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Prime Numbers - 401 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 43
Position: #50 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 868 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #132 / 451
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #172 / 1674
Number of attempts: 4

Interweave two blocks of text - 692 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: #45 / 217
Number of attempts: 4

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1047 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: #57 / 397
Number of attempts: 4

Cartesian product - 277 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 38
Position: #79 / 102
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 212 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: #43 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 456 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: #35 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 696 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #34 / 369
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 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: #155 / 457
Number of attempts: 4

SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 137 entries

Move the pipes so they match the output.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #25 / 49
Number of attempts: 2

Python to Ruby - 217 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #15 / 63
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: ROT13 Phonics - 118 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 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #630 / 778
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 878 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #30 / 234
Number of attempts: 9

replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #41 / 789
Number of attempts: 10

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #41 / 684
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1086 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #28 / 426
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse and double space - 511 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #38 / 202
Number of attempts: 3

Remove semicolons after expressions - 685 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #45 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #132 / 1764
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #148 / 368
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #27 / 658
Number of attempts: 6

Line Zipper - 480 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #54 / 217
Number of attempts: 3

remove dupes from array - 1377 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 / 341
Number of attempts: 7

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 334 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #9 / 108
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #123 / 661
Number of attempts: 4

A Simple One - 1088 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 / 679
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 468 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #22 / 145
Number of attempts: 4

Ruby 1.9 compat - 661 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 / 241
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse Simple Deletion - 871 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #249 / 465
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 706 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #246 / 416
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting paragraphs - 565 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #46 / 168
Number of attempts: 9

The Cake is a Lie - 1416 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #130 / 542
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 605 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 / 255
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 454 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #3 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 532 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #91 / 252
Number of attempts: 2

Almost encrypted - 211 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #91 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 652 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 40
Position: #96 / 246
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse characters in a line - 844 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #59 / 282
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat most common surnames - 834 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #61 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Remember FizzBuzz? - 818 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 49
Position: #41 / 209
Number of attempts: 8

Get rid of html tags - 463 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 23
Position: #218 / 261
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1799 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #84 / 655
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1591 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #120 / 615
Number of attempts: 3

Add fold markers to a .c file - 734 entries

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

Best score: 27
Best player score: 30
Position: #26 / 202
Number of attempts: 8

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1745 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: #71 / 457
Number of attempts: 8

Braces or Brackets? - 1201 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 / 362
Number of attempts: 11

Flodder-challenge - 1500 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 28
Position: #66 / 378
Number of attempts: 13

Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 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 / 3902
Number of attempts: 10

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 32
Position: #48 / 1889
Number of attempts: 8