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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 - 344 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 374
Position: #92 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #314 / 386
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #869 / 1585
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 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: #261 / 364
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: #115 / 401
Number of attempts: 3

CSV to JSON - 172 entries

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

Best score: 56
Best player score: 116
Position: #39 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1912 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: #237 / 500
Number of attempts: 9

A Simple One - 1001 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 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 287 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 74
Position: #51 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 303 entries

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

Best score: 106
Best player score: 146
Position: #109 / 141
Number of attempts: 2

Table Reshuffle - 371 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 40
Position: #101 / 134
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and count - 456 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: #78 / 172
Number of attempts: 4

Letters are numbers - 150 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 - 237 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

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

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #76 / 454
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #126 / 401
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #68 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Indentation - 497 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #56 / 168
Number of attempts: 3

Hatsuyume - 457 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 29
Position: #111 / 175
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #53 / 512
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the Haiku - 275 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 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 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: #151 / 232
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 365 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #114 / 132
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #21 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 198 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 - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #10 / 338
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat some Python - 579 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 42
Position: #108 / 229
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat a C golf submission - 559 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: #190 / 200
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 709 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: #225 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 39
Position: #149 / 198
Number of attempts: 3

Remember FizzBuzz? - 654 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 80
Position: #150 / 177
Number of attempts: 1

Get rid of html tags - 368 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #31 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #14 / 558
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #19 / 529
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 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 / 384
Number of attempts: 7

Braces or Brackets? - 884 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: #131 / 288
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #379 / 736
Number of attempts: 7

Flodder-challenge - 1117 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 34
Position: #107 / 311
Number of attempts: 6

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #749 / 3581
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 36
Position: #393 / 1616
Number of attempts: 2

Behnam Esfahbod
Twitter: @zwnj

Software Engineer | Internationalization

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