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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 342 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 39
Position: #14 / 101
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: 5
Position: #130 / 386
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #169 / 1585
Number of attempts: 3

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: 40
Position: #14 / 364
Number of attempts: 2

Return the cow - 71 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 52
Position: #2 / 28
Number of attempts: 1

Create Leading Zeros - 238 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #4 / 80
Number of attempts: 4

Sierpinski's Triangle - 83 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #1 / 25
Number of attempts: 5

Swap assigned value - 624 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #5 / 249
Number of attempts: 2

Cartesian product - 221 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #23 / 92
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 356 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #5 / 108
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12854 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #138 / 3945
Number of attempts: 5

fib.c cleanup - 66 entries

cleanup the file

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #6 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 77 entries

Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #3 / 40
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 189 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #3 / 73
Number of attempts: 6

Groups magic - 150 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: 14
Position: #17 / 90
Number of attempts: 2

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 58 entries

The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #2 / 36
Number of attempts: 2

abcd > a b c d - 280 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #12 / 218
Number of attempts: 1

Python: Lots of function arguments - 102 entries

The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #27 / 46
Number of attempts: 1

Readable Rubyhash - 244 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: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #5 / 92
Number of attempts: 4

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 96 entries

Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #1 / 36
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 180 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 34
Position: #7 / 69
Number of attempts: 3

Changing URL path in CSS - 129 entries

What's the quickest way to swap out all the URLs in a CSS file? Is it wasted keystrokes using look-behinds and look-aheads? (I'm sorry for the delete/report--I made a mistake with the last one requiring an ugly search for graphic to replace with images. I just intended this to be a simple search and replace that might possibly generate some macros or normals solutions that are quicker)

Best score: 40
Best player score: 40
Position: #4 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

Checkerboard case pattern - 148 entries

All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #5 / 58
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #122 / 191
Number of attempts: 3

Create a pandoc compatible table - 182 entries

In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #2 / 53
Number of attempts: 12

Shuffle and Sort - 209 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #3 / 65
Number of attempts: 9

Printable ASCII characters - 124 entries

From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #6 / 42
Number of attempts: 7

A simple change - 442 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #4 / 189
Number of attempts: 2

Add links to an existing HTML table - 77 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Best score: 42
Best player score: 43
Position: #4 / 29
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 134 entries

Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #2 / 51
Number of attempts: 7

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 169 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #27 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Presidential Sorting - 48 entries

Given a nice CSV formatted arrangement of the Presidents of the United States, we need to print out an alphabetical list in pretty columns. Prove that vim can conquer this basic Excel task!

Best score: 40
Best player score: 51
Position: #16 / 23
Number of attempts: 3

Convert regular pandoc footnotes to in-line notes - 63 entries

Pandoc extends markdown by allowing footnotes, which are usually represented with a footnote identifier followed later in the document by the footnote itself. But Pandoc also allows inline footnotes without identifiers. How many strokes does it take to convert regular footnotes to inline notes? (NB: I've had trouble figuring out whether text-width makes a difference to Vimgolf in comparing the input and output file. I finally tested this locally using the Vimgolf vimrc and did a "gq" on the entire buffer as the last step. Apologies if I'm making a newbie mistake. First time submitter.)

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #2 / 17
Number of attempts: 8

Extract text from xml - 109 entries

Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 29
Position: #6 / 44
Number of attempts: 3

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #8 / 188
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #10 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Complete the circuit grid! - 84 entries

Continuing from the last challenge, add additional rows to the grid. Change each of the names from 'A1'...'A10' to 'B1'...'B10', 'C1'...'C10', etc, and for each new row add 0.7 to the X values in the (X Y) at the end of each line.

Best score: 49
Best player score: 49
Position: #2 / 28
Number of attempts: 4

SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 71 entries

Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #1 / 31
Number of attempts: 5

lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #2 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #2 / 439
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 101 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #2 / 45
Number of attempts: 4

Chucking wood - 106 entries

An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)

Best score: 51
Best player score: 54
Position: #10 / 46
Number of attempts: 3

Stairs Indenting - 448 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #25 / 193
Number of attempts: 2

Unwrap the text of an email message - 185 entries

Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #5 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Python to Ruby - 196 entries

Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #3 / 59
Number of attempts: 6

maximun and minimun - 58 entries

Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.

Best score: 51
Best player score: 52
Position: #5 / 24
Number of attempts: 4

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 188 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #3 / 76
Number of attempts: 5

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 165 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #11 / 56
Number of attempts: 5

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 98 entries

A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #11 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Create an alphabet diamond - 81 entries

Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...

Best score: 40
Best player score: 40
Position: #3 / 30
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #4 / 441
Number of attempts: 2

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 337 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #1 / 111
Number of attempts: 3

Inconsistent real estate paste - 184 entries

Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #2 / 55
Number of attempts: 4

Enharmonic Equivalents - 56 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #2 / 35
Number of attempts: 3

Flip the chessboard - 78 entries

White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #3 / 30
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2437 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #112 / 736
Number of attempts: 5

Make the circuit grid! - 87 entries

Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #16 / 48
Number of attempts: 2

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 227 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: 17
Position: #15 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #26 / 225
Number of attempts: 8

replacing each line of a block selection - 2946 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #33 / 767
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2078 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #2 / 651
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #27 / 403
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and double space - 489 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #37 / 194
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #50 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

constructor - 180 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

Best score: 59
Best player score: 59
Position: #2 / 58
Number of attempts: 8

Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #43 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

un-C-escape string - 56 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #29 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5031 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #130 / 1735
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #145 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Format the output - 145 entries

Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.

