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Simple, Practical, and Common - 8391 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.
Every other line - 194 entries
AaAaAaA
One number per line - 2119 entries
Just give me the numbers.
Just the middle - 5419 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
I forgot quotes - 5206 entries
Oops.
Paragraph breaks - 169 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
Split line with dots - 1017 entries
This line is too long, split it.
Vice versa - 3022 entries
Little role switching.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 7070 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
Swap values - 1455 entries
Well, swap the values...
Words in parens - 7890 entries
We should all ace this, right?
C Reformatting - 283 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
Copy three lines - 492 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
Collect List - 1941 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
Simple text editing with Vim - 8375 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
Basic renumbering - 2637 entries
Renumbering Basic.
V to the i - 2441 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
Paragraph sort - 189 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
Generate a list of numbers - 137 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
Align commas - 388 entries
There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 4920 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
Pretty multi-line bash - 115 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
-a-b-c- - 1671 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
comments galore - 634 entries
Basic comment reformatting
attr_aligner - 2269 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
Wrap text in quotes - 181 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
switch variable - 3472 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
Scrambled numbers - 382 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
quotes inside quotes - 2224 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 :)
From A to B - 317 entries
Mirror and change this text block
That hyphen - 1366 entries
"vim vi improved"
Extract argument from function - 1481 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
Search and Replace 0 - 3271 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
Space out the alphabet - 897 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
Don't know what this is - 1175 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
Alsa configuration - 341 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
Make HTML List - 604 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
A grid of punctuation - 73 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
replacing each line of a block selection - 2028 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
Fix the XML - 652 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
Mirror Symmetry - 505 entries
Add backslashes.
Array of characters - 71 entries
We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.
Vertical Limit - 1611 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
camel riding - 561 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
Letter case trickery - 1166 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.
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2154 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
Count both ways - 743 entries
Right AND down.
Saving the hashes(#) - 1308 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.
Replace and keep the case - 281 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
Switch function arguments - 1502 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 733 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
Condensed Cases - 587 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.
Make it more readable - 1488 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
Where should I put the Newline? - 710 entries
Help me put the newline.
Mess in revision history - 752 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
Hole-in-one - 882 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.
Numbering a List - 1520 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1086 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
Angular naming conventions - 232 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!
Gray area - 492 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
Shebangs for all - 1381 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.
lipsum lines - 204 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
Mute the second method of this script - 361 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
Two become one - 547 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
underscore_to_camelCase - 114 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
Mirrored text - 115 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
remove dupes from array - 1005 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
Add to end of each line... kinda - 224 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?
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 765 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
Change the content of a string - 1133 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
Line 'em up! - 233 entries
It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!
The Cake is a Lie - 1027 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 121 entries
Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.
Happy TvvO - 307 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
readability - 249 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
Append semicolon after expressions - 748 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
Sort and add attributes - 975 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 941 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!
Reconstruct the Sentence - 921 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
Inner hyphens - 86 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
ASCII box - 254 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
Lisp Condense - 331 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 121 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.
Exchanging Quotes - 667 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
Logging with key - 234 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
Free hyphen! - 81 entries
Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?
Make Fancy Header - 816 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
120 Degrees - 303 entries
Rotate that triangle.
ascii-art diamond - 20 entries
Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.
Sorting a glossary - 79 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
Flodder-challenge - 767 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
VimGolfNight - 405 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
A Simple One - 747 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 734 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.
The name of the game - 510 entries
End up with the name of the game.
Shuffled numbers - 180 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
Remove noise from HTTP log - 519 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
Vim's not included features - 125 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
Shuffle puzzle - 263 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.
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 536 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
Swap assigned value - 435 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
Minimalist Limerick - 415 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
Vim tetris - 286 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
Reverse Simple Deletion - 633 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
lamb had a little Mary - 407 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
HTML to Haml - 605 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
Restore order to the alphabet - 133 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
Assignment Alignment - 598 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
Prefixes and suffixes - 388 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
Braces or Brackets? - 598 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
The meaning - 458 entries
Numbers are fun!
