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formatted text to markdown - 173 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.
Assign numbers to fields - 82 entries
You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.
Complete the hex array data - 174 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
Multiplication table. - 171 entries
Create a multiplication table.
Create a pandoc compatible table - 148 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/
Groups magic - 136 entries
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 140 entries
Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.
Unwrap the text of an email message - 135 entries
Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?
Inconsistent real estate paste - 142 entries
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
REDRUM - 131 entries
If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.
Almost encrypted - 165 entries
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
Circle in a square - 125 entries
Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.
Winding path - 91 entries
It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 131 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?
Solve the Sokoban - 158 entries
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
SFD-ROC: Tic-Tac-Toe - 124 entries
Tic-Tac-Toe You are 'X', and it is your turn. Stop 'O' from winning, and complete the game. Draw a diagonal line through your winning row of three X's.
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 155 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
O Christmas Tree - 99 entries
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
Draw the Go board - 109 entries
which is a 19×19 lines board. Here we use ascii characters only for simplicity. See diff file to get a sense. (See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game))
Entries sort - 71 entries
It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !
Define to require - 113 entries
When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.
Refactoring useless Method away - 78 entries
Real-life challenge, convert a bunch of ifs to a switch statement
CSV to JSON - 143 entries
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
Getters & Setters: Java - 141 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...
Long prime list - filter version - 19 entries
I've used the maximum input/diff/output size allowed by vimgolf to get a list of integers up to 1460 separated by newlines, and your goal is to only keep the lines containing primes. There are 232 of them I hope some of you will golf vimscript itself to create some function to run as a primality check for each line, which is a good exercise if you haven't done much vimscript yet! You're invited to also try copy-pasting and doing other non-smart text manipulation. Even more interesting would be to see a solution that uses text manipulation to do the filtering! Whether you use vimscript, normal-mode primality checks, or text manipulation, as long as the end result is valid, your answer will be valid! Let's see which method does better here. Best of luck!
Fill visual area - 70 entries
Just have fun!
Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 40 entries
I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!
Checkerboard case pattern - 106 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 86 entries
Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.
Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 25 entries
sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files
Changing URL path in CSS - 111 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)
Overall Vimgolf Rank - 132 entries
Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.
Extract text from xml - 101 entries
Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.
Happy New Year! - 129 entries
This is a simple new year's challenge.
Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 123 entries
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 - 128 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.)
Calculate the table totals - 105 entries
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
Rail fence transposition cipher - 63 entries
Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.
Ninjas Leaderboard - 84 entries
The two lines in "Start file" has an obfuscated email address. Second line give an index (from 1 to 30) to the chars list of the first line, for example, the first char of email (n) is in position 25, second char (i) is in position 19 and s.o.
Letters are numbers - 123 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?
Sudoku table - 55 entries
Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.
Printable ASCII characters - 95 entries
From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.
Comparing scores - 68 entries
If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.
Double and switch - 36 entries
Aaaanother case switcher
Word Blender - 118 entries
The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?
Land of the Lost - 60 entries
Enter the tabs below the lyrics
SFD-ROC: Pipe Dreams - 93 entries
Move the pipes so they match the output.
Format the output - 95 entries
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries
Implementing the methods of a Java Interface
Square numbers - 57 entries
Boring math puzzle.