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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 - 340 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 374
Position: #90 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 652 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #307 / 376
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #864 / 1578
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 930 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: #259 / 361
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1202 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: #114 / 394
Number of attempts: 3

CSV to JSON - 158 entries

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

Best score: 56
Best player score: 116
Position: #39 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1846 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: #231 / 486
Number of attempts: 9

A Simple One - 978 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 / 636
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 285 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 74
Position: #50 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 296 entries

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

Best score: 107
Best player score: 146
Position: #107 / 138
Number of attempts: 2

Table Reshuffle - 366 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 40
Position: #100 / 132
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 432 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: #75 / 168
Number of attempts: 4

Letters are numbers - 149 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: #13 / 73
Number of attempts: 3

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 236 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #7 / 85
Number of attempts: 8

Reverse Simple Deletion - 824 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #76 / 450
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 626 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #119 / 393
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 502 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #68 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

Indentation - 492 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #56 / 167
Number of attempts: 3

Hatsuyume - 442 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 29
Position: #109 / 173
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1266 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #53 / 506
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the Haiku - 272 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: #51 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 493 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: #149 / 230
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 362 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #114 / 131
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 444 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #21 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 196 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #8 / 144
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 996 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #10 / 335
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat some Python - 576 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #107 / 227
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat a C golf submission - 547 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: #188 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 701 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 30
Position: #224 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 613 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 39
Position: #144 / 193
Number of attempts: 3

Remember FizzBuzz? - 634 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 80
Position: #146 / 173
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 356 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #30 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1425 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #14 / 542
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1273 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #19 / 510
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1265 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #4 / 366
Number of attempts: 7

Braces or Brackets? - 779 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: #121 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3136 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #357 / 699
Number of attempts: 7

Flodder-challenge - 1006 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 34
Position: #100 / 294
Number of attempts: 6

Simple text editing with Vim - 11966 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #736 / 3503
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6336 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 36
Position: #387 / 1561
Number of attempts: 2

Behnam Esfahbod
Twitter: @zwnj

Software Engineer | Internationalization

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