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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33392 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: 24
Position: #2957 / 7365
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #552 / 1257
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #2571 / 3842
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1139 / 1879
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #336 / 744
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #983 / 1585
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #448 / 695
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2139 / 4164
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 48
Position: #161 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 939 entries

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.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 40
Position: #27 / 365
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #896 / 1258
Number of attempts: 1

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 161 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 36
Position: #22 / 60
Number of attempts: 3

Add to end of each line... kinda - 325 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #77 / 171
Number of attempts: 2

underscore_to_camelCase - 162 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #44 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1217 / 2101
Number of attempts: 1

7th Birthday - 186 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #42 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 210 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #34 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #339 / 418
Number of attempts: 1

Mirrored text - 163 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #42 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 252 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #66 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

Inner hyphens - 126 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #47 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 407 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #72 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 779 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #112 / 182
Number of attempts: 1

Alsa configuration - 491 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 34
Position: #98 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

Manual SQL - 133 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 57
Position: #18 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

Restore order to the alphabet - 188 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #34 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 13
Position: #206 / 266
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 626 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #181 / 250
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #710 / 1186
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #235 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #121 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #279 / 440
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 996 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #162 / 284
Number of attempts: 1

Line 'em up! - 392 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 28
Position: #88 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 234 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #76 / 93
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #205 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 788 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #167 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1638 / 4161
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #809 / 1129
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #244 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 438 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #131 / 154
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 468 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #78 / 143
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #89 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1123 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #159 / 294
Number of attempts: 4

Two become one - 711 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #158 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #374 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #64 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1161 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #148 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

Split the words - 356 entries

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.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #62 / 108
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2754 / 3667
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #430 / 692
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1594 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: 12
Position: #343 / 511
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: #627 / 1072
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2650 / 3946
Number of attempts: 1

Pairs of numbers - 360 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: 42
Position: #93 / 133
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 1012 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: 19
Position: #183 / 302
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 593 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #89 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #210 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #224 / 439
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #285 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #359 / 738
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 36
Position: #118 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #469 / 768
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #281 / 652
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #227 / 403
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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: 16
Position: #184 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1395 / 1736
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #474 / 640
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1336 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: 22
Position: #177 / 331
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #260 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: 14
Position: #237 / 401
Number of attempts: 2

Assignment Alignment - 832 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #100 / 215
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1912 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: #370 / 500
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1001 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: #427 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 371 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #69 / 134
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #364 / 512
Number of attempts: 5

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #235 / 338
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 711 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #135 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 36
Position: #137 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1489 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #493 / 560
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1332 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #338 / 531
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1377 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: #213 / 386
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 885 entries

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

Best score: 34
Best player score: 50
Position: #220 / 289
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1118 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #188 / 311
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1485 / 3581
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6563 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 43
Position: #1000 / 1617
Number of attempts: 2