VimGolf12264 active golfers, 104176 entries, 268 challenges
Open VimGolf challenges
Just the middle - 1245 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
I forgot quotes - 1335 entries
Oops.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 4922 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
ASCII box - 127 entries
Don't forget to fix typos!
Mute the second method of this script - 132 entries
prepend a # infront of every line of the second method
Space out the alphabet - 119 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
Words in parens - 5880 entries
We should all ace this, right?
Sorting database text output - 97 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?
Basic renumbering - 898 entries
Renumbering Basic.
V to the i - 1125 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
Simple text editing with Vim - 7037 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
That hyphen - 638 entries
"vim vi improved"
-a-b-c- - 724 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
Extract argument from function - 1003 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
Condensed Cases - 334 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.
Happy TvvO - 175 entries
Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.
attr_aligner - 1629 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
Don't know what this is - 703 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
quotes inside quotes - 1750 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 :)
Count both ways - 450 entries
Right AND down.
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 4289 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
switch variable - 2863 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
Gray area - 314 entries
It's a golf metaphor or something.
Winning streak - 68 entries
Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.
Where should I put the Newline? - 548 entries
Help me put the newline.
Wget failed to download redirections - 107 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.
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 475 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
Search and Replace 0 - 2727 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
Mess in revision history - 606 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
Letter case trickery - 946 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.
increment by column in XML - 96 entries
modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string
replacing each line of a block selection - 1742 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
Separating firstname & lastname - 53 entries
Seperate named with equal tabs.
Two become one - 485 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
Lisp Condense - 286 entries
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
Saving the hashes(#) - 1103 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.
Vertical Limit - 1316 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
Hole-in-one - 794 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.
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 1978 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
Switch function arguments - 1258 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
Make it more readable - 1324 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
120 Degrees - 233 entries
Rotate that triangle.
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 941 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 20 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!
Refactoring useless Method away - 70 entries
Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement
Pretty format for variable declarations - 97 entries
Project standards demand the equal signs must be aligned for better readability.
Numbering a List - 1379 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
Shuffle puzzle - 233 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.
vim1001 - 154 entries
change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )
Test everything! - 71 entries
... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.
Shift down - 107 entries
Number words are back.
Refactor static member invocation - 128 entries
Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.
learn vim in short time - 108 entries
so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 166 entries
Just testing.
Shebangs for all - 1239 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.
50 factorials mod 97 - 15 entries
List 1! to 50!, but give your answer mod 97.
remove dupes from array - 934 entries
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 648 entries
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
Greek column realign - 29 entries
Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*
Vim tetris - 265 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
Suffix sort - 132 entries
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
Change the content of a string - 1047 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
C to VimDict - 36 entries
Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.
Append semicolon after expressions - 659 entries
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 148 entries
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
VimGolfNight - 348 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
Sort and add attributes - 932 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
Exchanging Quotes - 628 entries
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
The Cake is a Lie - 916 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 882 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 - 870 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
Going underground.... - 253 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 105 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!
Split the words - 273 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.
Change name of a variable - 118 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.
Winding path - 72 entries
It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.
Subtraction - 112 entries
Solve the equations.
The name of the game - 454 entries
End up with the name of the game.
Binary and Increment - 30 entries
Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.
Minimalist Limerick - 380 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
Make Fancy Header - 748 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
Flodder-challenge - 743 entries
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
Delete unwanted lines - 281 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
Counting in binary - 275 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
Pairs of numbers - 282 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
Swap assigned value - 374 entries
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 52 entries
Implementing the methods of a Java Interface
Square numbers - 33 entries
Boring math puzzle.
A Simple One - 705 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
Remove noise from HTTP log - 457 entries
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
lamb had a little Mary - 368 entries
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
vim = 22 / 7 - 336 entries
pi square vim
Prefixes and suffixes - 344 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 493 entries
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 668 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.
JSON string rotation - 33 entries
Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!
The meaning - 435 entries
Numbers are fun!
HTML to Haml - 576 entries
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
Braces or Brackets? - 581 entries
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
Reverse Simple Deletion - 576 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
Do you speak Spanish ? - 51 entries
Do you write often in Spanish? If so, use digraph to insert the inverse question mark.
Assignment Alignment - 559 entries
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
Stairs Indenting - 312 entries
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
Reverse and double space - 360 entries
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
Remove semicolons after expressions - 344 entries
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
imports alignment (python) - 495 entries
Align as one import per line.
you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 293 entries
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
Ruby 1.9 compat - 496 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!
A simple change - 263 entries
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
Roman numerals - 53 entries
Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.
PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 378 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!
Replacing some words - 354 entries
How fast could it be?
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 276 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."
Create Leading Zeros - 154 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
NATO phonetic alphabet - 269 entries
Transform the series of words into a list.
Comparing scores - 56 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.
Reformat some Python - 443 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
Reformat most common surnames - 439 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
Reverse characters in a line - 429 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
Config Sections - 25 entries
Section me!
Number an outline - 172 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
Reformat a C golf submission - 418 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 416 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
Remember FizzBuzz? - 414 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
Add fold markers to a .c file - 408 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 191 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!
Line Zipper - 355 entries
Zip/pair related lines.
