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Simple, Practical, and Common - 32765 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.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #151 / 7241
Number of attempts: 6

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 545 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 11
Position: #322 / 341
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4583 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #103 / 1518
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11086 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #56 / 4093
Number of attempts: 3

Interweave two blocks of text - 546 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #60 / 197
Number of attempts: 3

Array of characters - 133 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #20 / 40
Number of attempts: 5

Cartesian product - 206 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 34
Position: #51 / 86
Number of attempts: 3

increment by column in XML - 143 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #10 / 51
Number of attempts: 3

range(10) digit rotation - 32 entries

This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #2 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15666 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #54 / 4098
Number of attempts: 5

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 209 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #13 / 94
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1089 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #11 / 288
Number of attempts: 5

Where should I put the Newline? - 832 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #6 / 416
Number of attempts: 4

Shuffle puzzle - 302 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #8 / 98
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10513 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #281 / 3629
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12690 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #3587 / 3906
Number of attempts: 2

Recursively Palindrome - 230 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #34 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 788 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 55
Position: #210 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2751 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #273 / 726
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4868 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #2 / 1691
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 517 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #2 / 332
Number of attempts: 1

Multiplication table. - 185 entries

Create a multiplication table.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 77
Position: #35 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1860 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #107 / 613
Number of attempts: 3

Line Zipper - 413 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #89 / 199
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 440 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #75 / 137
Number of attempts: 3

Complete the hex array data - 188 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #22 / 71
Number of attempts: 2

Case preserving word replacement - 413 entries

Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #6 / 169
Number of attempts: 2

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 129 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #11 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Sort entries based on date - 315 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #3 / 104
Number of attempts: 3

Refactor to Helpers - 45 entries

This Rails partial is almost all template escapes. Put it into a helper, and refactor each case to methods so we can build out the controls for each. (I've converted to tabs - fighting with Vimgolf's default config shouldn't be part of the challenge.)

Best score: 147
Best player score: 855
Position: #22 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

imports alignment (python) - 603 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 36
Position: #165 / 183
Number of attempts: 1

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 373 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 33
Position: #121 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 778 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 49
Position: #156 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

expand a list comprehension (python) - 275 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

Best score: 42
Best player score: 73
Position: #96 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat long lines - 320 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #3 / 125
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1797 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #127 / 614
Number of attempts: 2

Java Array2List - 216 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

Best score: 67
Best player score: 84
Position: #20 / 81
Number of attempts: 4

The holy-grail may help - 304 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #73 / 190
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1123 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #19 / 374
Number of attempts: 8

Assignment Alignment - 738 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #14 / 203
Number of attempts: 8

Shebangs for all - 1749 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #89 / 462
Number of attempts: 8

A Simple One - 880 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #176 / 589
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and count - 403 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #51 / 153
Number of attempts: 7

Reverse Simple Deletion - 740 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #174 / 419
Number of attempts: 3

Increment, increment, increment.... - 534 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #148 / 359
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1178 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #88 / 481
Number of attempts: 3

Context insensitive completion 0 - 461 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #39 / 216
Number of attempts: 3

Compile C - 300 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #34 / 116
Number of attempts: 1

Almost encrypted - 178 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #59 / 134
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 933 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #35 / 315
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2797 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #377 / 638
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 11431 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #2 / 3357
Number of attempts: 8

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5862 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 36
Position: #381 / 1448
Number of attempts: 8

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