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Prime Numbers - 385 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 43
Position: #49 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 814 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #132 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #172 / 1631
Number of attempts: 4

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: #44 / 215
Number of attempts: 4

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1006 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: 41
Position: #54 / 383
Number of attempts: 4

Cartesian product - 266 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 38
Position: #78 / 99
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 200 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: #42 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 425 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: #33 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #34 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1616 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #153 / 447
Number of attempts: 4

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 115 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #23 / 47
Number of attempts: 2

Python to Ruby - 204 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #14 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 101 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: #25 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2564 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #617 / 759
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: 31
Position: #29 / 231
Number of attempts: 9

replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #41 / 779
Number of attempts: 10

Switch function arguments - 2152 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #41 / 667
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #28 / 420
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: 14
Position: #38 / 199
Number of attempts: 3

Remove semicolons after expressions - 663 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #45 / 264
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #132 / 1750
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #148 / 363
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: 13
Position: #27 / 652
Number of attempts: 6

Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #53 / 216
Number of attempts: 3

remove dupes from array - 1358 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: #42 / 336
Number of attempts: 7

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 289 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #9 / 102
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #119 / 655
Number of attempts: 4

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: #286 / 670
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 450 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #21 / 144
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 compat - 640 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: #35 / 236
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #246 / 461
Number of attempts: 1

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #243 / 413
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #45 / 165
Number of attempts: 9

The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #129 / 534
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 590 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: #75 / 249
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 441 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #3 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #91 / 248
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #91 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 627 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 40
Position: #93 / 240
Number of attempts: 3

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: #53 / 268
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat most common surnames - 755 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #56 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 742 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 49
Position: #37 / 194
Number of attempts: 8

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: 23
Position: #199 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1646 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #84 / 607
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1499 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #120 / 581
Number of attempts: 3

Add fold markers to a .c file - 664 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: #25 / 191
Number of attempts: 8

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1647 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: 20
Position: #64 / 433
Number of attempts: 8

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: 34
Position: #9 / 331
Number of attempts: 11

Flodder-challenge - 1369 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #62 / 352
Number of attempts: 13

Simple text editing with Vim - 13092 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #105 / 3765
Number of attempts: 10

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7229 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 32
Position: #40 / 1778
Number of attempts: 8