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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #2993 / 7489
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #559 / 1284
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #2599 / 3893
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4833 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1151 / 1904
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #345 / 760
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1021 / 1643
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #452 / 704
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2152 / 4234
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 48
Position: #164 / 274
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1011 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 / 387
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #910 / 1274
Number of attempts: 1

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 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: #24 / 63
Number of attempts: 3

Add to end of each line... kinda - 339 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 / 176
Number of attempts: 2

underscore_to_camelCase - 173 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: #46 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1236 / 2147
Number of attempts: 1

7th Birthday - 210 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: #44 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 250 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #37 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1074 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #349 / 430
Number of attempts: 1

Mirrored text - 185 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #45 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 278 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 34
Position: #69 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Inner hyphens - 143 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #49 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 438 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #75 / 119
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 814 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #114 / 185
Number of attempts: 1

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 34
Position: #100 / 128
Number of attempts: 1

Manual SQL - 160 entries

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

Best score: 48
Best player score: 57
Position: #21 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #35 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 13
Position: #209 / 269
Number of attempts: 2

Swap assigned value - 671 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #185 / 259
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #716 / 1194
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #235 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #123 / 281
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #281 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #165 / 290
Number of attempts: 1

Line 'em up! - 421 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: #90 / 114
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 246 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: #79 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 456 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #208 / 240
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 811 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: #171 / 249
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1655 / 4208
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #816 / 1140
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #246 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Lisp Condense - 460 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #134 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 505 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #81 / 146
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 749 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #90 / 272
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #161 / 301
Number of attempts: 4

Two become one - 720 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: #161 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 885 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #378 / 439
Number of attempts: 1

Vim tetris - 371 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #66 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #151 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

Split the words - 372 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: #64 / 112
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2783 / 3703
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3525 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #437 / 706
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1644 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: #348 / 520
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #632 / 1086
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2674 / 3979
Number of attempts: 1

Pairs of numbers - 364 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: #95 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 1024 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: #185 / 305
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 649 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #94 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #210 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1620 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: #228 / 450
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #291 / 450
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2614 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #373 / 772
Number of attempts: 2

Exchanging Quotes - 864 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 36
Position: #121 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #478 / 783
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2188 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #290 / 676
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #234 / 421
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 732 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: #190 / 278
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1409 / 1756
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2015 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #483 / 654
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1361 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: #181 / 338
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #271 / 657
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1277 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: #244 / 413
Number of attempts: 2

Assignment Alignment - 897 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #103 / 223
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2062 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: #386 / 525
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1070 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 / 673
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 450 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #73 / 144
Number of attempts: 2

The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #380 / 538
Number of attempts: 5

Make Fancy Header - 1079 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #243 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 806 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #148 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 795 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 36
Position: #158 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1750 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #561 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #378 / 601
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1697 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: #241 / 445
Number of attempts: 3

Braces or Brackets? - 1140 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: #252 / 349
Number of attempts: 1

Flodder-challenge - 1443 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

Best score: 27
Best player score: 37
Position: #217 / 369
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1548 / 3846
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7508 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 43
Position: #1090 / 1847
Number of attempts: 2