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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33969 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: #30 / 7502
Number of attempts: 6

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #618 / 1559
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2153 / 3898
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10934 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1921 / 3092
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #176 / 638
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #524 / 1181
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11582 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1556 / 4243
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #50 / 594
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 48
Position: #159 / 275
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #870 / 2153
Number of attempts: 2

Lower cased and dashed strings - 51 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 59
Best player score: 93
Position: #16 / 21
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 258 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #46 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #143 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #51 / 1196
Number of attempts: 4

VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #172 / 353
Number of attempts: 1

remove all lines in first part - 223 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: 21
Position: #53 / 68
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16178 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1467 / 4217
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #166 / 358
Number of attempts: 1

Change name of a variable - 182 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #82 / 140
Number of attempts: 1

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: 34
Position: #135 / 212
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #81 / 256
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #48 / 3711
Number of attempts: 6

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Position: #553 / 709
Number of attempts: 4

Counting in binary - 556 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 48
Position: #101 / 118
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1663 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: #83 / 522
Number of attempts: 9

quotes inside quotes - 3198 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: #93 / 1090
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 13029 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #74 / 3985
Number of attempts: 6

Switch function arguments - 2197 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #258 / 679
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #239 / 1758
Number of attempts: 6

Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #349 / 656
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 510 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #63 / 213
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #330 / 658
Number of attempts: 3

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

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #207 / 414
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 637 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 46
Position: #156 / 243
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1766 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 32
Position: #604 / 648
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1569 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 47
Position: #595 / 608
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13521 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1112 / 3877
Number of attempts: 6