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Simple, Practical, and Common - 32953 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: #284 / 7275
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18395 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #130 / 3793
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4641 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #315 / 1857
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2103 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #135 / 623
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 592 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #231 / 357
Number of attempts: 2

From argument to object - 1262 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: 17
Position: #85 / 417
Number of attempts: 7

Every other line - 2829 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #6 / 686
Number of attempts: 10

Copy three lines - 2801 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #278 / 625
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #513 / 1549
Number of attempts: 6

That hyphen - 2500 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #102 / 683
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11141 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #544 / 4114
Number of attempts: 1

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 78 entries

Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #5 / 36
Number of attempts: 4

Team names - 1777 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #127 / 570
Number of attempts: 4

Interweave two blocks of text - 584 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #20 / 205
Number of attempts: 5

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 48 entries

I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #16 / 29
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5436 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #103 / 1228
Number of attempts: 17

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 798 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: #15 / 273
Number of attempts: 4

Combines all items - 271 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #47 / 123
Number of attempts: 6

Vice versa - 7535 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #671 / 2048
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 970 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #103 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 395 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #18 / 111
Number of attempts: 7

Change attribute to getter - 111 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #17 / 48
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2312 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #102 / 431
Number of attempts: 9

Swap assigned value - 561 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #90 / 236
Number of attempts: 8

Cartesian product - 217 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #4 / 91
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4184 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #159 / 1167
Number of attempts: 11

I forgot quotes - 15748 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #337 / 4116
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3118 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #143 / 1112
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #515 / 3638
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #627 / 3919
Number of attempts: 5

Word frequency alignment - 245 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #101 / 146
Number of attempts: 3

Circle in a square - 125 entries

Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #10 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 479 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #35 / 182
Number of attempts: 6

A simple change - 401 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #38 / 177
Number of attempts: 8

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 160 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #16 / 97
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1015 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #115 / 420
Number of attempts: 4

Recursively Palindrome - 234 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #2 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2370 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #229 / 718
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 2800 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #261 / 735
Number of attempts: 5

Remove semicolons after expressions - 568 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #97 / 241
Number of attempts: 6

switch variable - 4944 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #920 / 1708
Number of attempts: 3

Sort the cardinal numbers - 280 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #43 / 141
Number of attempts: 7

Make it more readable - 1905 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #473 / 625
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 502 entries

I recently needed to send an e-mail to our marketing department listing allowed merge tags for our MailChimp campaigns. The allowed merge tags were determined from a PHP array in one of our PHP classes. I transformed the PHP class to MailChimp's syntax and sent the e-mail. It was, however, a long, laborious process. I'm still fairly new to Vim and would love to see how an expert Vim user would tackle one of my own, real-world problems. Thanks and have fun!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #23 / 144
Number of attempts: 10

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1172 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #85 / 386
Number of attempts: 3

A Simple One - 934 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #471 / 617
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 597 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #59 / 226
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 772 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #41 / 432
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 591 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #16 / 378
Number of attempts: 2

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 436 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #133 / 223
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 978 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #111 / 329
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat most common surnames - 593 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #54 / 187
Number of attempts: 6

Sort and add attributes - 1207 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #352 / 489
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11657 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #395 / 3418
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 41
Position: #839 / 1486
Number of attempts: 2

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