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vim = 22 / 7 - 422 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 35
Position: #110 / 129
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4641 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #20 / 1857
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 576 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #296 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2215 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #559 / 728
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4654 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #211 / 1542
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11136 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #101 / 4112
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 987 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 52
Position: #223 / 261
Number of attempts: 2

Todo list specification - 365 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 39
Position: #114 / 168
Number of attempts: 3

Create Leading Zeros - 205 entries

Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 66
Position: #73 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Create a table - 302 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #92 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Hello ${world} - 293 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 33
Position: #68 / 92
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2312 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #205 / 431
Number of attempts: 4

Swap assigned value - 556 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #225 / 235
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 495 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #41 / 327
Number of attempts: 1

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 61 entries

Here you need complete 2 tasks: 1. Remove all unwanted continuous blank lines and leave only 1 blank line between paragraphs. 2. Properly capitalize the sentences.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 54
Position: #19 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 388 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #36 / 194
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15740 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #15 / 4115
Number of attempts: 3

vim1001 - 269 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #45 / 105
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1951 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #142 / 572
Number of attempts: 3

Write Setters and Getters for PHP - 86 entries

Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.

Best score: 102
Best player score: 262
Position: #32 / 32
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 315 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 28
Position: #27 / 122
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #589 / 3637
Number of attempts: 3

Counting in binary - 412 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 41
Position: #75 / 108
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1547 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.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #402 / 498
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3026 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 :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #509 / 1044
Number of attempts: 2

Top X - 189 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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #41 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Number an outline - 223 entries

The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 57
Position: #40 / 72
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #1851 / 3919
Number of attempts: 2

Pairs of numbers - 345 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 44
Position: #98 / 129
Number of attempts: 1

Assign list - 150 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 60
Position: #50 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 973 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.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #265 / 297
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 358 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #92 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 164 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?

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #62 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 503 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 35
Position: #71 / 167
Number of attempts: 4

Enumerate words - 232 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #56 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 567 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #130 / 185
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 174 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 53
Position: #58 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 627 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #103 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 559 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 38
Position: #109 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1508 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #261 / 424
Number of attempts: 4

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 185 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 47
Position: #51 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 1961 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.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 29
Position: #313 / 466
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1005 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #51 / 418
Number of attempts: 6

Vertical Limit - 2367 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #542 / 716
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 791 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #147 / 218
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2791 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 28
Position: #571 / 732
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 1982 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #238 / 627
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 942 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #187 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 660 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #84 / 260
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 4917 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #148 / 1701
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1891 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #430 / 622
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1290 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #201 / 325
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1828 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #501 / 625
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1157 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: 15
Position: #257 / 382
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1771 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: 18
Position: #348 / 467
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1203 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #160 / 488
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat most common surnames - 586 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #73 / 186
Number of attempts: 3

Remember FizzBuzz? - 589 entries

Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 61
Position: #102 / 166
Number of attempts: 3

Get rid of html tags - 341 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #78 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1350 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #122 / 521
Number of attempts: 6

Sort and add attributes - 1191 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #154 / 484
Number of attempts: 2

Add fold markers to a .c file - 487 entries

Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 44
Position: #125 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1151 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #178 / 347
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 710 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 46
Position: #138 / 253
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2980 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #279 / 664
Number of attempts: 6

Flodder-challenge - 901 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 32
Position: #77 / 270
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 11637 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1004 / 3413
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6015 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 35
Position: #330 / 1482
Number of attempts: 3

Eric Potter
Twitter: @pottereric

Technical Strategist for Aptera Software. Microsoft MVP.