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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: 27
Position: #3848 / 7517
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1046 / 1294
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1409 / 3904
Number of attempts: 11

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #406 / 1915
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #421 / 639
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #425 / 712
Number of attempts: 4

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #171 / 773
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #465 / 1675
Number of attempts: 6

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #138 / 712
Number of attempts: 7

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #715 / 4258
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 41
Position: #107 / 276
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 22
Position: #973 / 1281
Number of attempts: 6

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: 18
Position: #229 / 297
Number of attempts: 1

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 258 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #9 / 86
Number of attempts: 8

Wrap text in quotes - 378 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #90 / 124
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1269 / 2158
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty multi-line bash - 256 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #71 / 80
Number of attempts: 3

C Reformatting - 712 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 74
Position: #151 / 167
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 479 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #89 / 128
Number of attempts: 3

Paragraph breaks - 550 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #114 / 172
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #200 / 433
Number of attempts: 3

Scrambled numbers - 830 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #65 / 187
Number of attempts: 9

Alsa configuration - 551 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 38
Position: #123 / 132
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1134 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: 19
Position: #206 / 250
Number of attempts: 2

A grid of punctuation - 156 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #20 / 65
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: 17
Position: #130 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #66 / 273
Number of attempts: 4

From A to B - 628 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #30 / 163
Number of attempts: 8

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #952 / 1200
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #63 / 458
Number of attempts: 13

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2900 / 4225
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #832 / 1147
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2070 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #204 / 596
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #703 / 3717
Number of attempts: 6

attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 36
Position: #608 / 711
Number of attempts: 4

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: #471 / 1094
Number of attempts: 6

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2357 / 3991
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #193 / 789
Number of attempts: 8

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #911 / 1764
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 43
Position: #1116 / 1893
Number of attempts: 2