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It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 211 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.
Solve the Sokoban - 161 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
CSV to JSON - 158 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 256 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
The holy-grail may help - 339 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
Shebangs for all - 1846 entries
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.
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1202 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!
Reverse and count - 432 entries
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
Letters are numbers - 149 entries
Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?
Almost encrypted - 196 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
Reverse Simple Deletion - 824 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
Dumb to smart - 93 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 296 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
Make Fancy Header - 998 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
The Cake is a Lie - 1266 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
Increment, increment, increment.... - 628 entries
Vim likes macros
Remove Accent off the Letter - 105 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
Compile C - 362 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 236 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
Prime Numbers - 340 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
A Simple One - 985 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
Round Round - 285 entries
Round Round
Table Reshuffle - 366 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
Fix the Haiku - 272 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
Indentation - 492 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
Linear congruential generator - 112 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
Hatsuyume - 442 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 444 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
Turn this csv list into queries - 203 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
Context insensitive completion 0 - 492 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.
Ruby 1.9 compat - 608 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!
Sorting paragraphs - 503 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 930 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.
Reformat some Python - 576 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
Reformat a C golf submission - 547 entries
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
Reverse characters in a line - 701 entries
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 174 entries
According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max
Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
Deleting folded text - 325 entries
The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.
Get rid of html tags - 356 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
Reformat most common surnames - 613 entries
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
Remember FizzBuzz? - 634 entries
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
Change the content of a string - 1425 entries
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
Add fold markers to a .c file - 529 entries
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 653 entries
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1265 entries
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
Sort and add attributes - 1273 entries
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.