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Transposition - 66 entries
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
ascii-art diamond - 33 entries
Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.
Flip the chessboard - 66 entries
White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.
Dumb to smart - 81 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 66 entries
Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)
Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 64 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.)
Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 58 entries
Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.
Flatten repo - 22 entries
For each git repository (<project> tag) translate name attribute to flatten directory structure. Add path attribute if missing (because checkout hierarchy must be kept). #xml
SQL to YAML - 33 entries
Should be easy with vim, or not?
Remove hard line breaks - 41 entries
Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.
Back to the Future - 3 entries
We can't just time-travel around without first making sure our code is pretty and columns are aligned. And keeping lines with at most 80 characters should help if we ever need to review the code while we're stuck in the past. This is my first challenge. I tried being creative and even did a bit of research, so I hope you enjoy it.
Here, piggy, piggy... - 75 entries
Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...
Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 20 entries
Convert from one format to another
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.
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.
Create bison tokens - 34 entries
Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words
Greek column realign - 41 entries
Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*
Binary and Increment - 41 entries
Some numbers fun: not only increasing numbers but also increasing binary.
Return the cow - 71 entries
This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.
fib.c cleanup - 56 entries
cleanup the file
Tiny column alignment - 37 entries
Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!
Recursive Cowsay - 49 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
C to VimDict - 38 entries
Convert a C data structure to a Vimscript dictionary.
Coordinates placeholder - 52 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.
JSON string rotation - 38 entries
Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!
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.
Chinese Multiplication Table - 50 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.
Enharmonic Equivalents - 52 entries
Transform # and b to digraphs
Greek Letters - 50 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!
Maze path - 32 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.
Carriage return - 41 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!
Untangle my tail, please! - 44 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.)
un-C-escape string - 53 entries
Convert escape sequences to characters
Sort with uniq OpenEmbedded package names - 33 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!
Presidential Sorting - 46 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!
Under the cupola - 41 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!)
Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 31 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.
Extended Customer 2 - 44 entries
Format the chars
Custom McCarthy sequence - 31 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
Across-Down Flip - 42 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
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...
range(10) digit rotation - 32 entries
This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..
maximun and minimun - 45 entries
Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.
Fibonacci Triangles - 41 entries
Triangles
Sort by your own sum - 42 entries
Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.
XML to JSON - 41 entries
Convert this xml file into json.
Hail to Alekseï Pajitnov - 30 entries
Wanna play tetris? Don't panic, it's quite long but there's no piece rotation. Little advice: source the file, Luke!
Palindrome numbers - 15 entries
For each number compute its associated palindrome. First number (first line) has been eaten! #prime
Simple Maths - 30 entries
Not much to say, discover by yourself!