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Wget failed to download redirections - 181 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #54 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Prime Numbers - 340 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 43
Position: #42 / 100
Number of attempts: 10

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 664 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #111 / 379
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #159 / 1581
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11339 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #192 / 4157
Number of attempts: 6

Interweave two blocks of text - 615 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: #116 / 210
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 930 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: #13 / 361
Number of attempts: 6

Sierpinski's Triangle - 82 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 41
Position: #19 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 396 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #26 / 197
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15894 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #130 / 4153
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10607 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #664 / 3659
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12824 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #518 / 3939
Number of attempts: 3

Create a pandoc compatible table - 179 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: #4 / 52
Number of attempts: 5

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 157 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: 24
Position: #20 / 55
Number of attempts: 3

Create an alphabet diamond - 76 entries

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

Best score: 40
Best player score: 58
Position: #15 / 29
Number of attempts: 3

Inconsistent real estate paste - 179 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 34
Position: #25 / 54
Number of attempts: 2

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 218 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: #23 / 66
Number of attempts: 3

Exchanging Quotes - 801 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #46 / 221
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 2912 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #20 / 761
Number of attempts: 6

Switch function arguments - 2035 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #191 / 641
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 995 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #148 / 399
Number of attempts: 2

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: #8 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 677 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: #8 / 267
Number of attempts: 2

constructor - 178 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

Best score: 59
Best player score: 82
Position: #17 / 57
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 607 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #8 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

un-C-escape string - 55 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #16 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5016 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #97 / 1729
Number of attempts: 4

The meaning - 548 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #28 / 351
Number of attempts: 2

Format the output - 143 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: 42
Position: #14 / 38
Number of attempts: 5

Calculate the table totals - 129 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #12 / 42
Number of attempts: 5

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 953 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #53 / 184
Number of attempts: 7

Replacing some words - 418 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #41 / 147
Number of attempts: 5

Make it more readable - 1940 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #137 / 637
Number of attempts: 5

Line Zipper - 450 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #40 / 210
Number of attempts: 5

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: 29
Position: #290 / 328
Number of attempts: 3

Alphabetize the directory - 281 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #60 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 506 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: #13 / 147
Number of attempts: 8

Case preserving word replacement - 444 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: #41 / 178
Number of attempts: 4

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 151 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #28 / 67
Number of attempts: 3

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 386 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: 30
Position: #69 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

Before there was Farmville... - 95 entries

There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?

Best score: 156
Best player score: 162
Position: #5 / 46
Number of attempts: 5

Assignment Alignment - 824 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #26 / 215
Number of attempts: 6

A Simple One - 990 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: #270 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Round Round - 286 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #33 / 84
Number of attempts: 7

Table Reshuffle - 366 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #19 / 132
Number of attempts: 3

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 236 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #23 / 85
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: #31 / 229
Number of attempts: 5

Sorting paragraphs - 503 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #22 / 156
Number of attempts: 8

Indentation - 494 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #22 / 168
Number of attempts: 7

Hatsuyume - 442 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #34 / 173
Number of attempts: 5

Turn this csv list into queries - 203 entries

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

Best score: 98
Best player score: 100
Position: #9 / 94
Number of attempts: 5

The Cake is a Lie - 1278 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #330 / 509
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the Haiku - 273 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: 30
Position: #16 / 109
Number of attempts: 5

Context insensitive completion 0 - 500 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: #67 / 231
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 451 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #85 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

Linear congruential generator - 123 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 31
Position: #31 / 49
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 577 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #20 / 228
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat a C golf submission - 547 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: 26
Position: #34 / 198
Number of attempts: 6

Reverse characters in a line - 701 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: #41 / 248
Number of attempts: 4

PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 174 entries

According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #27 / 63
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 625 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #46 / 194
Number of attempts: 3

Remember FizzBuzz? - 639 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 49
Position: #28 / 173
Number of attempts: 6

Get rid of html tags - 356 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #185 / 213
Number of attempts: 4

Change the content of a string - 1442 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #74 / 546
Number of attempts: 3

Deleting folded text - 325 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: #9 / 111
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1287 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #103 / 515
Number of attempts: 3

Add fold markers to a .c file - 531 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: #19 / 167
Number of attempts: 5

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1281 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: #46 / 367
Number of attempts: 4

Braces or Brackets? - 805 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: #2 / 270
Number of attempts: 7

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3206 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #46 / 710
Number of attempts: 10

Flodder-challenge - 1038 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #45 / 298
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 12050 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #72 / 3530
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6374 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #14 / 1573
Number of attempts: 8

Rod Knowlton
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Sysadmin turned coder. That's not a bad thing, is it? I also crack wise on non-code things as @toldorknown