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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: 29
  • Position: #4728 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1058 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #468 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #336 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 5
Copy three lines - 2924 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #52 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2420 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #576 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 1
Format java properties - 106 entries

Format java properties to a different format. The value which is the string following the first '=' cannot & should not change. All periods in the key get replaced with an underscore "_" and get a prefix of "b_".

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #33 / 39
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #974 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 886 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: 14
  • Position: #180 / 297
  • Number of attempts: 5
Combines all items - 322 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #53 / 143
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wrap text in quotes - 378 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #67 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1302 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 712 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #45 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 10
Sort files from hosts - 210 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #62 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #111 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #105 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #289 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 817 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #138 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sorting database text output - 236 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #52 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1329 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #359 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #92 / 310
  • Number of attempts: 9
Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #389 / 451
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2204 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #582 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: 15
  • Position: #480 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2941 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 2
NATO phonetic alphabet - 554 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #102 / 201
  • Number of attempts: 7
A simple change - 486 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #119 / 200
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #928 / 1766
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 659 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #64 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2871 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7729 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #164 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 9
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