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vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 36
Position: #113 / 131
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #272 / 1585
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 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: #56 / 364
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 626 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #153 / 250
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #129 / 343
Number of attempts: 2

Going underground.... - 339 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: 29
Position: #52 / 125
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1627 / 3667
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 30
Position: #352 / 692
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1594 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: 12
Position: #303 / 511
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: 15
Position: #395 / 1072
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #3356 / 3946
Number of attempts: 4

Hole-in-one - 1012 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: 19
Position: #169 / 302
Number of attempts: 4

Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #107 / 225
Number of attempts: 3

abcd > a b c d - 280 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #119 / 218
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 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: #193 / 439
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 448 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #8 / 193
Number of attempts: 3

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 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: 27
Position: #242 / 473
Number of attempts: 6

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #226 / 441
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #431 / 738
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #366 / 768
Number of attempts: 2

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #618 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 489 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #51 / 194
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1556 / 1736
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #212 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 40
Position: #119 / 185
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #262 / 640
Number of attempts: 2

Line Zipper - 450 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #182 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1336 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: 22
Position: #170 / 331
Number of attempts: 3

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 390 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 31
Position: #95 / 163
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat long lines - 341 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #110 / 130
Number of attempts: 4

Generate English Alphabets - 473 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #130 / 202
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #309 / 639
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: #153 / 401
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #281 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #269 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 507 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: 8
Position: #132 / 232
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat some Python - 579 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 36
Position: #67 / 229
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse characters in a line - 709 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: 17
Position: #160 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #444 / 558
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #330 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 556 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #127 / 172
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1369 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: 23
Position: #269 / 384
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #322 / 737
Number of attempts: 5

Flodder-challenge - 1118 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 36
Position: #163 / 311
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1149 / 3581
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 38
Position: #601 / 1616
Number of attempts: 2