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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33270 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: 23
Position: #2461 / 7339
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4517 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #550 / 1251
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18574 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1051 / 3834
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4719 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #905 / 1875
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2292 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #96 / 740
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #383 / 1581
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2543 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #286 / 692
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11339 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1759 / 4157
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1018 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #1 / 267
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5521 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #510 / 1251
Number of attempts: 1

underscore_to_camelCase - 160 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #17 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7720 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #172 / 2085
Number of attempts: 3

Free hyphen! - 156 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #7 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #152 / 414
Number of attempts: 1

Mirrored text - 163 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #11 / 69
Number of attempts: 3

Inner hyphens - 124 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #48 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 405 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #32 / 114
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #44 / 181
Number of attempts: 3

Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #27 / 123
Number of attempts: 5

Mirror Symmetry - 793 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #59 / 265
Number of attempts: 4

From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #65 / 154
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4238 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #192 / 1180
Number of attempts: 1

Rail fence transposition cipher - 70 entries

Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #10 / 24
Number of attempts: 6

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #85 / 274
Number of attempts: 2

Land of the Lost - 77 entries

Enter the tabs below the lyrics

Best score: 26
Best player score: 34
Position: #10 / 30
Number of attempts: 2

readability - 310 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #84 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Interleave lines - 143 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #12 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #39 / 86
Number of attempts: 5

Space out the alphabet - 1610 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #155 / 438
Number of attempts: 2

remove all lines in first part - 190 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: 15
Position: #16 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

Merge blank lines and properly capitalize - 72 entries

Here you need complete 2 tasks: 1. Remove all unwanted continuous blank lines and leave only 1 blank line between paragraphs. 2. Properly capitalize the sentences.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #11 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 962 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #69 / 280
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffled numbers - 228 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: 15
Position: #15 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII box - 325 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #73 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #72 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

Remove hard line breaks - 64 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #11 / 30
Number of attempts: 1

Custom McCarthy sequence - 36 entries

Generate the first one hundred and twenty numbers (starting with n=1). See here for some inspiration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthy_91_function

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #13 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 777 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: 13
Position: #77 / 240
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 396 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #89 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15894 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #148 / 4153
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #480 / 1124
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 987 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #63 / 348
Number of attempts: 4

Gray area - 720 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #72 / 266
Number of attempts: 5

Winding path - 93 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 41
Position: #11 / 40
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1108 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #30 / 293
Number of attempts: 6

Don't know what this is - 1961 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: 11
Position: #27 / 576
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 857 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #142 / 429
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1157 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #30 / 245
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10607 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #487 / 3659
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3429 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #92 / 690
Number of attempts: 5

Letter case trickery - 1588 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: 10
Position: #129 / 509
Number of attempts: 5

quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: #194 / 1066
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12824 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1388 / 3939
Number of attempts: 4

Saving the hashes(#) - 1978 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.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 29
Position: #337 / 471
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2409 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #149 / 730
Number of attempts: 5

replacing each line of a block selection - 2912 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #72 / 761
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5016 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #351 / 1729
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 701 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #64 / 248
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12050 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1385 / 3530
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6374 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 33
Position: #244 / 1573
Number of attempts: 4