VimGolf - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke!

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Open VimGolf challenges

Reverse and count - 429 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 - 147 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 - 194 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Reverse Simple Deletion - 811 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 293 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Make Fancy Header - 991 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

The Cake is a Lie - 1245 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Increment, increment, increment.... - 603 entries

Vim likes macros

Remove Accent off the Letter - 103 entries

Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.

Compile C - 353 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 230 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

Prime Numbers - 339 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

A Simple One - 968 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Round Round - 243 entries

Round Round

Table Reshuffle - 364 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Fix the Haiku - 269 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

Indentation - 458 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 - 433 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 438 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 - 480 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 - 601 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 - 500 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 916 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 - 573 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Reformat a C golf submission - 546 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 - 679 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 - 173 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 - 4730 entries

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

Deleting folded text - 324 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.