Best score: 35
Best player score: 35
Position: #3 / 39
Number of attempts: 4

Calculate the table totals - 132 entries

Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #1 / 43
Number of attempts: 2

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #15 / 185
Number of attempts: 6

Replacing some words - 419 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #18 / 148
Number of attempts: 6

Multiplication table. - 205 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 42
Position: #7 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #26 / 640
Number of attempts: 6

Line Zipper - 450 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #96 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1336 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: 17
Position: #37 / 331
Number of attempts: 8

Alphabetize the directory - 283 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #10 / 99
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 507 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: 23
Position: #16 / 148
Number of attempts: 3

Complete the hex array data - 195 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #14 / 72
Number of attempts: 4

Sort entries based on date - 363 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #33 / 114
Number of attempts: 7

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 262 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #8 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #230 / 639
Number of attempts: 5

Solve the Sokoban - 164 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #2 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

The holy-grail may help - 345 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #116 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #44 / 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: 56
Position: #1 / 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: 12
Position: #120 / 500
Number of attempts: 4

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: #285 / 643
Number of attempts: 2

Round Round - 287 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #12 / 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: 108
Position: #9 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 371 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #2 / 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: 22
Position: #41 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

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: 23
Position: #4 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 237 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #25 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 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: 14
Position: #34 / 230
Number of attempts: 6

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #232 / 454
Number of attempts: 2

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #232 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #3 / 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: 23
Position: #23 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 457 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #24 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

Turn this csv list into queries - 204 entries

Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.

Best score: 98
Best player score: 98
Position: #1 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Dumb to smart - 96 entries

Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #4 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #127 / 512
Number of attempts: 3

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: 28
Position: #1 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 502 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: #72 / 231
Number of attempts: 3

Remove Accent off the Letter - 106 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 54
Position: #11 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 365 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #2 / 132
Number of attempts: 2

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 459 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #90 / 232
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 198 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #90 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Linear congruential generator - 129 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 30
Position: #21 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 579 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #23 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat a C golf submission - 552 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: 28
Position: #55 / 199
Number of attempts: 3

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: 13
Position: #48 / 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: 23
Position: #3 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 654 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 47
Position: #21 / 177
Number of attempts: 2

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: 25
Position: #191 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1474 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #82 / 557
Number of attempts: 2

Deleting folded text - 341 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: 18
Position: #12 / 113
Number of attempts: 5

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: #116 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 556 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #24 / 172
Number of attempts: 6

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1363 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: #54 / 383
Number of attempts: 2

Braces or Brackets? - 882 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #7 / 287
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3332 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #2 / 736
Number of attempts: 9

Flodder-challenge - 1117 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 27
Position: #3 / 311
Number of attempts: 10

Simple text editing with Vim - 12280 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #102 / 3579
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6555 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #32 / 1613
Number of attempts: 5

Contributed Challenges

Alphabetize the directory - 283 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Multiplication table. - 205 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Calculate the table totals - 132 entries

Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.

Create an alphabet diamond - 81 entries

Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 165 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

Create a pandoc compatible table - 182 entries

Conner McDaniel
Twitter: @connermcd

I'm a medical student, vim fanboy and general nerd.

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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 342 entries

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

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 entries

Return the cow - 71 entries

Create Leading Zeros - 238 entries

Sierpinski's Triangle - 83 entries

Swap assigned value - 624 entries

Cartesian product - 221 entries

Split the words - 356 entries

Words in parens - 12854 entries

fib.c cleanup - 66 entries

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 77 entries

Block Fun 1 - 189 entries

Groups magic - 150 entries

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 58 entries

abcd > a b c d - 280 entries

Python: Lots of function arguments - 102 entries

Readable Rubyhash - 244 entries

Circle of Fifths with Sharps - 96 entries

Dehamlizing - 180 entries

Changing URL path in CSS - 129 entries

Checkerboard case pattern - 148 entries

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Create a pandoc compatible table - 182 entries

Shuffle and Sort - 209 entries

Printable ASCII characters - 124 entries

A simple change - 442 entries

Add links to an existing HTML table - 77 entries

SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 134 entries

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 169 entries

Presidential Sorting - 48 entries

Convert regular pandoc footnotes to in-line notes - 63 entries

Extract text from xml - 109 entries

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 entries

The name of the game - 650 entries

Complete the circuit grid! - 84 entries

SFD-ROC: ASCII Logo Border - 71 entries

lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 101 entries

Chucking wood - 106 entries

Stairs Indenting - 448 entries

Unwrap the text of an email message - 185 entries

Python to Ruby - 196 entries

maximun and minimun - 58 entries

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 188 entries

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 165 entries

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 98 entries

Create an alphabet diamond - 81 entries

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 337 entries

Inconsistent real estate paste - 184 entries

Enharmonic Equivalents - 56 entries

Flip the chessboard - 78 entries

Vertical Limit - 2437 entries

Make the circuit grid! - 87 entries

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 227 entries

Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries

replacing each line of a block selection - 2946 entries

Switch function arguments - 2078 entries

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Reverse and double space - 489 entries

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 entries

constructor - 180 entries

Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries

un-C-escape string - 56 entries

switch variable - 5031 entries

The meaning - 558 entries

Format the output - 145 entries

Calculate the table totals - 132 entries

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries

Replacing some words - 419 entries

Multiplication table. - 205 entries

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Line Zipper - 450 entries

remove dupes from array - 1336 entries

Conner McDaniel
Twitter: @connermcd