VimGolf24049 active golfers, 261772 entries, 423 challenges
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Box it - 1237 entries
Create a box around a line.
ninja substitution - 38 entries
How can you reuse a previous substitution ?
Simple, Practical, and Common - 23292 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.
simple format - 2013 entries
make it look better.
One number per line - 11720 entries
Just give me the numbers.
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 1085 entries
easy stuff
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 231 entries
Clean and group.
One to Ten - 605 entries
Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2
I forgot quotes - 11130 entries
Oops.
Applying same text modification in several lines - 1326 entries
Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.
Cool or not? - 290 entries
abc trying to be cool or not...
Just the middle - 8843 entries
Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.
Com(m)a Trouble - 1148 entries
Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?
Resort and deup a CSV list - 61 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.
Words in parens - 10718 entries
We should all ace this, right?
Swap values inside brackets - 1234 entries
Easy challenge.
Increment each number - 325 entries
Increment each number individually by one
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 9319 entries
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !
Vice versa - 5698 entries
Little role switching.
Delete to the end of the current line - 351 entries
Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.
Simple text editing with Vim - 10206 entries
Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first
Put the months in order - 313 entries
Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.
Swap values - 3357 entries
Well, swap the values...
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 326 entries
Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.
move titles next to url, in quotes - 221 entries
had trouble with something similar
Basic renumbering - 4446 entries
Renumbering Basic.
Team names - 1361 entries
The team names are misspelled.
Collect List - 3354 entries
Convert to comma separated list.
convert yml into java pojo field - 598 entries
How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file
Array transposition - 1473 entries
Transpose two arrays into one.
Convert Application Output to CSV - 66 entries
Change the application output to comma-separated values
V to the i - 3741 entries
Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.
Build a six - 149 entries
Just enjoy building "a" floors...
Every other line - 1985 entries
AaAaAaA
Copy three lines - 1934 entries
If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5420 entries
A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.
multiple cursor alternative - 1001 entries
from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/
Split line with dots - 1754 entries
This line is too long, split it.
switch variable - 4212 entries
how fast can you switch two variable ?
From argument to object - 1038 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?
Triangular Numbers - 33 entries
Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.
-a-b-c- - 2491 entries
Put hyphens everywhere.
attr_aligner - 2874 entries
Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.
[Real World] PHP To Markdown - 14 entries
Fun refactoring I had to do in the real world. This presents several challenges: - How to create a table that fits the informations exactly - How to keep track of two informations per line while doing the refactoring - Generate the link from the actual text Have fun!
Search and Replace 0 - 3968 entries
Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.
quotes inside quotes - 2691 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 :)
Simple format (2) - 191 entries
try again!
That hyphen - 2037 entries
"vim vi improved"
Letterbox - 56 entries
Make a box!
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 229 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/