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vim = 22 / 7 - 491 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #18 / 136
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4883 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #31 / 1914
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #77 / 772
Number of attempts: 3

Create Leading Zeros - 277 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #49 / 89
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 694 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #55 / 263
Number of attempts: 5

VimGolfNight - 602 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #114 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1207 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #196 / 309
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2067 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: 14
Position: #301 / 595
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 911 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #98 / 450
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1879 / 3716
Number of attempts: 4

attr_aligner - 3566 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 33
Position: #514 / 710
Number of attempts: 1

Ninjas Leaderboard - 114 entries

The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #2 / 45
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #169 / 3991
Number of attempts: 8

Hole-in-one - 1040 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: 16
Position: #40 / 307
Number of attempts: 7

Delete unwanted lines - 450 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #101 / 236
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 668 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #8 / 207
Number of attempts: 10

abcd > a b c d - 308 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #114 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 484 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #100 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 229 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: 53
Position: #71 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1162 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #229 / 459
Number of attempts: 3

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 401 entries

replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #9 / 116
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #227 / 778
Number of attempts: 5

Exchanging Quotes - 878 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 40
Position: #192 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

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: #50 / 789
Number of attempts: 13

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #80 / 684
Number of attempts: 7

Append semicolon after expressions - 1086 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #62 / 426
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 758 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: #83 / 281
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: 8
Position: #217 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #219 / 1764
Number of attempts: 9

The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #209 / 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: #46 / 658
Number of attempts: 4

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: #53 / 341
Number of attempts: 10

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 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: 13
Position: #162 / 419
Number of attempts: 6

Assignment Alignment - 909 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 43
Position: #209 / 226
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1091 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: #354 / 680
Number of attempts: 1

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: #44 / 241
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #15 / 466
Number of attempts: 3

Indentation - 575 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 33
Position: #147 / 183
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #360 / 543
Number of attempts: 6

Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #79 / 356
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1799 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #120 / 655
Number of attempts: 4

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: 26
Position: #388 / 457
Number of attempts: 2