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Simple, Practical, and Common - 12075 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.
Adam's challenge - 149 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
One number per line - 4610 entries
Just give me the numbers.
Nesting SASS - 127 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
Just the middle - 6465 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
I forgot quotes - 6539 entries
Oops.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 7709 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
Words in parens - 8573 entries
We should all ace this, right?
Vice versa - 3767 entries
Little role switching.
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 392 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
Swap values - 2018 entries
Well, swap the values...
Every other line - 1059 entries
AaAaAaA
Simple text editing with Vim - 8832 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
Split line with dots - 1355 entries
This line is too long, split it.
Collect List - 2343 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
Basic renumbering - 3104 entries
Renumbering Basic.
Copy three lines - 976 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
V to the i - 2809 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
Order and join - 417 entries
There's something special about the input order.
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5074 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
-a-b-c- - 1939 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
attr_aligner - 2505 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
switch variable - 3659 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
quotes inside quotes - 2375 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 :)
That hyphen - 1530 entries
"vim vi improved"
C Reformatting - 440 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
Combines all items - 193 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
Search and Replace 0 - 3431 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
Extract argument from function - 1594 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
Align commas - 524 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.
comments galore - 701 entries
Basic comment reformatting
Don't know what this is - 1320 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
Space out the alphabet - 1025 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
Scrambled numbers - 514 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
Paragraph breaks - 310 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
replacing each line of a block selection - 2130 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
From A to B - 409 entries
Mirror and change this text block
Format java properties - 49 entries
Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".
Make HTML List - 680 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
Vertical Limit - 1724 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 153 entries
Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2252 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
Fix the XML - 728 entries
The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.
Letter case trickery - 1244 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.
Saving the hashes(#) - 1418 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.
Switch function arguments - 1582 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
Mirror Symmetry - 603 entries
Add backslashes.
Alsa configuration - 408 entries
I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!
Paragraph sort - 257 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
Count both ways - 791 entries
Right AND down.
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 852 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
camel riding - 617 entries
add a prefix on some camelCase variables
Make it more readable - 1564 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
Mess in revision history - 834 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
Numbering a List - 1573 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
Where should I put the Newline? - 738 entries
Help me put the newline.
Wrap text in quotes - 218 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1149 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
Condensed Cases - 609 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.
Generate a list of numbers - 192 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
Hole-in-one - 894 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.
Shebangs for all - 1456 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.
Sort files from hosts - 104 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
Pretty multi-line bash - 167 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
Gray area - 532 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
Replace and keep the case - 290 entries
Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.
Change attribute to getter - 71 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
remove dupes from array - 1066 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
7th Birthday - 117 entries
We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.
Two become one - 586 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
Change the content of a string - 1149 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 805 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
Mute the second method of this script - 376 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
The Cake is a Lie - 1057 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
Angular naming conventions - 246 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!
Append semicolon after expressions - 790 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
Sort and add attributes - 1003 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 981 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!
Extract HTML option values from tag values - 48 entries
Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.
Reconstruct the Sentence - 944 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
lipsum lines - 221 entries
Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.
Start coding format - 81 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
Exchanging Quotes - 696 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
Add to end of each line... kinda - 239 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?
Happy TvvO - 316 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
Make Fancy Header - 830 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
Line 'em up! - 242 entries
It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!
Lisp Condense - 341 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
A grid of punctuation - 98 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
readability - 254 entries
Make the code readable by adding some spaces
Flodder-challenge - 770 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
A Simple One - 761 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
ASCII box - 266 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 749 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.
120 Degrees - 323 entries
Rotate that triangle.
The name of the game - 529 entries
End up with the name of the game.
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 592 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
VimGolfNight - 416 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
Array of characters - 90 entries
We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.
underscore_to_camelCase - 127 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
Remove noise from HTTP log - 533 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
Logging with key - 235 entries
Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key
Mirrored text - 125 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
Reverse Simple Deletion - 649 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
Swap assigned value - 442 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
HTML to Haml - 629 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
Assignment Alignment - 628 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 129 entries
Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.
