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Vim tetris - 364 entries
Vim can play tetris too!
Five Pillars - 63 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 - 88 entries
Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.
Carriage return - 45 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 ! - 10682 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
O Christmas Tree - 109 entries
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
Going underground.... - 356 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 - 61 entries
Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !
Split the words - 372 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 - 241 entries
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
attr_aligner - 3522 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
Ninjas Leaderboard - 99 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 - 57 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! - 60 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 - 1630 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 - 64 entries
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
VimGolfNight - 566 entries
Based on "The name of the game".
quotes inside quotes - 3165 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 - 526 entries
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
Hanging Indent for Footnotes - 72 entries
Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.
Hole-in-one - 1018 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 - 419 entries
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
Pairs of numbers - 363 entries
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
Top X - 212 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 - 192 entries
Assign list elements to matrix
Across-Down Flip - 68 entries
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
Number an outline - 280 entries
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
Change The Perspective - 38 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 - 112 entries
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
Draw the Go board - 149 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 - 12967 entries
We should all ace this, right?
Lookahead and Lookbehind - 70 entries
Look everywhere
It's a factor - 104 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 - 348 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 - 49 entries
Format the chars
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 179 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 - 59 entries
Triangles
199 Fibonacci Numbers - 41 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 - 166 entries
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
vim = 22 / 7 - 475 entries
pi square vim
Chinese Multiplication Table - 81 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 - 48 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 - 127 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 - 520 entries
Reproduce this lovely poem.
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries
The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.
Word frequency alignment - 291 entries
You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...
Circle in a square - 152 entries
Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.
Execute immediate SQL - 90 entries
Sql string tranformation ...
Prefixes and suffixes - 635 entries
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
Coordinates placeholder - 73 entries
Place coordinates instead of target search.