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convert yml into java pojo field - 752 entries

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

Search and Replace 0 - 4346 entries

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

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 519 entries

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

quotes inside quotes - 2885 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 :)

From argument to object - 1184 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?

That hyphen - 2296 entries

"vim vi improved"

ASCII-art Histogram - 208 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 ;-)

calculations - 167 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Extract argument from function - 2090 entries

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

move titles next to url, in quotes - 377 entries

had trouble with something similar

change parenthesis - 211 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

replacing each line of a block selection - 2620 entries

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

Song Transcription Oops - 183 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Don't know what this is - 1822 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

comment and uncomment code inline - 892 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.

Adam's challenge - 852 entries

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

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 136 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2678 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Missing Library and a Typo - 768 entries

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

Vertical Limit - 2189 entries

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

Space out the alphabet - 1436 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Remove quotes after first field - 198 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Extract wireshark capture filter - 135 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Join 'em - 188 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Saving the hashes(#) - 1826 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.

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 750 entries

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

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 355 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/

Switch function arguments - 1866 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Order and join - 780 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Build a six - 245 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Align commas - 907 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.

Letter case trickery - 1451 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 - 1785 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Learn some german verbs - 415 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

comments galore - 913 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Around the clock - 150 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

Simple format (2) - 253 entries

try again!

Make HTML List - 917 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Numbering a List - 1756 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Reformat Cura settings - 99 entries

Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json

Scrambled numbers - 753 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 88 entries