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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 34
Position: #6330 / 7513
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4883 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #247 / 1914
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #130 / 772
Number of attempts: 7

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #401 / 1674
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #75 / 711
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1936 / 4255
Number of attempts: 4

Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #40 / 276
Number of attempts: 11

Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1729 / 2157
Number of attempts: 2

Restore order to the alphabet - 209 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #30 / 73
Number of attempts: 7

Mirror Symmetry - 844 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #27 / 272
Number of attempts: 5

Entries sort - 108 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: #14 / 43
Number of attempts: 4

Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #897 / 1200
Number of attempts: 3

camel riding - 815 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #32 / 284
Number of attempts: 5

readability - 340 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #56 / 155
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1693 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #33 / 457
Number of attempts: 8

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #90 / 291
Number of attempts: 8

Line 'em up! - 427 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: 17
Position: #18 / 116
Number of attempts: 7

Shuffled numbers - 255 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: #26 / 99
Number of attempts: 4

Mute the second method of this script - 464 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #93 / 245
Number of attempts: 3

Condensed Cases - 827 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: #31 / 254
Number of attempts: 10

I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #230 / 4224
Number of attempts: 11

-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #111 / 1146
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1052 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #27 / 361
Number of attempts: 7

Gray area - 763 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #79 / 276
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1207 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #33 / 309
Number of attempts: 11

Don't know what this is - 2067 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: #45 / 595
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 911 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #155 / 450
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1235 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #32 / 259
Number of attempts: 13

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #765 / 3716
Number of attempts: 5

attr_aligner - 3566 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #96 / 710
Number of attempts: 13

Letter case trickery - 1686 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: #135 / 525
Number of attempts: 8

quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: #200 / 1093
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #592 / 3991
Number of attempts: 5

Saving the hashes(#) - 2116 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: #32 / 488
Number of attempts: 12

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #35 / 778
Number of attempts: 14

replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #184 / 789
Number of attempts: 7

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #366 / 1764
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1493 / 3902
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 32
Position: #130 / 1889
Number of attempts: 10