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Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 401 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 374
Position: #99 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 868 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #372 / 451
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #922 / 1674
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1048 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.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 45
Position: #283 / 398
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 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!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #125 / 419
Number of attempts: 3

CSV to JSON - 178 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 116
Position: #41 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2103 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.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #252 / 533
Number of attempts: 9

A Simple One - 1091 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #19 / 680
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 328 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 74
Position: #54 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 329 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 146
Position: #114 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

Table Reshuffle - 468 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 40
Position: #110 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 501 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #84 / 181
Number of attempts: 4

Letters are numbers - 179 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?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #16 / 78
Number of attempts: 3

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 280 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #7 / 92
Number of attempts: 8

Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #82 / 466
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 706 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #139 / 416
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 565 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #76 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Indentation - 575 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #62 / 183
Number of attempts: 3

Hatsuyume - 582 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 29
Position: #127 / 194
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #54 / 543
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the Haiku - 331 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 40
Position: #55 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 605 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.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 9
Position: #171 / 255
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 454 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #124 / 146
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 532 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #21 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 211 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #8 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #12 / 356
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat some Python - 657 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #119 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat a C golf submission - 678 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 48
Position: #208 / 220
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 844 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 30
Position: #251 / 282
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 834 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 39
Position: #177 / 238
Number of attempts: 3

Remember FizzBuzz? - 818 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 80
Position: #172 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 463 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #49 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1799 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #14 / 655
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1591 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #19 / 615
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1745 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #20 / 457
Number of attempts: 7

Braces or Brackets? - 1201 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 44
Position: #161 / 362
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4044 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #448 / 862
Number of attempts: 7

Flodder-challenge - 1500 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 34
Position: #137 / 378
Number of attempts: 6

Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #826 / 3902
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 36
Position: #437 / 1889
Number of attempts: 2

Behnam Esfahbod
Twitter: @zwnj

Software Engineer | Internationalization

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