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vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #18 / 135
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4830 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #31 / 1903
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2376 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #77 / 759
Number of attempts: 3

Create Leading Zeros - 245 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #46 / 84
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 671 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #55 / 259
Number of attempts: 5

VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #114 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #191 / 301
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2025 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: #295 / 587
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #98 / 438
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1872 / 3700
Number of attempts: 4

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 33
Position: #511 / 706
Number of attempts: 1

Ninjas Leaderboard - 102 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 / 42
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #164 / 3977
Number of attempts: 8

Hole-in-one - 1024 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: #39 / 305
Number of attempts: 7

Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #101 / 234
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 638 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #8 / 203
Number of attempts: 10

abcd > a b c d - 299 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #114 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 476 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #98 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 206 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: #69 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #226 / 450
Number of attempts: 3

you're stuck on jQuery < 1.7 - 362 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 / 113
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2596 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #222 / 767
Number of attempts: 5

Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 40
Position: #190 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #50 / 780
Number of attempts: 13

Switch function arguments - 2182 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #80 / 674
Number of attempts: 7

Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #62 / 421
Number of attempts: 3

Remove noise from HTTP log - 729 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 / 276
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: 8
Position: #212 / 264
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #219 / 1754
Number of attempts: 9

The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #209 / 364
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: #46 / 652
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1360 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 / 337
Number of attempts: 10

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1272 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: #159 / 412
Number of attempts: 6

Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 43
Position: #205 / 221
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1067 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 / 671
Number of attempts: 1

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: #44 / 236
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #15 / 463
Number of attempts: 3

Indentation - 552 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 33
Position: #145 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1386 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #356 / 537
Number of attempts: 6

Make Fancy Header - 1075 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #79 / 349
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1707 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #120 / 628
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1677 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: #377 / 440
Number of attempts: 2