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I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Refactor to Helpers - 45 entries

This Rails partial is almost all template escapes. Put it into a helper, and refactor each case to methods so we can build out the controls for each. (I've converted to tabs - fighting with Vimgolf's default config shouldn't be part of the challenge.)

Alphabetize the directory - 281 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 95 entries

Same class but reverse!

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 211 entries

Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.

formatted text to markdown - 180 entries

You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.

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Create a multiplication table.

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Zip/pair related lines.

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Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

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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?

Complete the hex array data - 190 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Case preserving word replacement - 442 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Sort the cardinal numbers - 283 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Numbering a List - 1838 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Recursively Palindrome - 235 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Java Array2List - 218 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

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Align as one import per line.

expand a list comprehension (python) - 291 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

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Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

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

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Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.

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line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

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There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?

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Somebody's got this slightly muddled up. See how quickly you can fix it. (I made this to experiment with buffers. I'm not actually sure whether this is faster with buffers or without.)

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

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Start with a, get up to z.

Here, piggy, piggy... - 75 entries

Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...

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The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?

Happy New Year! - 139 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

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Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 209 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

Getters & Setters: Java - 190 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Cartesian product - 218 entries

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

Return the cow - 71 entries

This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.

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A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

CSV to JSON - 154 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 252 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

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Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

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We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

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