Minimalist Limerick - 419 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
lamb had a little Mary - 422 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
Prefixes and suffixes - 412 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
Braces or Brackets? - 602 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 133 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.
Shuffle puzzle - 269 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.
The meaning - 462 entries
Numbers are fun!
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 30 entries
I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!
Vim tetris - 286 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
Shuffled numbers - 183 entries
Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.
vim = 22 / 7 - 369 entries
pi square vim
imports alignment (python) - 536 entries
Align as one import per line.
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.
Ruby 1.9 compat - 525 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!
Inner hyphens - 96 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
Counting in binary - 306 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
Vim's not included features - 136 entries
Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.
Delete unwanted lines - 303 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
Remove semicolons after expressions - 389 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
Reverse characters in a line - 500 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
Remember FizzBuzz? - 499 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
Pairs of numbers - 302 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
vim1001 - 206 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
Going underground.... - 268 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
Free hyphen! - 91 entries
Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?
Reverse and double space - 385 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
Reformat most common surnames - 483 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 205 entries
Just testing.
Reformat some Python - 472 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
Stairs Indenting - 334 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
Restore order to the alphabet - 138 entries
The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.
Sorting database text output - 163 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?
NATO phonetic alphabet - 335 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
Sorting a glossary - 87 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.
A simple change - 317 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 389 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!
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 445 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
Interweave two blocks of text - 419 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?
Replacing some words - 370 entries
How fast could it be?
Reformat a C golf submission - 435 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
Add fold markers to a .c file - 426 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
Increment, increment, increment.... - 424 entries
Vim likes macros
Sorting paragraphs - 420 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
Context insensitive completion 0 - 416 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.
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 301 entries
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 302 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."
learn vim in short time - 161 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
Line Zipper - 371 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
Case preserving word replacement - 373 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 173 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
Wget failed to download redirections - 142 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.
Indentation - 381 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
Shift down - 149 entries
Number words are back.
Double and switch - 25 entries
Aaaanother case switcher
Reverse and count - 369 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 - 365 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 363 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
Refactor static member invocation - 148 entries
Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.
Generate English Alphabets - 358 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
Manual SQL - 86 entries
Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.
Suffix sort - 151 entries
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
remove all lines in first part - 114 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!
Hatsuyume - 342 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 337 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 214 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!
increment by column in XML - 120 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
Sort entries based on date - 279 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
Interleave lines - 109 entries
This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!
Fun With The Diagonal - 59 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
abcd > a b c d - 220 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
ASCII Art - 58 entries
how good are you with simple regex?
Subtraction - 137 entries
Solve the equations.
Create Leading Zeros - 174 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
Readable Rubyhash - 215 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!
Table Reshuffle - 302 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
Enumerate words - 207 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
Pretty format for variable declarations - 117 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
Reformat long lines - 298 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
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.
Get rid of html tags - 297 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
Number an outline - 178 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
The holy-grail may help - 275 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
Word frequency alignment - 185 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...
Alphabetize the directory - 240 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
Change your calendar - 181 entries
Happy New Year!
Deleting folded text - 260 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.
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!
Compile C - 255 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
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
Python to Ruby - 183 entries
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
swap or reverse - 77 entries
Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.
Assign numbers to fields - 67 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
Winning streak - 90 entries
Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.
Test everything! - 95 entries
... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.
Assign list - 145 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
expand a list comprehension (python) - 235 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
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?
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
Fix the Haiku - 237 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
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 !
Prime Numbers - 233 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 230 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
Block Fun 1 - 158 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
Refactor arguments into object argument - 150 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
Java Array2List - 210 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
Separating firstname & lastname - 76 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
Dehamlizing - 155 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
Shuffle and Sort - 159 entries
The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be
Piphilology - 102 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 - 195 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
Winding path - 81 entries
It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.
