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Generate a list of numbers - 284 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

A grid of punctuation - 127 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Array of characters - 157 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Paragraph sort - 431 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Wrap text in quotes - 351 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Copy three lines - 2869 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Split line with dots - 2131 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Align commas - 1063 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

From A to B - 575 entries

Mirror and change this text block

SQL to YAML - 47 entries

Should be easy with vim, or not?

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Convert pasted text into Markdown - 23 entries

I often need to copy/paste text into Markdown files. The challenge here is to wrap the lines in a way that prefers breaks after periods, commas, or other logical demarcations. There should be no spaces at the beginning of a line.

Scrambled numbers - 780 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

underscore_to_camelCase - 163 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

Mirrored text - 167 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

ASCII Art - 85 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Fun With The Diagonal - 104 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Free hyphen! - 165 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Inner hyphens - 130 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

Sorting a glossary - 127 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Alsa configuration - 502 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 165 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Create bison tokens - 35 entries

Create tokens for bison out of a known list of words

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 179 entries

FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.

Replace and keep the case - 415 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

comments galore - 1017 entries

Basic comment reformatting

No naked if allowed! - 33 entries

House style forbids naked condition statements, comments should start with a space character and be on their own line. Good luck!

lipsum lines - 255 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Angular naming conventions - 307 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Manual SQL - 136 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Forgot to follow the naming convention... - 34 entries

Rename everything like MY_VAR_SOMETHING to MyVarSomething.

Sudoku table - 73 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Lower cased and dashed strings - 48 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Vim's not included features - 220 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Assign numbers to fields - 107 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Add to end of each line... kinda - 329 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Maze path - 38 entries

Follow the given motions and mark your path with Xs. Attention: This maze is quite big (20x20), please set your terminal size to at least 82.

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Entries sort - 82 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

Mirror Symmetry - 812 entries

Add backslashes.

Restore order to the alphabet - 197 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Line 'em up! - 396 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

swap or reverse - 118 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Tiny column alignment - 47 entries

Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!

readability - 315 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

remove all lines in first part - 197 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

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