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switch variable - 4806 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
Increment each number - 874 entries
Increment each number individually by one
-a-b-c- - 3008 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
attr_aligner - 3282 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
Search and Replace 0 - 4479 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
Split line with dots - 2049 entries
This line is too long, split it.
Put the months in order - 817 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
Alphabet soup - 228 entries
Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way
multiple cursor alternative - 1375 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
Cool or not? - 698 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
quotes inside quotes - 2973 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 :)
That hyphen - 2411 entries
"vim vi improved"
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 661 entries
Clean and group.
Delete to the end of the current line - 692 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
Extend shell script - 29 entries
Just add some more stuff
From argument to object - 1232 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?
html paragraph to table - 551 entries
reformat html paragraph to table
convert yml into java pojo field - 784 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
Extract argument from function - 2146 entries
The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.
replacing each line of a block selection - 2706 entries
replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts
Capitalize the Names - 149 entries
I want to capitalize the names in quotes, but just the people's names, not the file names.
Data reformat - 132 entries
Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 568 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
Don't know what this is - 1884 entries
Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2733 entries
Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.
comment and uncomment code inline - 950 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.
Vertical Limit - 2264 entries
transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings
Python: Def to Lambda - 84 entries
LAMBDA!!!
Space out the alphabet - 1482 entries
Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.
Turn the x - 83 entries
Turn the x to a +
Adam's challenge - 889 entries
Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.
Saving the hashes(#) - 1876 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.
Missing Library and a Typo - 784 entries
I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.
Switch function arguments - 1899 entries
How to switch two arguments of a function.
move titles next to url, in quotes - 406 entries
had trouble with something similar
Refactor typescript arrow function type - 216 entries
Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read
Align commas - 957 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.
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 765 entries
Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.
Letter case trickery - 1481 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.
Make it more readable - 1818 entries
Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable
Order and join - 813 entries
There's something special about the input order.
ASCII-art Histogram - 239 entries
Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)
comments galore - 930 entries
Basic comment reformatting
Numbering a List - 1766 entries
Pretty simple, number the list.
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1412 entries
Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.
Make HTML List - 924 entries
Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.
Shebangs for all - 1690 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.
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 368 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/
Learn some german verbs - 440 entries
The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1056 entries
Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.