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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

39587 active golfers, 470522 entries, 603 challenges

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Binary and Increment - 56 entries

Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.

Refactoring useless Method away - 116 entries

Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement

Square numbers - 123 entries

Boring math puzzle.

Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 37 entries

Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!

JSON string rotation - 64 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

Test everything! - 186 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

Just the middle - 11446 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Simple Maths - 57 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Config Sections - 53 entries

Section me!

Pretty format for variable declarations - 170 entries

Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.

Condensed Cases - 804 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.

I forgot quotes - 15977 entries

Oops.

Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 76 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Shift down - 209 entries

Number words are back.

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Winding path - 122 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Acute accents - 33 entries

Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

vim1001 - 307 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Roman numerals - 81 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Suffix sort - 270 entries

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

Comparing scores - 112 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.

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 139 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!

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

120 Degrees - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

V to the i - 4799 entries

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

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Change name of a variable - 179 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.

Don't know what this is - 2020 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Shuffle puzzle - 346 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.

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 88 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.

Extract argument from function - 2355 entries

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

Two become one - 713 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

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

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

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.

Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 88 entries

Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.

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!

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10658 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

O Christmas Tree - 109 entries

Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).

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