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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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 / 7503
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #130 / 3898
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #315 / 1910
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #135 / 638
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 860 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #231 / 446
Number of attempts: 2

From argument to object - 1552 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 / 469
Number of attempts: 7

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #6 / 710
Number of attempts: 10

Copy three lines - 2909 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #285 / 644
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #513 / 1667
Number of attempts: 6

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #102 / 708
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #544 / 4246
Number of attempts: 1

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 126 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 / 47
Number of attempts: 4

Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #127 / 594
Number of attempts: 4

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 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 / 215
Number of attempts: 5

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 72 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 / 40
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #103 / 1277
Number of attempts: 17

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 884 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 / 296
Number of attempts: 4

Combines all items - 316 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 / 141
Number of attempts: 6

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #706 / 2153
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #103 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 448 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #18 / 121
Number of attempts: 7

Change attribute to getter - 172 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #17 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #109 / 459
Number of attempts: 9

Swap assigned value - 681 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #90 / 262
Number of attempts: 8

Cartesian product - 267 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #4 / 100
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #159 / 1196
Number of attempts: 11

I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #337 / 4218
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #143 / 1143
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #515 / 3711
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #651 / 3986
Number of attempts: 5

Word frequency alignment - 302 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 / 164
Number of attempts: 3

Circle in a square - 180 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 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #35 / 199
Number of attempts: 6

A simple change - 479 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #38 / 197
Number of attempts: 8

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 212 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: #22 / 110
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1151 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #115 / 456
Number of attempts: 4

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #2 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #248 / 776
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #281 / 786
Number of attempts: 5

Remove semicolons after expressions - 671 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #97 / 266
Number of attempts: 6

switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #943 / 1759
Number of attempts: 3

Sort the cardinal numbers - 315 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #43 / 149
Number of attempts: 7

Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #495 / 656
Number of attempts: 2

PHP Array Syntax -> MailChimp Merge Syntax - 550 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 / 151
Number of attempts: 10

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1288 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 / 416
Number of attempts: 3

A Simple One - 1077 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 / 676
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 compat - 643 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 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 865 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #41 / 464
Number of attempts: 2

Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #16 / 414
Number of attempts: 2

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 514 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #133 / 249
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1080 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #113 / 352
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat most common surnames - 813 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #69 / 235
Number of attempts: 6

Sort and add attributes - 1572 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #441 / 610
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 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 / 3879
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7614 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 41
Position: #964 / 1876
Number of attempts: 2

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