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Add Go XML to structure tags - 152 entries
The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.
Hidden Message - 74 entries
Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.
Missing Library and a Typo - 856 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
Text to HTML Table - 171 entries
Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.
Simple addition - 307 entries
The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.
For all cases. - 141 entries
In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.
From argument to object - 1474 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
create arrows in a list - 103 entries
Add arrow at same distance
Stairstep digits - 376 entries
Remove the evens. Double the odds.
comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
Adam's challenge - 950 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
Nesting SASS - 261 entries
Move a block inside another block and indent it
Format java properties - 72 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_".
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
Extract HTML option values from tag values - 98 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.
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 63 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!
Combines all items - 303 entries
For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents
Change attribute to getter - 133 entries
Wrap attributes with a getter method.
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 231 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.
Double and switch - 37 entries
Aaaanother case switcher
Sort files from hosts - 179 entries
Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge
Order and join - 948 entries
There's something special about the input order.
Start coding format - 147 entries
I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }
7th Birthday - 186 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.
Every other line - 2886 entries
AaAaAaA
Paragraph breaks - 505 entries
Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.
C Reformatting - 688 entries
You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase
Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries
Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.
ascii-art diamond - 35 entries
Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.
Generate a list of numbers - 283 entries
Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.
A grid of punctuation - 124 entries
Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!
Array of characters - 150 entries
We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.
Paragraph sort - 430 entries
My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.
Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries
All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.
Copy three lines - 2839 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
Split line with dots - 2124 entries
This line is too long, split it.
Align commas - 1049 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.
From A to B - 564 entries
Mirror and change this text block
SQL to YAML - 45 entries
Should be easy with vim, or not?
One number per line - 18613 entries
Just give me the numbers.
Convert pasted text into Markdown - 21 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.
Scrambled numbers - 779 entries
Four is NOT 1. One is 1.
underscore_to_camelCase - 162 entries
Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.
Mirrored text - 163 entries
backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging
ASCII Art - 82 entries
how good are you with simple regex?
Fun With The Diagonal - 103 entries
change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase
Free hyphen! - 159 entries
Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?
Inner hyphens - 124 entries
Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.
Swap values - 4535 entries
Well, swap the values...
Sorting a glossary - 118 entries
Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.