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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: 29
  • Position: #4717 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1056 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #468 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #335 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 13
  • Position: #52 / 644
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2415 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #574 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 1
Format java properties - 100 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: #32 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #970 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 14
  • Position: #179 / 296
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: #53 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wrap text in quotes - 374 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #67 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1300 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 709 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #45 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 10
Sort files from hosts - 202 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #61 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 1030 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #111 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #104 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #289 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #138 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sorting database text output - 229 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: #51 / 85
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1325 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #358 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1185 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #92 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 9
Where should I put the Newline? - 897 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #387 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2202 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #580 / 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: 15
  • Position: #478 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2935 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 2
NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #101 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 7
A simple change - 479 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #118 / 197
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #924 / 1759
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 637 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #62 / 243
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: 19
  • Position: #2845 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7616 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #161 / 1877
  • Number of attempts: 9
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