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Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 130 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.
Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 25 entries
sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files
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 !
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))
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
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!
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...
Fill visual area - 70 entries
Just have fun!
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 86 entries
Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.
Overall Vimgolf Rank - 138 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.
Checkerboard case pattern - 106 entries
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
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)
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.)
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.
Sudoku table - 55 entries
Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.
Double and switch - 36 entries
Aaaanother case switcher
Calculate the table totals - 105 entries
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
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.
Printable ASCII characters - 95 entries
From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.
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?
Land of the Lost - 60 entries
Enter the tabs below the lyrics
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.
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?
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
Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 20 entries
Convert from one format to another
Square numbers - 57 entries
Boring math puzzle.
Flatten repo - 22 entries
For each git repository (<project> tag) translate name attribute to flatten directory structure. Add path attribute if missing (because checkout hierarchy must be kept). #xml
paste indent correction - JS - 75 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
Linear congruential generator - 104 entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
Roman numerals - 57 entries
Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.
It's a factor - 75 entries
Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.
Remove Accent off the Letter - 100 entries
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 59 entries
We did this a VimGolf challenge at work and now that we have finished I want to see if you guys can come up with something even better than we could. Our best solution was 44 keystrokes.
Sierpinski's Triangle - 79 entries
Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.
Execute immediate SQL - 72 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
Lower cased and dashed strings - 41 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 ;)
Create an alphabet diamond - 74 entries
Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...
Before there was Farmville... - 91 entries
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
Chucking wood - 69 entries
An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)