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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #122 / 7384
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #906 / 3852
Number of attempts: 8

Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #159 / 573
Number of attempts: 11

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #271 / 1887
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #52 / 843
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #205 / 839
Number of attempts: 13

Extract argument from function - 2337 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #135 / 750
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #407 / 1604
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #84 / 698
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #424 / 4174
Number of attempts: 5

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 35
Position: #43 / 273
Number of attempts: 10

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #1108 / 1260
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 329 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: #45 / 173
Number of attempts: 4

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #55 / 2114
Number of attempts: 6

Lower cased and dashed strings - 48 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 59
Best player score: 70
Position: #10 / 19
Number of attempts: 3

Vim's not included features - 220 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #24 / 64
Number of attempts: 4

Restore order to the alphabet - 197 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #7 / 71
Number of attempts: 4

Assign numbers to fields - 107 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: #12 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 812 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #40 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4267 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #88 / 1188
Number of attempts: 6

camel riding - 775 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #38 / 277
Number of attempts: 4

readability - 315 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #62 / 150
Number of attempts: 2

Logging with key - 302 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #16 / 87
Number of attempts: 7

Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #38 / 442
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the XML - 1000 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #25 / 287
Number of attempts: 7

Line 'em up! - 396 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: #22 / 112
Number of attempts: 8

Shuffled numbers - 237 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: #28 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII box - 333 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #32 / 106
Number of attempts: 5

Mute the second method of this script - 449 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #96 / 238
Number of attempts: 3

Condensed Cases - 794 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: #33 / 244
Number of attempts: 8

Happy TvvO - 417 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #174 / 204
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #258 / 4166
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #120 / 1132
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1006 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #29 / 352
Number of attempts: 5

Gray area - 745 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #80 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1136 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #36 / 298
Number of attempts: 5

Don't know what this is - 1996 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: #49 / 581
Number of attempts: 6

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: #31 / 208
Number of attempts: 7

Where should I put the Newline? - 874 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #158 / 436
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1183 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #33 / 249
Number of attempts: 10

attr_aligner - 3454 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #101 / 695
Number of attempts: 14

Letter case trickery - 1598 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: #133 / 514
Number of attempts: 5

quotes inside quotes - 3128 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: #454 / 1073
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #599 / 3950
Number of attempts: 6

Hole-in-one - 1017 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: #77 / 303
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1594 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: #74 / 443
Number of attempts: 9

Saving the hashes(#) - 2008 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: #33 / 476
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #37 / 748
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 2085 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #116 / 653
Number of attempts: 7

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #372 / 1742
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1869 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #5 / 646
Number of attempts: 5

Shebangs for all - 1917 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: 15
Position: #273 / 502
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3508 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 33
Position: #596 / 758
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 32
Position: #127 / 1652
Number of attempts: 10