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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: 26
Position: #3487 / 7503
Number of attempts: 3

vim = 22 / 7 - 491 entries

pi square vim

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #78 / 136
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1636 / 1910
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2399 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #447 / 767
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1409 / 1667
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #612 / 708
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3408 / 4246
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 59
Position: #258 / 275
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1015 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 44
Position: #241 / 390
Number of attempts: 2

Extended Customer 2 - 59 entries

Format the chars

Best score: 47
Best player score: 65
Position: #10 / 22
Number of attempts: 1

Acute accents - 37 entries

Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #10 / 26
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #1126 / 1277
Number of attempts: 3

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 195 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 44
Position: #50 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1180 / 2153
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #122 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

lipsum lines - 296 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 33
Position: #61 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 342 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #101 / 121
Number of attempts: 1

Sudoku table - 104 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 59
Position: #18 / 35
Number of attempts: 1

Alsa configuration - 528 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 35
Position: #110 / 130
Number of attempts: 1

Manual SQL - 178 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 81
Position: #45 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 15
Position: #259 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 681 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #174 / 262
Number of attempts: 1

Entries sort - 101 entries

It cames to my mind a weird idea : sorting parts of my .vimrc. Take few minutes to sort out this, it's easy !

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #31 / 42
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #919 / 1196
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #226 / 353
Number of attempts: 1

swap or reverse - 130 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #63 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #62 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #244 / 291
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 254 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: 17
Position: #79 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #80 / 110
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #98 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

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: 26
Position: #66 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 438 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #198 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3169 / 4218
Number of attempts: 1

Shift down - 223 entries

Number words are back.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #59 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 245 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #79 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

vim1001 - 315 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #90 / 111
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #1085 / 1143
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #239 / 358
Number of attempts: 1

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 261 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #101 / 118
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 472 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #120 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 28
Position: #129 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Refactor static member invocation - 211 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 41
Position: #54 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2044 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: 16
Position: #504 / 591
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 897 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #365 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 384 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 41
Position: #95 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffle puzzle - 361 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #95 / 106
Number of attempts: 1

Going underground.... - 376 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #88 / 130
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3105 / 3711
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1663 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #348 / 522
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: 16
Position: #625 / 1091
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2900 / 3986
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 1039 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #220 / 306
Number of attempts: 1

Prefixes and suffixes - 664 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #158 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #199 / 366
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 655 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 39
Position: #137 / 178
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 14
Position: #376 / 456
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1151 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #286 / 456
Number of attempts: 1

Enharmonic Equivalents - 67 entries

Transform # and b to digraphs

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #33 / 39
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2629 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #606 / 775
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 864 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 39
Position: #174 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #545 / 786
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2197 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #415 / 679
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1068 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #347 / 424
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #231 / 279
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1188 / 1759
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #255 / 365
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #576 / 656
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1362 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #247 / 339
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #413 / 658
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1288 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #303 / 416
Number of attempts: 1

Assignment Alignment - 898 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #190 / 224
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2090 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #409 / 529
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1077 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #417 / 676
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #323 / 414
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #456 / 539
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1080 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #291 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat some Python - 637 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 47
Position: #168 / 243
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1766 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #519 / 648
Number of attempts: 1

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1722 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #369 / 453
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3985 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #494 / 852
Number of attempts: 2

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: 26
Position: #3345 / 3879
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7610 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 42
Position: #1038 / 1874
Number of attempts: 1

Gerald Tilma
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