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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: 26
Position: #3385 / 7275
Number of attempts: 3

vim = 22 / 7 - 424 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #74 / 130
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4641 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1594 / 1857
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2218 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #422 / 729
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4676 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1307 / 1549
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2500 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #595 / 683
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11141 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3310 / 4114
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 987 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 59
Position: #244 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 906 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 44
Position: #224 / 352
Number of attempts: 2

Extended Customer 2 - 44 entries

Format the chars

Best score: 47
Best player score: 65
Position: #7 / 19
Number of attempts: 1

Acute accents - 31 entries

Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #10 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5436 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #1080 / 1228
Number of attempts: 3

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 155 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 35
Best player score: 44
Position: #45 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7535 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1128 / 2048
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 970 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #122 / 410
Number of attempts: 1

lipsum lines - 247 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 33
Position: #57 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 283 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #90 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Sudoku table - 58 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 59
Position: #13 / 27
Number of attempts: 1

Alsa configuration - 481 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #105 / 123
Number of attempts: 1

Manual SQL - 114 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 49
Best player score: 81
Position: #38 / 44
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 15
Position: #251 / 262
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 561 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #160 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Entries sort - 76 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #26 / 35
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4184 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #898 / 1167
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 498 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #226 / 329
Number of attempts: 1

swap or reverse - 104 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #56 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

remove all lines in first part - 178 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #58 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 958 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #232 / 279
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 216 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #72 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 317 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #73 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 439 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #97 / 233
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting database text output - 206 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #62 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 392 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #184 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15748 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3093 / 4116
Number of attempts: 1

Shift down - 191 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #56 / 66
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 219 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #79 / 150
Number of attempts: 1

vim1001 - 269 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #84 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3118 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #1055 / 1112
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 962 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #228 / 342
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 233 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #95 / 112
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 432 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #115 / 152
Number of attempts: 2

120 Degrees - 441 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 28
Position: #122 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor static member invocation - 193 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 41
Position: #51 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 1951 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #489 / 572
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 845 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #356 / 422
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 351 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 41
Position: #90 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffle puzzle - 307 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #89 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 315 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #81 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3041 / 3638
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1553 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.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #337 / 500
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3030 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: 16
Position: #598 / 1045
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2847 / 3919
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 978 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #213 / 298
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 567 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #147 / 185
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 629 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #199 / 344
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 559 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #126 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1510 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 14
Position: #358 / 424
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1015 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #268 / 420
Number of attempts: 1

Enharmonic Equivalents - 54 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #29 / 33
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2370 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #566 / 718
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 791 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 39
Position: #165 / 218
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 2800 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #517 / 735
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 1982 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #381 / 627
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 953 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #323 / 387
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 663 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #218 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 4944 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1158 / 1708
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 522 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #255 / 337
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1897 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #551 / 624
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1290 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #238 / 325
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1832 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #389 / 627
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #287 / 386
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 782 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #180 / 211
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1777 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.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #378 / 468
Number of attempts: 1

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: #417 / 617
Number of attempts: 1

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #296 / 378
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1215 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #424 / 491
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 978 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #275 / 329
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 565 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 47
Position: #154 / 223
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1350 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #426 / 521
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1151 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #296 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3009 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #384 / 667
Number of attempts: 2

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: 26
Position: #2986 / 3418
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6033 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #900 / 1486
Number of attempts: 1

Gerald Tilma
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