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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33969 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: #499 / 7502
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #70 / 1290
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #45 / 3898
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1174 / 1910
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10934 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1883 / 3092
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #43 / 638
Number of attempts: 3

Copy three lines - 2909 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #362 / 644
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 5107 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #443 / 1665
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #344 / 708
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11582 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #650 / 4243
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 41
Position: #106 / 275
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #676 / 1277
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap text in quotes - 374 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #60 / 123
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #191 / 2153
Number of attempts: 6

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: 11
Position: #72 / 94
Number of attempts: 7

Paragraph breaks - 533 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #96 / 169
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #185 / 431
Number of attempts: 5

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: 15
Position: #119 / 248
Number of attempts: 6

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #107 / 270
Number of attempts: 5

Swap assigned value - 675 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #82 / 260
Number of attempts: 8

From A to B - 603 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #78 / 160
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #214 / 1196
Number of attempts: 7

Space out the alphabet - 1690 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #224 / 454
Number of attempts: 2

Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #210 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16178 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #411 / 4217
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #345 / 1143
Number of attempts: 5

Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #253 / 358
Number of attempts: 3

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: 43
Position: #100 / 113
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #966 / 3711
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #251 / 709
Number of attempts: 8

quotes inside quotes - 3198 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: #236 / 1090
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 13029 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #696 / 3985
Number of attempts: 5

Prefixes and suffixes - 649 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #95 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #404 / 785
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #900 / 1758
Number of attempts: 6

Simple text editing with Vim - 13521 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1571 / 3877
Number of attempts: 2