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simple format - 121 entries
make it look better.
Simple format (2) - 26 entries
try again!
Simple, Practical, and Common - 20844 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.
Applying same text modification in several lines - 588 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
One number per line - 10273 entries
Just give me the numbers.
Com(m)a Trouble - 562 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
Swap values inside brackets - 757 entries
Easy challenge.
I forgot quotes - 10037 entries
Oops.
Just the middle - 8425 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
Words in parens - 10279 entries
We should all ace this, right?
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9016 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
Vice versa - 5294 entries
Little role switching.
convert yml into java pojo field - 412 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
Simple text editing with Vim - 9863 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
Team names - 1187 entries
The team names are misspelled.
Swap values - 3071 entries
Well, swap the values...
Basic renumbering - 4072 entries
Renumbering Basic.
Collect List - 3118 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
Array transposition - 1237 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 139 entries
Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/
V to the i - 3495 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
Every other line - 1764 entries
AaAaAaA
multiple cursor alternative - 863 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
Copy three lines - 1672 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
From argument to object - 991 entries
This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5335 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
Split line with dots - 1685 entries
This line is too long, split it.
switch variable - 4069 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
Swap the operands under comparison - 164 entries
Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)
-a-b-c- - 2325 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
attr_aligner - 2779 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
Array Transposition - 110 entries
Transpose four arrays into two.
quotes inside quotes - 2632 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 :)
Learn some german verbs - 316 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
Search and Replace 0 - 3819 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
That hyphen - 1841 entries
"vim vi improved"
comment and uncomment code inline - 621 entries
It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.
Adam's challenge - 632 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
Missing Library and a Typo - 573 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
Extract argument from function - 1791 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 664 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
Number Sort - 180 entries
sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing
Don't know what this is - 1571 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
replacing each line of a block selection - 2373 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
Space out the alphabet - 1250 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
Order and join - 660 entries
There's something special about the input order.
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2488 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
Vertical Limit - 1995 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
comments galore - 854 entries
Basic comment reformatting
Saving the hashes(#) - 1660 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.