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Where should I put the Newline? - 830 entries
Help me put the newline.
HTML formatting: vertical alignment for readability - 60 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.
Extract argument from function - 2176 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
Two become one - 692 entries
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
Piphilology - 124 entries
Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology
Mess in revision history - 1117 entries
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
Vim tetris - 347 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
Five Pillars - 60 entries
Arrange all words in a table with 5 columns. The minimal space between words in columns is 2 spaces. Columns do have varying width.
Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 86 entries
Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.
Carriage return - 41 entries
I have some raw data from terminal output which uses carriege return for formatting. Carriage return sets the pointer to the first character on the line, and subsequent characters will overwrite what was there before. The challange is to simulate the terminal behaviour in vim. I'm kind of unsure if I should have skipped lines 9 and 15, since there might be some interesting solutions which are not that generic. Happy Golfing!
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10509 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
O Christmas Tree - 99 entries
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
Going underground.... - 303 entries
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
Permutations N=4 - 60 entries
Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !
Split the words - 346 entries
Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.
Create Leading Zeros - 204 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
attr_aligner - 3347 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
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.
Under the cupola - 45 entries
Taking some liberty about the name and plot of the Stephen King's famous novel (and TV series) to make this challenge. Are you able to recreate graphically the key phrase of the story? (I think is gonna be hard!)
Untangle my tail, please! - 45 entries
You know, this words were playing to chase their tails and Oops! What happened? Now we have a complete mess, their tails are totally tangled, can you please help them to untangle their tails?
Letter case trickery - 1515 entries
This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.
Recursive Cowsay - 58 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
VimGolfNight - 482 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
quotes inside quotes - 2996 entries
taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)
Counting in binary - 405 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 58 entries
Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.
Hole-in-one - 963 entries
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
Delete unwanted lines - 350 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
Pairs of numbers - 340 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
Top X - 185 entries
The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome
Assign list - 146 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
Across-Down Flip - 42 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
Number an outline - 210 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
Change The Perspective - 36 entries
This is a go game recodes file(.sgf file, refer to http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/). It base on such a coordinate system: in vertical direction, is from top(farthest end) to bottom, mark as a,b,c,...，s(19*19 board); in horizontal direction, is from left to right, uses the same notations. For Example, the coordinate notation 'cq', is the position at the bottom-left corner(vertical coordinate first). The record is from one player's perspective. We need to change to another's, but we don't want to change coordinate system, let it keep top to bottom and left to right. so we have to change the coordinates, a <-> s, b <-> r,c <-> q, etc. the Position 'cq', as transformation, it will be 'qd'.
paste indent correction - JS - 83 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
Draw the Go board - 131 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))
Words in parens - 12676 entries
We should all ace this, right?
Lookahead and Lookbehind - 65 entries
Look everywhere
It's a factor - 80 entries
Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 324 entries
"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!
Extended Customer 2 - 44 entries
Format the chars
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 163 entries
col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?
Fibonacci Triangles - 41 entries
Triangles
199 Fibonacci Numbers - 36 entries
Generate 199 Fibonacci Numbers using, if you like, the function S(x,y), a vimscript to sum two big numbers in reverse order.
Refactor arguments into object argument - 159 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
vim = 22 / 7 - 408 entries
pi square vim
Chinese Multiplication Table - 70 entries
Print a Chinese multiplication table in Vim. In China, every kid is asked to memorize this table. And thanks to the mono-syllabism of Chinese characters, it is not that hard. Printing the multiplication table is also a good exercise for programming beginners. For-loop, escaped characters, etc... There should be some special ways to print it in Vim.
LaTeX to XML Math Delimiters - 40 entries
Vim is amazing when used to edit MediaWiki text, but typing "<math> . . . </math>" can be tiresome and frustrating if formulas are used often. LaTeX delimiters are so concise and even come in two flavors: "\( . . . \)" for inline math and "\[ . . . \]" for centered formulas. The goal is to perform the following conversions: "\( . . . \)" becomes "<math>. . .</math>" "\[ . . . \]" becomes "<center><math>. . .</math></center>"
Define to require - 118 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.
Minimalist Limerick - 500 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.