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Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 822 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #107 / 429
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1276 / 1631
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #40 / 215
Number of attempts: 4

Create a pandoc compatible table - 214 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: 69
Position: #51 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #48 / 231
Number of attempts: 7

replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #620 / 779
Number of attempts: 8

Switch function arguments - 2162 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #531 / 669
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #169 / 199
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1300 / 1750
Number of attempts: 6

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #57 / 363
Number of attempts: 2

Format the output - 146 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: 55
Position: #28 / 40
Number of attempts: 2

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 79
Position: #187 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #114 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

formatted text to markdown - 184 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: 81
Position: #54 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #356 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 98 entries

Same class but reverse!

Best score: 79
Best player score: 144
Position: #33 / 39
Number of attempts: 1

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: 24
Position: #36 / 150
Number of attempts: 13

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: #42 / 181
Number of attempts: 9

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: #29 / 118
Number of attempts: 5

Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #232 / 655
Number of attempts: 7

Java Array2List - 233 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 184
Position: #81 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

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

Best score: 56
Best player score: 395
Position: #66 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1064 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: #269 / 670
Number of attempts: 3

Table Reshuffle - 450 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 38
Position: #101 / 144
Number of attempts: 3

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #238 / 413
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse characters in a line - 778 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: #45 / 268
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat most common surnames - 755 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 47
Position: #187 / 217
Number of attempts: 2

Get rid of html tags - 415 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 36
Position: #234 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1649 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #520 / 609
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1501 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #441 / 582
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1651 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #341 / 435
Number of attempts: 1

Braces or Brackets? - 1073 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 48
Position: #208 / 331
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3795 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #402 / 816
Number of attempts: 6

Flodder-challenge - 1369 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 56
Position: #332 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13122 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2209 / 3774
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7247 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 47
Position: #1268 / 1789
Number of attempts: 1

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