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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: #1754 / 7364
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #752 / 1257
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1244 / 3842
Number of attempts: 8

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #242 / 569
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1365 / 1879
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #370 / 840
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #599 / 1144
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #236 / 827
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #842 / 1865
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 741 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #98 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #38 / 700
Number of attempts: 8

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: #368 / 744
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #578 / 1585
Number of attempts: 4

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 538 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/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #51 / 127
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #256 / 695
Number of attempts: 7

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: 10
Position: #197 / 314
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2825 / 4164
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #226 / 581
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #306 / 1258
Number of attempts: 8

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: #79 / 266
Number of attempts: 5

42-header - 38 entries

Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #6 / 14
Number of attempts: 8

ninja substitution - 1372 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #93 / 261
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #462 / 2101
Number of attempts: 4

Lower cased and dashed strings - 46 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 59
Best player score: 74
Position: #10 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2165 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #464 / 662
Number of attempts: 6

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #100 / 203
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #69 / 242
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 791 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #126 / 385
Number of attempts: 2

Separating firstname & lastname - 120 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #9 / 55
Number of attempts: 6

move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #17 / 135
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1843 / 4161
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2373 / 3667
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: #313 / 1072
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1718 / 3946
Number of attempts: 2

Resort and deup a CSV list - 142 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 48
Position: #19 / 39
Number of attempts: 9

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #549 / 1736
Number of attempts: 2

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: #217 / 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: 14
Position: #1723 / 3581
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 35
Position: #381 / 1616
Number of attempts: 5