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vim = 22 / 7 - 451 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 35
Position: #114 / 133
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4771 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #20 / 1887
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 705 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #333 / 398
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2337 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #577 / 750
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #211 / 1604
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #101 / 4174
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 52
Position: #235 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

Todo list specification - 389 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 39
Position: #120 / 178
Number of attempts: 3

Create Leading Zeros - 239 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 66
Position: #77 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #99 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

Hello ${world} - 300 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #71 / 95
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2407 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #215 / 445
Number of attempts: 4

Swap assigned value - 628 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #240 / 252
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 538 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #41 / 344
Number of attempts: 1

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 82 entries

Here you need complete 2 tasks: 1. Remove all unwanted continuous blank lines and leave only 1 blank line between paragraphs. 2. Properly capitalize the sentences.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 54
Position: #23 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 417 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #36 / 204
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #15 / 4166
Number of attempts: 3

vim1001 - 284 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #47 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1996 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #147 / 581
Number of attempts: 3

Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 87 entries

Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.

Best score: 102
Best player score: 262
Position: #33 / 33
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 349 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #31 / 127
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #589 / 3677
Number of attempts: 3

Counting in binary - 478 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 41
Position: #79 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1598 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #414 / 514
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3128 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #531 / 1073
Number of attempts: 2

Top X - 192 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #42 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Number an outline - 252 entries

The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 57
Position: #44 / 76
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #1872 / 3950
Number of attempts: 2

Pairs of numbers - 361 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 44
Position: #102 / 134
Number of attempts: 1

Assign list - 170 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 60
Position: #53 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 1017 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #271 / 303
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 398 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #92 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 167 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #65 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 519 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #73 / 173
Number of attempts: 4

Enumerate words - 251 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #60 / 90
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 599 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #134 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 184 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 53
Position: #61 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 654 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #103 / 359
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 596 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 38
Position: #112 / 164
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #271 / 443
Number of attempts: 4

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 194 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: 47
Position: #54 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 2008 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 29
Position: #318 / 476
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #51 / 442
Number of attempts: 6

Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #563 / 748
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 824 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #152 / 227
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2966 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #598 / 772
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2085 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #247 / 653
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1023 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #200 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 700 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: #84 / 272
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #148 / 1742
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1955 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #445 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1345 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: 23
Position: #206 / 333
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1869 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #518 / 646
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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: 15
Position: #267 / 402
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1917 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: 18
Position: #363 / 502
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #160 / 517
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 671 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #84 / 202
Number of attempts: 3

Remember FizzBuzz? - 686 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 61
Position: #116 / 184
Number of attempts: 3

Get rid of html tags - 378 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #85 / 222
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1502 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #122 / 567
Number of attempts: 6

Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #154 / 542
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 571 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 44
Position: #141 / 175
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1436 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: #204 / 397
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 930 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 46
Position: #162 / 295
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #331 / 758
Number of attempts: 6

Flodder-challenge - 1176 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 32
Position: #95 / 321
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1047 / 3626
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 35
Position: #345 / 1652
Number of attempts: 3

Eric Potter
Twitter: @pottereric

Technical Strategist for Aptera Software. Microsoft MVP.