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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: #300 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 4
vim = 22 / 7 - 491 entries

pi square vim

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #24 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4866 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #119 / 1913
  • Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #4 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #311 / 1670
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #39 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #45 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 8
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #632 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 3
Greek column realign - 61 entries

Oops one letter is missing! Shift down the second column to insert nu letter. Symbol can be entered using: <C-K>n*

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #17 / 26
  • Number of attempts: 1
Config Sections - 65 entries

Section me!

  • Best score: 43
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #8 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 2
Condensed Cases - 821 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #9 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #20 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #782 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1037 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #20 / 359
  • Number of attempts: 5
Two become one - 736 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #17 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10752 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #300 / 3713
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #322 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: 14
  • Position: #146 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #483 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 6
Hole-in-one - 1040 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: 19
  • Position: #182 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #165 / 787
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #292 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #270 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #111 / 1882
  • Number of attempts: 4
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