible table - 214 entries

Shuffle and Sort - 229 entries

Printable ASCII characters - 142 entries

A simple change - 461 entries

Add links to an existing HTML table - 97 entries

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 159 entries

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 193 entries

Presidential Sorting - 51 entries

Convert regular pandoc footnotes to in-line notes - 64 entries

Extract text from xml - 127 entries

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 416 entries

The name of the game - 665 entries

Complete the circuit grid! - 105 entries

SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 90 entries

lamb had a little Mary - 607 entries

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 115 entries

Chucking wood - 125 entries

Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Unwrap the text of an email message - 189 entries

Python to Ruby - 204 entries

maximun and minimun - 73 entries

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 203 entries

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 166 entries

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 101 entries

Create an alphabet diamond - 105 entries

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 entries

Inconsistent real estate paste - 213 entries

Enharmonic Equivalents - 59 entries

Flip the chessboard - 95 entries

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

Make the circuit grid! - 101 entries

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 247 entries

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

Switch function arguments - 2136 entries

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries

constructor - 182 entries

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

un-C-escape string - 58 entries

switch variable - 5071 entries

The meaning - 575 entries

Format the output - 146 entries

Calculate the table totals - 146 entries

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

Replacing some words - 428 entries

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Line Zipper - 473 entries

remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

Conner McDaniel
Twitter: @connermcd