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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: 24
Position: #2997 / 7509
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #562 / 1291
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #2605 / 3902
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4864 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1154 / 1912
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #349 / 768
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1033 / 1670
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #454 / 708
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2156 / 4253
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 48
Position: #165 / 275
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1022 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 40
Position: #32 / 391
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #912 / 1277
Number of attempts: 1

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 195 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 36
Position: #25 / 64
Number of attempts: 3

Add to end of each line... kinda - 345 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: #77 / 178
Number of attempts: 2

underscore_to_camelCase - 187 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #48 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1239 / 2153
Number of attempts: 1

7th Birthday - 222 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #46 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 265 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #39 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #350 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

Mirrored text - 199 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #46 / 74
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: 34
Position: #70 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Inner hyphens - 146 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #51 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 448 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #76 / 121
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 829 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #115 / 186
Number of attempts: 1

Alsa configuration - 528 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 34
Position: #102 / 130
Number of attempts: 1

Manual SQL - 178 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 57
Position: #22 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

Restore order to the alphabet - 209 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #36 / 73
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 13
Position: #210 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 681 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #186 / 262
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #719 / 1197
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 583 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #235 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 798 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #124 / 283
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #286 / 455
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #166 / 291
Number of attempts: 1

Line 'em up! - 426 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: 28
Position: #91 / 115
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 254 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: 17
Position: #80 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 461 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #210 / 243
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 821 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: 15
Position: #173 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1661 / 4222
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #820 / 1145
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1037 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #249 / 359
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 473 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #135 / 160
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #82 / 147
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 757 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #91 / 274
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1187 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #163 / 307
Number of attempts: 4

Two become one - 736 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: 35
Position: #162 / 212
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 898 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #379 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 384 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #67 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #152 / 256
Number of attempts: 2

Split the words - 394 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #65 / 113
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2788 / 3712
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #439 / 709
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1664 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: 12
Position: #351 / 523
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: 16
Position: #634 / 1091
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2678 / 3988
Number of attempts: 1

Pairs of numbers - 387 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 42
Position: #96 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 1040 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: 19
Position: #187 / 307
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 664 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #95 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 682 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #210 / 366
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #229 / 456
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1153 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #293 / 457
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #376 / 776
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 877 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 36
Position: #122 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #480 / 787
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2204 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #291 / 681
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1071 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #235 / 425
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 742 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #192 / 280
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1414 / 1761
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2036 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #486 / 657
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1375 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: 22
Position: #182 / 340
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1944 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #273 / 659
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1293 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: 14
Position: #245 / 417
Number of attempts: 2

Assignment Alignment - 905 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #104 / 226
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2098 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: 18
Position: #389 / 531
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1079 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #427 / 677
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 468 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #74 / 145
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1399 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #382 / 541
Number of attempts: 5

Make Fancy Header - 1089 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #245 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 832 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: 15
Position: #151 / 278
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 822 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 36
Position: #163 / 236
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1779 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #568 / 651
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1576 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #383 / 611
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1733 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #245 / 455
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 1184 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 50
Position: #258 / 358
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1490 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #223 / 377
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1558 / 3892
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7649 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 43
Position: #1107 / 1882
Number of attempts: 2