diff --git a/2004/vik2/Makefile b/2004/vik2/Makefile
index 58b7e4a35..1cef73f36 100644
--- a/2004/vik2/Makefile
+++ b/2004/vik2/Makefile
@@ -1,15 +1,3 @@
-vik2: vik2.c
-	@${RM} -f vik2_1.c
-	${CC} -E '-DSTOP=_5' '-DFNAME="vik2_1.c"' vik2.c > vik2_1.c
-	@${RM} -f vik2_2.c
-	${CC} -E vik2_1.c > vik2_2.c
-	${CC} -O vik2_2.c -o vik2
-
-vik2_clean:
-	${RM} -f vik2_1.c vik2_2.c vik2.o
-
-vik2_clobber: vik2_clean
-	${RM} -f vik2
 #!/usr/bin/env make
 #
 # IOCCC 2004 winning entry - vik2
@@ -225,6 +213,11 @@ clean:
 	    echo ${RM} -f indent.c; \
 	    ${RM} -f indent.c; \
 	fi
+vik2_clean:
+	${RM} -f vik2_1.c vik2_2.c vik2.o
+
+vik2_clobber: vik2_clean
+	${RM} -f vik2
 
 clobber: clean
 	${RM} -f ${TARGET} ${ALT_TARGET}
diff --git a/2004/vik2/README.md b/2004/vik2/README.md
index 0310ee4fb..48de3120a 100644
--- a/2004/vik2/README.md
+++ b/2004/vik2/README.md
@@ -195,16 +195,16 @@ the output file of the cpp pre-processor. The time taken  to pre process
 the program  were measured  using gnu cpp on my 2.0MHz P4 with 512Mb ram
 and a lot of disk.
 
-	Generated   Recursive  Max nest  Intermediate
-Level   prime nrs   includes   count     file size          Time
+	    Generated   Recursive  Max nest  Intermediate
+    Level   prime nrs   includes   count     file size          Time
 
-  _3     < 8           2 322       9         74 748            4"
-  _4     < 16          4 672       9        182 652            9"
-  _5     < 32         14 237       9        629 121           32"
-  _6     < 64         43 748       9      1 998 134         1'41"
-  _7     < 128       149 851      11      6 823 575         5'50"
-  _8     < 256       526 874      17     24 028 933        20'37"
-  _9     < 512     1 920 272      38     65 527 808(*)  1h 42'19"(*)
- _10     < 1024    6 826 389     114     63 782 912(*)  2h 47'58"(*)
+      _3     < 8           2 322       9         74 748            4"
+      _4     < 16          4 672       9        182 652            9"
+      _5     < 32         14 237       9        629 121           32"
+      _6     < 64         43 748       9      1 998 134         1'41"
+      _7     < 128       149 851      11      6 823 575         5'50"
+      _8     < 256       526 874      17     24 028 933        20'37"
+      _9     < 512     1 920 272      38     65 527 808(*)  1h 42'19"(*)
+     _10     < 1024    6 826 389     114     63 782 912(*)  2h 47'58"(*)
 
 	 (*) Before cpp crashed.