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vim = 22 / 7 - 472 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 33
Position: #98 / 134
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 985 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: 44
Position: #211 / 378
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 643 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #18 / 253
Number of attempts: 4

Cartesian product - 248 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 47
Position: #83 / 94
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1230 / 3957
Number of attempts: 5

Groups magic - 158 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #76 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 290 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #51 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 598 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 66
Position: #161 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #177 / 446
Number of attempts: 4

Saving the hashes(#) - 2048 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #284 / 478
Number of attempts: 8

Vertical Limit - 2522 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #617 / 751
Number of attempts: 3

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 247 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #64 / 71
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2117 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #525 / 657
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1292 / 1743
Number of attempts: 4

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 998 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 42
Position: #124 / 190
Number of attempts: 2

Line Zipper - 471 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #150 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1347 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #284 / 334
Number of attempts: 1

Case preserving word replacement - 454 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 35
Position: #175 / 180
Number of attempts: 1

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 166 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #41 / 69
Number of attempts: 3

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #150 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 33
Position: #122 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 39
Position: #101 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

Overall Vimgolf Rank - 216 entries

Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 74
Position: #58 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1926 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #291 / 650
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1228 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: 16
Position: #287 / 403
Number of attempts: 3

Assignment Alignment - 875 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #78 / 218
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 1961 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: 12
Position: #96 / 506
Number of attempts: 11

A Simple One - 1033 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: #149 / 656
Number of attempts: 2

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 310 entries

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

Best score: 106
Best player score: 122
Position: #47 / 144
Number of attempts: 3

Table Reshuffle - 407 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 46
Position: #126 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 470 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: 43
Position: #165 / 175
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 compat - 624 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #164 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #231 / 457
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #232 / 405
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 510 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 38
Position: #115 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

Hatsuyume - 489 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 30
Position: #132 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1324 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #471 / 521
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the Haiku - 293 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: 49
Position: #95 / 112
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 558 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: 7
Position: #34 / 242
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 387 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #37 / 135
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 494 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #171 / 243
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #44 / 146
Number of attempts: 5

Make Fancy Header - 1045 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #166 / 342
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat some Python - 604 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 45
Position: #141 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1536 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #422 / 576
Number of attempts: 2

Deleting folded text - 348 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #70 / 115
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #155 / 551
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1467 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: 21
Position: #164 / 403
Number of attempts: 7

Flodder-challenge - 1219 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #183 / 327
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 12616 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #2017 / 3650
Number of attempts: 8

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6821 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 37
Position: #490 / 1671
Number of attempts: 3