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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: #14 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 5
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 954 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #251 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add text at some column - 184 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #33 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6399 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #504 / 1564
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18911 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #194 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 7
Quote modules - 1104 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #14 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 4
add line and index - 128 entries

a missed line and index names need to be added

  • Best score: 44
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #7 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 3
Quote modules (ver.2) - 256 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #18 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #10 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 8
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2937 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #81 / 868
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10958 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1357 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #230 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 5
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 873 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #395 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5167 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #640 / 1677
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #359 / 4261
  • 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: 13
  • Position: #41 / 297
  • Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #643 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 3
Triangle of arrows - 240 entries

I made this by accident when working on another challenge. How would you go about making this?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #25 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 1
Maze path - 53 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: #9 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 8
unknown command - 176 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #24 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #40 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 8
Square numbers - 142 entries

Boring math puzzle.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #30 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #223 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1716 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 8
Remove semicolons after expressions - 687 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #148 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #984 / 1766
  • Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1315 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: 13
  • Position: #188 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 710 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #368 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 847 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #15 / 284
  • Number of attempts: 6
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