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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33270 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: #213 / 7339
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4719 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #321 / 1875
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2292 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #150 / 740
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #422 / 1581
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2543 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #109 / 692
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11339 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2070 / 4157
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1018 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #19 / 267
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5521 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #427 / 1251
Number of attempts: 8

FoodCritic023: Prefer conditional attributes - 178 entries

FoodCritic (www.foodcritic.io) is a lint tool for your Chef (learn.chef.io) cookbooks. FC023 indicates that you should prefer Chef guards over Ruby conditions. This challenge expects you to be able to fix this issue in a sample cookbook, given the FoodCritic output: ================================================================ FC023: Prefer conditional attributes: cookbooks/foo/recipes/default.rb:25 ================================================================ See http://www.foodcritic.io/#FC023 for more details about the changes being made.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #2 / 51
Number of attempts: 5

Add to end of each line... kinda - 316 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: #70 / 166
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7720 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #130 / 2085
Number of attempts: 7

Vim's not included features - 192 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #25 / 60
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #112 / 414
Number of attempts: 3

lipsum lines - 248 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #9 / 90
Number of attempts: 7

Angular naming conventions - 287 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: 18
Position: #28 / 112
Number of attempts: 5

Replace and keep the case - 405 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #21 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 793 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #52 / 265
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4238 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #162 / 1180
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #45 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

readability - 310 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #65 / 147
Number of attempts: 3

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #17 / 86
Number of attempts: 5

Space out the alphabet - 1610 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #47 / 438
Number of attempts: 4

Fix the XML - 962 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #33 / 280
Number of attempts: 6

Line 'em up! - 387 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: #24 / 108
Number of attempts: 8

Shuffled numbers - 228 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: #30 / 92
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII box - 325 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #33 / 104
Number of attempts: 3

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #105 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 777 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: #40 / 240
Number of attempts: 5

Happy TvvO - 396 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #109 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15894 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #344 / 4153
Number of attempts: 11

-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #147 / 1124
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 987 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #35 / 348
Number of attempts: 7

Gray area - 720 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #15 / 266
Number of attempts: 5

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1108 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #268 / 293
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 1961 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: #60 / 576
Number of attempts: 6

Two become one - 710 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: #32 / 205
Number of attempts: 4

Where should I put the Newline? - 857 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #168 / 429
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1157 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #37 / 245
Number of attempts: 8

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10607 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #892 / 3659
Number of attempts: 5

attr_aligner - 3429 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #104 / 690
Number of attempts: 10

Letter case trickery - 1588 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: #139 / 509
Number of attempts: 5

quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: #222 / 1066
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12824 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #638 / 3939
Number of attempts: 6

Hole-in-one - 1012 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: #78 / 302
Number of attempts: 7

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1550 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: #77 / 435
Number of attempts: 8

Saving the hashes(#) - 1978 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: #35 / 471
Number of attempts: 7

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1068 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #92 / 436
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2409 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #43 / 730
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 2912 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #78 / 761
Number of attempts: 9

Switch function arguments - 2035 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #122 / 641
Number of attempts: 6

switch variable - 5016 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #390 / 1729
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1940 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #74 / 637
Number of attempts: 6

remove dupes from array - 1324 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: 17
Position: #65 / 328
Number of attempts: 8

Numbering a List - 1849 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #100 / 636
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 1860 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: 11
Position: #39 / 488
Number of attempts: 8

Change the content of a string - 1442 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #156 / 546
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3206 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #99 / 710
Number of attempts: 11

Simple text editing with Vim - 12050 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #399 / 3530
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6374 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #136 / 1573
Number of attempts: 7

Aleksey Zhidkov
Twitter: @AlexeyZhidkov

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. (c) Socrates