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Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #152 / 1578
Number of attempts: 2

Sierpinski's Triangle - 82 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 36
Position: #18 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 593 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #120 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

REDRUM - 149 entries

If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #24 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

Groups magic - 146 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: #31 / 88
Number of attempts: 2

Sort by your own sum - 69 entries

Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 32
Position: #7 / 27
Number of attempts: 1

Sort by sum of numbers in a line(?) - 55 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: 16
Position: #18 / 35
Number of attempts: 1

Readable Rubyhash - 243 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: 25
Position: #13 / 91
Number of attempts: 3

Dehamlizing - 177 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 45
Position: #54 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Changing URL path in CSS - 123 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: 45
Position: #33 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Checkerboard case pattern - 144 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #20 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

NATO phonetic alphabet - 498 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #141 / 189
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffle and Sort - 201 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 27
Position: #44 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Printable ASCII characters - 120 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 36
Position: #22 / 40
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 434 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #61 / 187
Number of attempts: 1

Extract text from xml - 106 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 35
Position: #13 / 43
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 398 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: #29 / 186
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 643 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #21 / 353
Number of attempts: 1

Chucking wood - 103 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: #11 / 45
Number of attempts: 2

Stairs Indenting - 442 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #26 / 191
Number of attempts: 4

Unwrap the text of an email message - 182 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: 24
Position: #40 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Flip the chessboard - 77 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: 21
Position: #10 / 29
Number of attempts: 2

Make the circuit grid! - 83 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: 29
Position: #36 / 46
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 801 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #56 / 221
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 2901 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #293 / 759
Number of attempts: 2

Switch function arguments - 2019 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #202 / 637
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 986 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #12 / 397
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 475 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #24 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 675 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: 16
Position: #150 / 266
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 602 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #167 / 253
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5012 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #13 / 1728
Number of attempts: 2

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 953 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 35
Position: #101 / 184
Number of attempts: 2

Replacing some words - 418 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #66 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 284 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #19 / 143
Number of attempts: 2

formatted text to markdown - 181 entries

You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.

Best score: 70
Best player score: 79
Position: #39 / 66
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #317 / 636
Number of attempts: 2

Line Zipper - 449 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #150 / 209
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1324 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: 18
Position: #88 / 328
Number of attempts: 5

Alphabetize the directory - 281 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #33 / 98
Number of attempts: 3

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 505 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: 24
Position: #31 / 146
Number of attempts: 2

Sort entries based on date - 359 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #51 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor to Helpers - 45 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: 286
Position: #11 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 657 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #83 / 194
Number of attempts: 4

HTML to Haml - 838 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #82 / 201
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat long lines - 336 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: 17
Position: #63 / 130
Number of attempts: 4

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: 14
Position: #208 / 394
Number of attempts: 4

Assignment Alignment - 824 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #23 / 215
Number of attempts: 5

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: 12
Position: #118 / 486
Number of attempts: 2

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: 121
Position: #41 / 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: 29
Position: #59 / 132
Number of attempts: 3

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: 22
Position: #34 / 168
Number of attempts: 5

Ruby 1.9 compat - 608 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: #27 / 229
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 824 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #218 / 450
Number of attempts: 1

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #207 / 393
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1266 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #322 / 506
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: 7
Position: #63 / 230
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: #99 / 510
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #166 / 366
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3136 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #35 / 699
Number of attempts: 7

Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #877 / 3502
Number of attempts: 1