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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 163 entries
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.)
Reformat long lines - 367 entries
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
Generate English Alphabets - 505 entries
Start with a, get up to z.
Here, piggy, piggy... - 80 entries
Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...
Word Blender - 148 entries
The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?
Happy New Year! - 147 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
Insert a Markdown link - 462 entries
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 230 entries
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
Getters & Setters: Java - 212 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 - 266 entries
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
Return the cow - 75 entries
This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.
Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
CSV to JSON - 173 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 293 entries
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
The holy-grail may help - 389 entries
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
Shebangs for all - 2049 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 - 1264 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 - 486 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 - 167 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 - 204 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
Reverse Simple Deletion - 859 entries
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
Dumb to smart - 100 entries
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
The Cake is a Lie - 1376 entries
Correct the capitalization of each word
Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries
Vim likes macros
Remove Accent off the Letter - 137 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
Compile C - 441 entries
You might have to get clever to do this one.
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
Prime Numbers - 385 entries
List the first 100 prime numbers.
A Simple One - 1064 entries
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
Round Round - 321 entries
Round Round
Table Reshuffle - 450 entries
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
Fix the Haiku - 320 entries
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
Indentation - 552 entries
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
Linear congruential generator - 143 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
Hatsuyume - 549 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
Turn this csv list into queries - 252 entries
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
Context insensitive completion 0 - 590 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 - 640 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 - 552 entries
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1007 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 - 627 entries
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
Reformat a C golf submission - 614 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 - 778 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 - 219 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 - 5010 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
Deleting folded text - 386 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 - 417 entries
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...