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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: 26
Position: #3440 / 7420
Number of attempts: 1

vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #65 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #874 / 1893
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #407 / 753
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: #797 / 1624
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1867 / 4197
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: 43
Position: #168 / 380
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #647 / 1264
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: 43
Position: #57 / 82
Number of attempts: 5

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1508 / 2128
Number of attempts: 1

lipsum lines - 278 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 31
Position: #42 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Angular naming conventions - 320 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #3 / 118
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: 34
Position: #41 / 43
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 647 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #223 / 254
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #139 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #177 / 281
Number of attempts: 1

Line 'em up! - 421 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #43 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1576 / 4180
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #743 / 1137
Number of attempts: 2

Suffix sort - 270 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #30 / 67
Number of attempts: 4

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: #77 / 208
Number of attempts: 3

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: 76
Position: #19 / 24
Number of attempts: 4

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: 35
Position: #19 / 52
Number of attempts: 5

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #111 / 250
Number of attempts: 3

Carriage return - 43 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!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #7 / 21
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1647 / 3683
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 30
Position: #359 / 702
Number of attempts: 4

Counting in binary - 526 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #43 / 117
Number of attempts: 5

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: #313 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 348 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!

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #50 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

Number an outline - 280 entries

The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 67
Position: #63 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2032 / 3963
Number of attempts: 1

Pairs of numbers - 363 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 34
Position: #58 / 136
Number of attempts: 4

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: 18
Position: #130 / 304
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 411 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #114 / 229
Number of attempts: 2

Word frequency alignment - 290 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...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #84 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #67 / 174
Number of attempts: 6

Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #59 / 201
Number of attempts: 2

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #90 / 196
Number of attempts: 3

A simple change - 461 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #99 / 191
Number of attempts: 4

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #154 / 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: #64 / 168
Number of attempts: 5

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: 9
Position: #200 / 446
Number of attempts: 3

Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #116 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #234 / 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: 31
Position: #73 / 113
Number of attempts: 3

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 37
Position: #64 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 36
Position: #117 / 230
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 27
Position: #583 / 777
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #390 / 663
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #205 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #146 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

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: #87 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #212 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1568 / 1748
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #214 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #88 / 193
Number of attempts: 2

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 24
Position: #89 / 151
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: 14
Position: #160 / 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: 22
Position: #175 / 336
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: 25
Position: #55 / 150
Number of attempts: 5

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #93 / 198
Number of attempts: 3

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #54 / 204
Number of attempts: 7

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 35
Position: #173 / 206
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #320 / 652
Number of attempts: 2

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: 13
Position: #159 / 406
Number of attempts: 3

Assignment Alignment - 883 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #88 / 220
Number of attempts: 8

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: 14
Position: #227 / 516
Number of attempts: 8

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: #362 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 629 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: 16
Position: #138 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #283 / 458
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: #166 / 527
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1052 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #81 / 344
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: 28
Position: #62 / 208
Number of attempts: 6

Change the content of a string - 1580 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #125 / 588
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1451 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #171 / 563
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: #220 / 412
Number of attempts: 2

Braces or Brackets? - 1015 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 41
Position: #110 / 315
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3665 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #309 / 787
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: 16
Position: #2202 / 3694
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 35
Position: #360 / 1706
Number of attempts: 3

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