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The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 445 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

maximun and minimun - 83 entries

Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.

Sierpinski's Triangle - 110 entries

Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.

Dehamlizing - 193 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Create an alphabet diamond - 112 entries

Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...

Convert regular pandoc footnotes to in-line notes - 70 entries

Pandoc extends markdown by allowing footnotes, which are usually represented with a footnote identifier followed later in the document by the footnote itself. But Pandoc also allows inline footnotes without identifiers. How many strokes does it take to convert regular footnotes to inline notes? (NB: I've had trouble figuring out whether text-width makes a difference to Vimgolf in comparing the input and output file. I finally tested this locally using the Vimgolf vimrc and did a "gq" on the entire buffer as the last step. Apologies if I'm making a newbie mistake. First time submitter.)

Complete the circuit grid! - 117 entries

Continuing from the last challenge, add additional rows to the grid. Change each of the names from 'A1'...'A10' to 'B1'...'B10', 'C1'...'C10', etc, and for each new row add 0.7 to the X values in the (X Y) at the end of each line.

Make the circuit grid! - 106 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 - 191 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 - 2634 entries

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

Shuffle and Sort - 244 entries

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

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 229 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 - 157 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 - 240 entries

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

Aligning function arguments to match a specific coding style - 279 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 - 237 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 - 2204 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Calculate the table totals - 165 entries

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

Remove noise from HTTP log - 742 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 - 676 entries

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

Append semicolon after expressions - 1071 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Format the output - 158 entries

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

Exchanging Quotes - 877 entries

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

Reverse and double space - 511 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

The meaning - 581 entries

Numbers are fun!

un-C-escape string - 60 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

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

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1043 entries

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

constructor - 193 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Replacing some words - 445 entries

How fast could it be?

Make it more readable - 2036 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

remove dupes from array - 1375 entries

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

Sort entries based on date - 411 entries

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

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 569 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 - 52 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 - 327 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 - 258 entries

Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.

formatted text to markdown - 192 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. - 237 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Line Zipper - 480 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 179 entries

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

Interweave two blocks of text - 675 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 - 211 entries