Context insensitive completion 0 - 389 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.
abcd > a b c d - 206 entries
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
Case preserving word replacement - 354 entries
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
Simple Maths - 21 entries
Not much to say, discover by yourself!
Top X - 151 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
Sorting paragraphs - 378 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
Readable Rubyhash - 202 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!
Interweave two blocks of text - 338 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?
Piphilology - 83 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
Insert a Markdown link - 360 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
Indentation - 360 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 86 entries
Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.
Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 17 entries
Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!
Assign list - 142 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
Enumerate words - 186 entries
Enumerate the unique words in order.
Word frequency alignment - 180 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...
Change your calendar - 179 entries
Happy New Year!
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 346 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
range(10) digit rotation - 12 entries
This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..
Sort entries based on date - 276 entries
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
Reverse and count - 344 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
Increment, increment, increment.... - 335 entries
Vim likes macros
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 327 entries
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
Generate English Alphabets - 328 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 156 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?
Python to Ruby - 182 entries
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
Hatsuyume - 319 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
O Christmas Tree - 85 entries
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
Refactor arguments into object argument - 148 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
Reformat long lines - 296 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
Table Reshuffle - 288 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
Get rid of html tags - 285 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
Alphabetize the directory - 236 entries
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 180 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
Block Fun 1 - 144 entries
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
The holy-grail may help - 264 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 47 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.
Draw the Go board - 107 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))
Deleting folded text - 253 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.
Dehamlizing - 151 entries
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
expand a list comprehension (python) - 233 entries
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
Shuffle and Sort - 148 entries
The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be
Circle in a square - 116 entries
Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.
REDRUM - 119 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.
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 227 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 145 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.
Fix the Haiku - 220 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
Compile C - 219 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
Define to require - 108 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.
Java Array2List - 205 entries
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
Inconsistent real estate paste - 137 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
Groups magic - 111 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 175 entries
Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.
constructor - 153 entries
coding a constructor for a simple class
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 118 entries
Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.
Prime Numbers - 201 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
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/
Sort the cardinal numbers - 183 entries
Maybe a simple challenge.
Ninjas Leaderboard - 65 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.
SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 112 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 - 102 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?
formatted text to markdown - 168 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.
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 185 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
Checkerboard case pattern - 99 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 184 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
Multiplication table. - 166 entries
Create a multiplication table.
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 181 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
Round Round - 181 entries
Round Round
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 113 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?
Recursively Palindrome - 173 entries
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
Complete the hex array data - 166 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
Turn this csv list into queries - 178 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
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)
Cartesian product - 172 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
Extract text from xml - 91 entries
Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.
Five Pillars - 38 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.
paste indent correction - JS - 68 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
Almost encrypted - 157 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 92 entries
Move the pipes so they match the output.
Printable ASCII characters - 81 entries
From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.
Carriage return - 36 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!
It's a factor - 69 entries
Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.
Calculate the table totals - 97 entries
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
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
CSV to JSON - 141 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
Solve the Sokoban - 139 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
Lookahead and Lookbehind - 59 entries
Look everywhere
Execute immediate SQL - 69 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 52 entries
Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.
Format the output - 88 entries
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
Overall Vimgolf Rank - 128 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.
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.)
Getters & Setters: Java - 120 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...
Happy New Year! - 118 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
Word Blender - 117 entries
The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?
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.
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 105 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
Letters are numbers - 114 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?
Make the circuit grid! - 70 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.
Recursive Cowsay - 40 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
Create an alphabet diamond - 67 entries
Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...
Python: Lots of function arguments - 59 entries
The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.
SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 64 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.
Chucking wood - 57 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.)
SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 62 entries
Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)
Transposition - 55 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
Acute accents - 9 entries
Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.
Flip the chessboard - 54 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!
Linear congruential generator - 96 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
fib.c cleanup - 50 entries
cleanup the file
Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 55 entries
Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.
Permutations N=4 - 28 entries
Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !
Before there was Farmville... - 89 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
Chinese Multiplication Table - 44 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.
Sierpinski's Triangle - 53 entries
Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.
Add links to an existing HTML table - 48 entries
Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.
Remove Accent off the Letter - 85 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
Untangle my tail, please! - 29 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?
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.)
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 43 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.)
Under the cupola - 28 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!)
Coordinates placeholder - 40 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.
Extended Customer 2 - 37 entries
Format the chars
Dumb to smart - 76 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
Here, piggy, piggy... - 75 entries
Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...
Sort by your own sum - 39 entries
Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.
Fibonacci Triangles - 34 entries
Triangles
Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 37 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...
Enharmonic Equivalents - 40 entries
Transform # and b to digraphs
Presidential Sorting - 37 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!
un-C-escape string - 48 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
Across-Down Flip - 27 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
Greek Letters - 34 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!
Return the cow - 65 entries
This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.
XML to JSON - 33 entries
Convert this xml file into json.
199 Fibonacci Numbers - 29 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 - 35 entries
Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.
LaTeX to XML Math Delimiters - 26 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>"
Refactor to Helpers - 41 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.)
Change The Perspective - 20 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'.
Top VimGolf Ninjas - view leaderboard
#1 - Urtica dioica
@udioica
#2 - John Braxler
@braxler
#3 - Tim Chase
@gumnos
#4 - Petro Тrouq
@zulolosi