Round Round - 198 entries
Round Round
Recursively Palindrome - 191 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 196 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
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.
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 176 entries
Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.
Sudoku table - 50 entries
Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.
Fill visual area - 66 entries
Just have fun!
constructor - 161 entries
coding a constructor for a simple class
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 191 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
Refactoring useless Method away - 72 entries
Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 188 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
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.
Groups magic - 129 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
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.
SQL to YAML - 32 entries
Should be easy with vim, or not?
Complete the hex array data - 174 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
Inconsistent real estate paste - 140 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
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.
Turn this csv list into queries - 180 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
Multiplication table. - 168 entries
Create a multiplication table.
Cartesian product - 178 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
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.
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))
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 86 entries
Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.
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/
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.
Land of the Lost - 57 entries
Enter the tabs below the lyrics
ascii-art diamond - 20 entries
Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.
O Christmas Tree - 88 entries
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
Almost encrypted - 161 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
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.
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?
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries
Implementing the methods of a Java Interface
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.
Checkerboard case pattern - 105 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
Solve the Sokoban - 150 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
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
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)
CSV to JSON - 141 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
Lower cased and dashed strings - 36 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 ;)
Ninjas Leaderboard - 79 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.
Create bison tokens - 30 entries
Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words
Roman numerals - 57 entries
Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.
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.
Calculate the table totals - 105 entries
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
Overall Vimgolf Rank - 133 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.
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...
Square numbers - 48 entries
Boring math puzzle.
SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 93 entries
Move the pipes so they match the output.
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.
Happy New Year! - 126 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
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]
Format the output - 95 entries
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
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?
paste indent correction - JS - 75 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
Tiny column alignment - 37 entries
Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!
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?
It's a factor - 75 entries
Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.
Not enough Ps - 38 entries
Different type of code
Execute immediate SQL - 72 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
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*
C to VimDict - 38 entries
Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.
Linear congruential generator - 103 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
Remove Accent off the Letter - 100 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
Lookahead and Lookbehind - 62 entries
Look everywhere
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.
Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 57 entries
Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.
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.
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.
Transposition - 64 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
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"!
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.
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.
Flip the chessboard - 64 entries
White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 83 entries
Same class but reverse!
SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 66 entries
Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)
Before there was Farmville... - 90 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
Create an alphabet diamond - 67 entries
Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...
Binary and Increment - 32 entries
Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.
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.
Sierpinski's Triangle - 62 entries
Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.
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.
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 58 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.)
Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 61 entries
Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.
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!
Dumb to smart - 78 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
fib.c cleanup - 53 entries
cleanup the file
Here, piggy, piggy... - 75 entries
Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...
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!
Enharmonic Equivalents - 52 entries
Transform # and b to digraphs
Recursive Cowsay - 41 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
Permutations N=4 - 38 entries
Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !
Coordinates placeholder - 47 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.
Maze path - 19 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.
Chinese Multiplication Table - 46 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.
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.
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.)
Return the cow - 66 entries
This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.
50 factorials mod 97 - 23 entries
List 1! to 50!, but give your answer mod 97.
Config Sections - 25 entries
Section me!
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...
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!
Simple Maths - 24 entries
Not much to say, discover by yourself!
un-C-escape string - 51 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
Untangle my tail, please! - 36 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?
Across-Down Flip - 37 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
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.
Extended Customer 2 - 39 entries
Format the chars
Under the cupola - 34 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!)
XML to JSON - 40 entries
Convert this xml file into json.
Sort by your own sum - 41 entries
Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.
maximun and minimun - 43 entries
Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.
Greek Letters - 39 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!
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!
Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 14 entries
Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.
Fibonacci Triangles - 36 entries
Triangles
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
range(10) digit rotation - 19 entries
This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..
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.
Conway sequence - 17 entries
Generate the the first fifteen numbers. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence
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!
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.)
Acute accents - 19 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'.