Split the words - 297 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.
vim1001 - 203 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
vim = 22 / 7 - 359 entries
pi square vim
Fun With The Diagonal - 53 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
Sorting database text output - 157 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?
ASCII Art - 52 entries
how good are you with simple regex?
Counting in binary - 305 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 200 entries
Just testing.
Going underground.... - 264 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
imports alignment (python) - 523 entries
Align as one import per line.
Delete unwanted lines - 297 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
Ruby 1.9 compat - 523 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!
Pairs of numbers - 293 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
Manual SQL - 82 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
Remove semicolons after expressions - 381 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
Reverse and double space - 376 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
Reverse characters in a line - 484 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
Stairs Indenting - 327 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
Reformat most common surnames - 471 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
Remember FizzBuzz? - 470 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
Reformat some Python - 463 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
A simple change - 306 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
learn vim in short time - 152 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 388 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!
NATO phonetic alphabet - 317 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
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.
Replacing some words - 365 entries
How fast could it be?
Shift down - 146 entries
Number words are back.
remove all lines in first part - 109 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!
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 438 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 168 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
Reformat a C golf submission - 432 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
Interweave two blocks of text - 400 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?
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 298 entries
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
Add fold markers to a .c file - 425 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
Refactor static member invocation - 146 entries
Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.
Suffix sort - 151 entries
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 291 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."
Context insensitive completion 0 - 411 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.
Increment, increment, increment.... - 408 entries
Vim likes macros
Sorting paragraphs - 398 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
increment by column in XML - 119 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
Line Zipper - 366 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
Case preserving word replacement - 371 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
Interleave lines - 104 entries
This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!
Indentation - 380 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
SQL to YAML - 32 entries
Should be easy with vim, or not?
Reverse and count - 365 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
Insert a Markdown link - 364 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 360 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
Pretty format for variable declarations - 114 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
Generate English Alphabets - 348 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
Change name of a variable - 132 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.
Assign numbers to fields - 64 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 336 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
Create Leading Zeros - 174 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
Hatsuyume - 337 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
swap or reverse - 77 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
abcd > a b c d - 220 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
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!
Sort entries based on date - 278 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
Subtraction - 122 entries
Solve the equations.
Entries sort - 68 entries
It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !
Readable Rubyhash - 212 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!
Winning streak - 90 entries
Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.
Number an outline - 178 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 111 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!
Enumerate words - 198 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
Reformat long lines - 298 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
Table Reshuffle - 298 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
Get rid of html tags - 291 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
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...
Test everything! - 88 entries
... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.
Change your calendar - 181 entries
Happy New Year!
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
The holy-grail may help - 273 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
Alphabetize the directory - 240 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
Python to Ruby - 183 entries
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
Sudoku table - 47 entries
Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.
Assign list - 145 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
Deleting folded text - 255 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.
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?
Compile C - 249 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
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
Winding path - 81 entries
It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.
Rail fence transposition cipher - 63 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.
expand a list comprehension (python) - 235 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
Refactor arguments into object argument - 150 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
Fill visual area - 64 entries
Just have fun!
Block Fun 1 - 156 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
Refactoring useless Method away - 72 entries
Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement
Fix the Haiku - 234 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!)
Create bison tokens - 30 entries
Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words
Separating firstname & lastname - 65 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
Prime Numbers - 223 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
Dehamlizing - 155 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
Java Array2List - 210 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
Shuffle and Sort - 159 entries
The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be
Land of the Lost - 57 entries
Enter the tabs below the lyrics
Piphilology - 89 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
Sort the cardinal numbers - 193 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 151 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.
Lower cased and dashed strings - 35 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 ;)
Round Round - 198 entries
Round Round
REDRUM - 129 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.
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 196 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
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.
Groups magic - 128 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
Recursively Palindrome - 187 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 86 entries
Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 190 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
Inconsistent real estate paste - 140 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 188 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries
Implementing the methods of a Java Interface
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))
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.
