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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 30
Position: #5097 / 7364
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #1171 / 1257
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3157 / 3842
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 14
Position: #1824 / 1879
Number of attempts: 1

From argument to object - 1474 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?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #398 / 450
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #336 / 700
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2840 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #488 / 635
Number of attempts: 3

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: 21
Position: #702 / 744
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #996 / 1585
Number of attempts: 3

comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 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.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #48 / 314
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3751 / 4164
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 49
Position: #186 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Todo list specification - 385 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: #110 / 176
Number of attempts: 3

For all cases. - 141 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #41 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 376 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #95 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 856 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #151 / 209
Number of attempts: 3

Hidden Message - 77 entries

Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 77
Position: #26 / 29
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 957 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #145 / 266
Number of attempts: 4

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #84 / 287
Number of attempts: 4

Combines all items - 303 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #62 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 231 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #79 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1739 / 2101
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 430 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #101 / 123
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 956 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #112 / 255
Number of attempts: 7

Paragraph breaks - 505 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #153 / 165
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #231 / 418
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 779 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 39
Position: #171 / 182
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1049 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #204 / 241
Number of attempts: 1

Add Go XML to structure tags - 152 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #60 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #831 / 1186
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #139 / 274
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3207 / 4161
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #980 / 1129
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #60 / 293
Number of attempts: 10

Don't know what this is - 1978 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: 16
Position: #515 / 578
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1148 / 3667
Number of attempts: 4

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: 13
Position: #405 / 511
Number of attempts: 1

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: 14
Position: #274 / 1072
Number of attempts: 4

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #293 / 738
Number of attempts: 3

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: #475 / 768
Number of attempts: 6

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1574 / 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: 15
Position: #296 / 640
Number of attempts: 4

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: 37
Position: #3399 / 3581
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 48
Position: #1272 / 1616
Number of attempts: 1