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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: 22
Position: #1416 / 7364
Number of attempts: 14

vim = 22 / 7 - 447 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 40
Position: #127 / 131
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #122 / 569
Number of attempts: 10

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #580 / 1879
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #613 / 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: 13
Position: #101 / 635
Number of attempts: 6

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: 16
Position: #534 / 744
Number of attempts: 5

Number Sort - 305 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #59 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #184 / 695
Number of attempts: 5

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: 12
Position: #249 / 314
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1130 / 4164
Number of attempts: 7

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #367 / 581
Number of attempts: 9

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 257 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #33 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #129 / 1258
Number of attempts: 11

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: 18
Position: #66 / 266
Number of attempts: 10

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: 27
Position: #278 / 287
Number of attempts: 1

Nesting SASS - 261 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #56 / 93
Number of attempts: 5

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #1844 / 2101
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 956 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #53 / 255
Number of attempts: 11

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #252 / 418
Number of attempts: 3

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: 33
Position: #237 / 241
Number of attempts: 1

convert yml into java pojo field - 829 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 32
Position: #148 / 223
Number of attempts: 4

Change your calendar - 362 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 105
Position: #85 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #656 / 1186
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 57
Position: #4154 / 4161
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #369 / 1129
Number of attempts: 5

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #201 / 431
Number of attempts: 3

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 39
Position: #88 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

Carriage return - 42 entries

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!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 45
Position: #20 / 20
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #2589 / 3667
Number of attempts: 2

Ninjas Leaderboard - 85 entries

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.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 34
Position: #15 / 39
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #479 / 1072
Number of attempts: 5

Top X - 191 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #5 / 69
Number of attempts: 12

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 25
Position: #3761 / 3946
Number of attempts: 2

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #101 / 191
Number of attempts: 4

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 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.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 53
Position: #464 / 473
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #239 / 738
Number of attempts: 6

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #156 / 652
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1212 / 1736
Number of attempts: 3

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 156 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #50 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

Insert a Markdown link - 431 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #87 / 143
Number of attempts: 2

The holy-grail may help - 345 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #145 / 205
Number of attempts: 9

Round Round - 287 entries

Round Round

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #6 / 84
Number of attempts: 22

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #372 / 512
Number of attempts: 1

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #137 / 233
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat a C golf submission - 559 entries

Take this C golf submission (for the "tiny but standards-compliant Hello World program" category, naturally), and turn it into formatted C code.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 32
Position: #109 / 200
Number of attempts: 3

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #209 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

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: 13
Position: #542 / 3581
Number of attempts: 3