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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33948 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: #4 / 7496
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4679 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #668 / 1287
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18862 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1593 / 3896
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4833 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #183 / 1904
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2171 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #4 / 637
Number of attempts: 4

Extract argument from function - 2386 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #348 / 762
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11566 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1749 / 4238
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: 54
Position: #242 / 275
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 952 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #145 / 222
Number of attempts: 1

Create a table - 342 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #80 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

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: #51 / 123
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7990 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #866 / 2149
Number of attempts: 2

Pretty multi-line bash - 240 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #67 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 709 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 55
Position: #104 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting a glossary - 134 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #10 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Alsa configuration - 525 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #55 / 129
Number of attempts: 2

Align commas - 1105 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #147 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

ascii-art diamond - 55 entries

Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 56
Position: #16 / 18
Number of attempts: 2

A grid of punctuation - 145 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #7 / 63
Number of attempts: 2

From A to B - 603 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #120 / 160
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4323 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #23 / 1195
Number of attempts: 2

Rail fence transposition cipher - 97 entries

Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 28
Position: #22 / 27
Number of attempts: 1

swap or reverse - 130 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #8 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 331 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 153
Number of attempts: 1

Interleave lines - 208 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 34
Position: #44 / 61
Number of attempts: 3

Logging with key - 342 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #61 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1660 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #272 / 447
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #16 / 68
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #114 / 291
Number of attempts: 1

Line 'em up! - 426 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #71 / 115
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 253 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #10 / 97
Number of attempts: 3

Mute the second method of this script - 456 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #63 / 240
Number of attempts: 3

Remove hard line breaks - 77 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #18 / 35
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16156 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1541 / 4213
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #547 / 1140
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10732 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #660 / 3707
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13014 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #665 / 3981
Number of attempts: 4

Tiny column alignment - 73 entries

Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!

Best score: 33
Best player score: 40
Position: #13 / 24
Number of attempts: 8

Louis Caruana
Twitter: @louiecaruana

USAF vet, astronomy, Libertarian GOP, Linux, & soccer. Desperately hoping for an end of 1 party, 2 names government.