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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33647 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: #8 / 7425
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18749 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1564 / 3867
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4810 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #221 / 1896
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #126 / 753
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4994 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #395 / 1627
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #324 / 701
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11464 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1869 / 4202
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #31 / 273
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5673 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #523 / 1267
Number of attempts: 7

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #11 / 174
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7922 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #3 / 2132
Number of attempts: 3

Vim's not included features - 240 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #15 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

Maze path - 48 entries

Follow the given motions and mark your path with Xs. Attention: This maze is quite big (20x20), please set your terminal size to at least 82.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #5 / 17
Number of attempts: 6

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #3 / 72
Number of attempts: 5

Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #3 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #5 / 269
Number of attempts: 3

Entries sort - 90 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: 14
Position: #5 / 40
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #7 / 1191
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #107 / 281
Number of attempts: 2

swap or reverse - 126 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #115 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #15 / 88
Number of attempts: 5

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #167 / 444
Number of attempts: 5

remove all lines in first part - 211 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: 14
Position: #6 / 67
Number of attempts: 5

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #79 / 290
Number of attempts: 4

Line 'em up! - 421 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: 18
Position: #44 / 114
Number of attempts: 5

Shuffled numbers - 246 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: #23 / 96
Number of attempts: 3

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #29 / 107
Number of attempts: 3

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #91 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

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: 24
Position: #30 / 83
Number of attempts: 4

Condensed Cases - 804 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #30 / 247
Number of attempts: 6

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #98 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15997 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #203 / 4184
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #103 / 1138
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #26 / 354
Number of attempts: 4

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #38 / 158
Number of attempts: 4

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #11 / 271
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #32 / 300
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2022 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: 11
Position: #43 / 585
Number of attempts: 7

Two become one - 713 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #30 / 208
Number of attempts: 10

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #151 / 437
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #31 / 250
Number of attempts: 9

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10672 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2021 / 3685
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #95 / 702
Number of attempts: 11

Letter case trickery - 1630 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: 10
Position: #132 / 518
Number of attempts: 6

quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: 14
Position: #197 / 1079
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2242 / 3964
Number of attempts: 3

Hole-in-one - 1018 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: 16
Position: #75 / 304
Number of attempts: 6

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #72 / 446
Number of attempts: 5

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #31 / 480
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #33 / 755
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #74 / 778
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #112 / 663
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #363 / 1749
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #69 / 650
Number of attempts: 5

Numbering a List - 1932 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #3 / 653
Number of attempts: 5

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3691 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #111 / 794
Number of attempts: 10

Simple text editing with Vim - 12856 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #353 / 3707
Number of attempts: 3