Circle in a square - 119 entries
Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.
O Christmas Tree - 88 entries
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
Complete the hex array data - 174 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
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.
Turn this csv list into queries - 180 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
Comparing scores - 65 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.
Cartesian product - 178 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
Define to require - 113 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.
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 128 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 - 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/
Unwrap the text of an email message - 111 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.
Do you speak Spanish ? - 56 entries
Do you write often in Spanish? If so, use digraph to insert the inverse question mark.
Roman numerals - 57 entries
Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.
Almost encrypted - 161 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
Tiny column alignment - 37 entries
Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!
Checkerboard case pattern - 105 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
Square numbers - 48 entries
Boring math puzzle.
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)
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
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.
Solve the Sokoban - 144 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
Not enough Ps - 38 entries
Different type of code
Extract text from xml - 95 entries
Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.
Printable ASCII characters - 95 entries
From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.
CSV to JSON - 142 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
Calculate the table totals - 105 entries
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 93 entries
Move the pipes so they match the output.
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.
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.
Greek column realign - 38 entries
Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*
paste indent correction - JS - 75 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
Getters & Setters: Java - 129 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...
C to VimDict - 38 entries
Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.
Format the output - 95 entries
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
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.)
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 116 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
Convert pasted text into Markdown - 10 entries
I often need to copy/paste text into Markdown files. The challenge here is to wrap the lines in a way that prefers breaks after periods, commas, or other logical demarcations. There should be no spaces at the beginning of a line.
Happy New Year! - 122 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
Letters are numbers - 121 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?
It's a factor - 73 entries
Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.
Remove hard line breaks - 30 entries
Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.
Word Blender - 118 entries
The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?
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"!
Execute immediate SQL - 72 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
Binary and Increment - 32 entries
Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.
Lookahead and Lookbehind - 62 entries
Look everywhere
Linear congruential generator - 103 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 57 entries
Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.
No naked if allowed! - 14 entries
House style forbids naked condition statements, comments should start with a space character and be on their own line. Good luck!
Chucking wood - 68 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.)
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.
SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 69 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.
Transposition - 64 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
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.
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.
Python: Lots of function arguments - 64 entries
The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.
SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 66 entries
Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)
Create an alphabet diamond - 67 entries
Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...
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!
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 83 entries
Same class but reverse!
Before there was Farmville... - 89 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
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!
Remove Accent off the Letter - 89 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
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.
Add links to an existing HTML table - 59 entries
Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.
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.
Flip the chessboard - 57 entries
White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 56 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.)
Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 14 entries
Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.
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.
Sierpinski's Triangle - 57 entries
Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.
Config Sections - 25 entries
Section me!
50 factorials mod 97 - 22 entries
List 1! to 50!, but give your answer mod 97.
fib.c cleanup - 52 entries
cleanup the file
Recursive Cowsay - 41 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
Dumb to smart - 77 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
Here, piggy, piggy... - 75 entries
Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...
Coordinates placeholder - 47 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.
Permutations N=4 - 36 entries
Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !
Simple Maths - 22 entries
Not much to say, discover by yourself!
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.
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.)
Enharmonic Equivalents - 48 entries
Transform # and b to digraphs
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
Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 45 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.
Across-Down Flip - 37 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
un-C-escape string - 51 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
Extended Customer 2 - 39 entries
Format the chars
Untangle my tail, please! - 33 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 - 40 entries
Convert this xml file into json.
range(10) digit rotation - 18 entries
This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..
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!)
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!
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!
Sort by your own sum - 39 entries
Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.
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
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>"
199 Fibonacci Numbers - 34 entries
Generate 199 Fibonacci Numbers using, if you like, the function S(x,y), a vimscript to sum two big numbers in reverse order.
maximun and minimun - 38 entries
Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.
Conway sequence - 14 entries
Generate the the first fifteen numbers. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence
Acute accents - 18 entries
Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.
Change The Perspective - 29 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.)