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Make the circuit grid! - 101 entries

Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 166 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

Vertical Limit - 2574 entries

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

Shuffle and Sort - 233 entries

The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be

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

Changing URL path in CSS - 143 entries

What's the quickest way to swap out all the URLs in a CSS file? Is it wasted keystrokes using look-behinds and look-aheads? (I'm sorry for the delete/report--I made a mistake with the last one requiring an ugly search for graphic to replace with images. I just intended this to be a simple search and replace that might possibly generate some macros or normals solutions that are quicker)

Inconsistent real estate paste - 217 entries

Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 259 entries

Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.

Create a pandoc compatible table - 214 entries

In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/

Switch function arguments - 2162 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Calculate the table totals - 146 entries

Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.

Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Remove semicolons after expressions - 663 entries

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

Append semicolon after expressions - 1057 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Format the output - 146 entries

Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.

Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries

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

Reverse and double space - 500 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

un-C-escape string - 58 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1011 entries

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

constructor - 182 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Replacing some words - 428 entries

How fast could it be?

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

remove dupes from array - 1360 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Sort entries based on date - 405 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 545 entries

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 - 50 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 - 298 entries

Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 2 - 98 entries

Same class but reverse!

PHP <--> Java class conversion Part 1 - 254 entries

Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.

formatted text to markdown - 184 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.

Multiplication table. - 232 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 166 entries

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

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 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?

Complete the hex array data - 197 entries

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

Case preserving word replacement - 456 entries

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

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Java Array2List - 233 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

expand a list comprehension (python) - 334 entries

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

HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

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

Overall Vimgolf Rank - 216 entries

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.

Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Before there was Farmville... - 101 entries

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

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