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@udioica
@gumnos
@zulolosi
@braxler
@KersonHsiao
Put hyphens everywhere.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
We should all ace this, right?
Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.
Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
Rotate that triangle.
Just testing.
Help me put the newline.
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
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 :)
If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
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.
Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.
how fast can you switch two variable ?
We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?
Solve the equations.
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.
Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.
Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
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.
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
How to switch two arguments of a function.
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
Vim can play tetris too!
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
Pretty simple, number the list.
Oops, I spelled that wrong.
given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements
Based on "The name of the game".
Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...
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.
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.
Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.
This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.
Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.
Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.
"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.
Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."
Correct the capitalization of each word
Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.
Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"
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!
Reproduce this lovely poem.
End up with the name of the game.
Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.
"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.
pi square vim
Replace the text the most efficient and win!
Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.
This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.
Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks
Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...
Numbers are fun!
convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.
A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.
Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.
Create leading zeros only for id columns. Please use generic approach!
Just simple automation of writing Setters and Getters like Doctrine might use.
Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant p. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology
Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!
Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything
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.
You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.
A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.
Help convert this HTML page to Haml.
line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.
replace calls to jQuery 1.7+'s `on` with calls to pre 1.7 `bind`
Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...
The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.
Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."
Align as one import per line.
How fast could it be?
Transform the series of words into a list.
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!
Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!
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
Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).
"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!
Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames
Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.
Assign list elements to matrix
You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.
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!
transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line
Output FizzBuzz to 100. Start with nothing.
Fold markers can make it easier to navigate source code. Add them to this .c file.
You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.
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...
Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.
Zip/pair related lines.
Enumerate the unique words in order.
Half way through my project, my people turned into dogs. Now I have to change everything in my source.
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.
Happy New Year!
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?
Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index
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?
Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.
Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.
Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.
Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.
Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.
Convert this Python code to Ruby. NOTE: This program likely won't run.
Start with a, get up to z.
Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?
A relatively common Javascript refactoring.
Vim likes macros
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume
Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.
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
Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.
Put the contacts and their information in alphabetical order.
Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.
Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...
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))
Change this piece of HAML code back into erb
Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?
If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.
The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.
Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.
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.
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!
Arrange all words in a table with 5 columns. The minimal space between words in columns is 2 spaces. Columns do have varying width.
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.
Most projects have specific coding style guidelines. In this case, the argument list must be broken into a new line for each argument, with the argument names right aligned, taking into account pointers.
Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!
The values where sorted incorrectly. Get them back to how they are supposed to be
Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()
Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections
Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)
Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.
Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.
coding a constructor for a simple class
You might have to get clever to do this one.
Convert an java array initializer into a list.
Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?
In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/
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.
Convert this tiny php class to adequate java one.
All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.
List the first 100 prime numbers.
Maybe a simple challenge.
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?
You're converting some posts from an old blog to markdown. The formatted text is far closer to the finished product than the html markup, so it seems like a good place to start. Word wrapping seems to be the main area for optimization.
Create a multiplication table.
My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.
Extract text from xml file (ignoring commented out elements) and create a one line regex.
VimGolf ... a perfect evening?
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
Round Round
You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!
Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.
Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.
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)
Transform each line of this csv file into a MySQL-ready INSERT query.
Flaunt your macro prowess by factoring some numbers. Too hard? It takes less than 30 strokes, I promise.
Move the pipes so they match the output.
{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}
From a blank input, print all 95 printing ASCII characters one per line, from space to tilde.
Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.
Sql string tranformation ...
Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.
Format this footnote (in kramdown syntax) so that it has hanging indent.
Look everywhere
Convert 'cowsay' statement to recursive output
According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max
Sometimes your standard out is a little hard to read. Take this multilevel hash and make it human readable.
A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.
A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.
Could use backtracking or other algorithm to generate sorted numbers. Second chance !
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.
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.)
Copy this command for a circuit layout program to create 10 total smd commands. Increment the number in quotes to name each pad, and add 0.7 to each of the (X Y) coordinates at the end of each line.
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.)
A is for apple, b is for ball, etc... This familiar phonics poem has been rotated 13 characters. Make the letter match the word.
The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.
Continuing from the last challenge, add additional rows to the grid. Change each of the names from 'A1'...'A10' to 'B1'...'B10', 'C1'...'C10', etc, and for each new row add 0.7 to the X values in the (X Y) at the end of each line.
Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]
Here's a brain teaser to keep things interesting...
This is a simple new year's challenge.
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...
Draw a border around this familiar logo ;)
The insides of long words seem to have been run through the blender. Can you fix this famous tale, brave knight?
Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.
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?
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.
Display a list of the Circle of Fifths with corresponding solfege syllables with sharps. Handling spaces may be tricky.
Same class but reverse!
cleanup the file
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?
Build the famous fractal, Sierpinski's Triangle.
White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator
Pandoc extends markdown by allowing footnotes, which are usually represented with a footnote identifier followed later in the document by the footnote itself. But Pandoc also allows inline footnotes without identifiers. How many strokes does it take to convert regular footnotes to inline notes? (NB: I've had trouble figuring out whether text-width makes a difference to Vimgolf in comparing the input and output file. I finally tested this locally using the Vimgolf vimrc and did a "gq" on the entire buffer as the last step. Apologies if I'm making a newbie mistake. First time submitter.)
There was old MacDonald. For my toddler. The first Vim sing-a-long?
Place coordinates instead of target search.
Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)
Remove all the accent from extremely accented statements.
Format the chars
Triangles
Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.
Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.
Turn dumb quote to smart vim's way.
The lines with the biggest sums need to be at the top. The sums are on the right, which makes life hard. Maybe you can find a feature that will do all the work for you...
Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...
Same numbers as last time, but you'll have to add them yourself.
Convert escape sequences to characters
Transform # and b to digraphs
Convert this xml file into json.
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!)
This cow is too verbose. Give it a lesson.
Given a nice CSV formatted arrangement of the Presidents of the United States, we need to print out an alphabetical list in pretty columns. Prove that vim can conquer this basic Excel task!
Find the maximum and minimum of the rows.
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>"
Generate 199 Fibonacci Numbers using, if you like, the function S(x,y), a vimscript to sum two big numbers in reverse order.
Starting with a list of Greek letters, create a cross-reference table showing all of the Greek alpha-beta. You'll likely need to use digraphs (:help digraphs). Note that while most digraphs can be entered with either character first, lowercase sigma has two digraphs -- s* AND *s! Good luck!
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'.
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.)