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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33948 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: 25
Position: #3253 / 7496
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4679 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #7 / 1287
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18862 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #139 / 3896
Number of attempts: 9

V to the i - 4840 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #328 / 1905
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10930 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #462 / 3090
Number of attempts: 2

From argument to object - 1543 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #12 / 468
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2934 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #147 / 708
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2386 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #153 / 762
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5074 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #423 / 1653
Number of attempts: 8

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #112 / 704
Number of attempts: 5

comment and uncomment code inline - 1158 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #33 / 329
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11566 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #571 / 4238
Number of attempts: 8

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 42
Position: #113 / 275
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 410 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #18 / 150
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #445 / 1274
Number of attempts: 10

create arrows in a list - 136 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #30 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 1018 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #28 / 278
Number of attempts: 4

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 884 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: #76 / 296
Number of attempts: 3

Combines all items - 316 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #14 / 141
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7990 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #298 / 2149
Number of attempts: 4

Free hyphen! - 191 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #11 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting a glossary - 134 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #29 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 1009 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #5 / 263
Number of attempts: 3

Paragraph breaks - 533 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #21 / 169
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #126 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 296 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 31
Position: #48 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

Angular naming conventions - 341 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: #31 / 120
Number of attempts: 6

Replace and keep the case - 446 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #25 / 120
Number of attempts: 4

Align commas - 1105 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #23 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #53 / 270
Number of attempts: 7

From A to B - 603 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #10 / 160
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4323 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #205 / 1195
Number of attempts: 3

swap or reverse - 130 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #46 / 70
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1668 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #48 / 448
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #136 / 291
Number of attempts: 4

Winning streak - 139 entries

Make the number on each line equal the consecutive L's or W's.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #38 / 52
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16156 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #398 / 4213
Number of attempts: 6

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #150 / 1140
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 749 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #88 / 272
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2025 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: #62 / 587
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10732 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1179 / 3707
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #225 / 1086
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 13014 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #3113 / 3981
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2615 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #374 / 772
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 3028 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #107 / 784
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #395 / 1756
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2015 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #73 / 654
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #344 / 657
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13466 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #401 / 3863
Number of attempts: 4