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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33584 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: #4678 / 7407
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4610 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1042 / 1267
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4798 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #468 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #331 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 5
Copy three lines - 2872 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 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11423 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2403 / 4185
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1834 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #567 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 1
Format java properties - 88 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: #31 / 35
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5645 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #958 / 1263
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 862 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: #176 / 289
  • Number of attempts: 5
Combines all items - 313 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 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #66 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1288 / 2125
  • Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 690 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #44 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 10
Sort files from hosts - 188 entries

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

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #59 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 2
Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #109 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #103 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #289 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 7
camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #137 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sorting database text output - 223 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: #50 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15967 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1313 / 4174
  • Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #357 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #91 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 9
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #385 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10657 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2185 / 3679
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3498 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #570 / 696
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: #474 / 1075
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2917 / 3960
  • Number of attempts: 2
NATO phonetic alphabet - 526 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #99 / 195
  • Number of attempts: 7
A simple change - 461 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #116 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5067 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #917 / 1746
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat some Python - 604 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #60 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 12680 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2704 / 3665
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6866 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #154 / 1681
  • Number of attempts: 9
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