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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #151 / 7474
Number of attempts: 6

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 846 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 11
Position: #414 / 437
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #103 / 1637
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #56 / 4230
Number of attempts: 3

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #72 / 215
Number of attempts: 3

Array of characters - 175 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #24 / 47
Number of attempts: 5

Cartesian product - 266 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 34
Position: #60 / 99
Number of attempts: 3

increment by column in XML - 152 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #13 / 55
Number of attempts: 3

range(10) digit rotation - 38 entries

This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #2 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #54 / 4202
Number of attempts: 5

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 257 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #20 / 104
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #11 / 301
Number of attempts: 5

Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #6 / 438
Number of attempts: 4

Shuffle puzzle - 346 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #8 / 104
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #281 / 3700
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #3652 / 3977
Number of attempts: 2

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #39 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 55
Position: #223 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #297 / 780
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #2 / 1754
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #2 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 77
Position: #37 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #118 / 652
Number of attempts: 3

Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #102 / 216
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #82 / 150
Number of attempts: 3

Complete the hex array data - 197 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #23 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Case preserving word replacement - 456 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: 19
Position: #6 / 181
Number of attempts: 2

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: 22
Position: #12 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Sort entries based on date - 405 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #3 / 118
Number of attempts: 3

Refactor to Helpers - 50 entries

This Rails partial is almost all template escapes. Put it into a helper, and refactor each case to methods so we can build out the controls for each. (I've converted to tabs - fighting with Vimgolf's default config shouldn't be part of the challenge.)

Best score: 147
Best player score: 855
Position: #24 / 25
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 36
Position: #174 / 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: #126 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 49
Position: #167 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

expand a list comprehension (python) - 334 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 73
Position: #103 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 367 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #3 / 136
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1940 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #158 / 656
Number of attempts: 2

Java Array2List - 233 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 84
Position: #22 / 87
Number of attempts: 4

The holy-grail may help - 389 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #73 / 215
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1272 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: 12
Position: #19 / 412
Number of attempts: 8

Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #14 / 221
Number of attempts: 8

Shebangs for all - 2049 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: #105 / 523
Number of attempts: 8

A Simple One - 1067 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: #176 / 671
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and count - 486 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: 24
Position: #69 / 179
Number of attempts: 7

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #188 / 463
Number of attempts: 3

Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #191 / 413
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1386 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #88 / 537
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 592 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: #43 / 250
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 441 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #47 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #59 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1075 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #37 / 349
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3852 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #494 / 829
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #2 / 3810
Number of attempts: 8

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 36
Position: #426 / 1825
Number of attempts: 8

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