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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #564 / 7513
Number of attempts: 8

Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #410 / 1293
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1369 / 3904
Number of attempts: 12

V to the i - 4883 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #391 / 1914
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #333 / 639
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #60 / 1185
Number of attempts: 7

From argument to object - 1566 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: #43 / 471
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #102 / 712
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2923 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #370 / 647
Number of attempts: 4

Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #167 / 772
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #456 / 1674
Number of attempts: 6

That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #134 / 711
Number of attempts: 5

comment and uncomment code inline - 1182 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: 10
Position: #186 / 332
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #698 / 4255
Number of attempts: 4

Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 36
Position: #69 / 276
Number of attempts: 5

Un"finnish"ed Work - 131 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #14 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

Todo list specification - 420 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #42 / 187
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1047 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: 42
Position: #132 / 397
Number of attempts: 4

Missing Library and a Typo - 954 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #57 / 223
Number of attempts: 5

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 196 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: 46
Position: #55 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 350 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: #80 / 180
Number of attempts: 5

Wrap text in quotes - 378 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #91 / 124
Number of attempts: 1

underscore_to_camelCase - 197 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #25 / 86
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #749 / 2157
Number of attempts: 6

Pretty multi-line bash - 256 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #14 / 80
Number of attempts: 4

Free hyphen! - 199 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: #75 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 479 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #59 / 128
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting a glossary - 138 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: #49 / 85
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1100 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #192 / 433
Number of attempts: 5

Mirrored text - 211 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #52 / 76
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 315 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #58 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Inner hyphens - 155 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #64 / 90
Number of attempts: 2

Angular naming conventions - 359 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: 19
Position: #62 / 124
Number of attempts: 2

Replace and keep the case - 471 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #36 / 123
Number of attempts: 7

Scrambled numbers - 830 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #97 / 187
Number of attempts: 9

Align commas - 1134 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: #39 / 250
Number of attempts: 7

Hello ${world} - 350 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #14 / 104
Number of attempts: 4

Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #93 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #144 / 214
Number of attempts: 6

Put the months in order - 1001 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 53
Position: #140 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #65 / 461
Number of attempts: 8

Mirror Symmetry - 844 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #62 / 272
Number of attempts: 5

Swap assigned value - 694 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #83 / 263
Number of attempts: 5

From A to B - 627 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #24 / 163
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #231 / 1200
Number of attempts: 6

VimGolfNight - 602 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #326 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 815 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #128 / 284
Number of attempts: 4

readability - 340 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #128 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1692 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #59 / 456
Number of attempts: 8

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: #169 / 291
Number of attempts: 2

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: 17
Position: #28 / 115
Number of attempts: 5

Mute the second method of this script - 463 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #113 / 244
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting database text output - 236 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 26
Position: #69 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 827 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: 17
Position: #205 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 439 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #117 / 211
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #432 / 4224
Number of attempts: 6

learn vim in short time - 247 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #89 / 167
Number of attempts: 2

vim1001 - 327 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #83 / 112
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #170 / 1146
Number of attempts: 8

Count both ways - 1052 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #120 / 361
Number of attempts: 4

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 264 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #50 / 120
Number of attempts: 6

Lisp Condense - 484 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #159 / 162
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #98 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 763 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #94 / 276
Number of attempts: 3

Don't know what this is - 2066 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: 13
Position: #269 / 594
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: #163 / 212
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 908 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #177 / 449
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1233 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #210 / 258
Number of attempts: 1

Split the words - 399 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: 40
Position: #86 / 115
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #999 / 3715
Number of attempts: 8

attr_aligner - 3566 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #443 / 710
Number of attempts: 3

Counting in binary - 556 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 36
Position: #66 / 118
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1686 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: #152 / 525
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: #239 / 1093
Number of attempts: 6

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1562 / 3991
Number of attempts: 5

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: 16
Position: #87 / 307
Number of attempts: 5

Define to require - 143 entries

When JSHint is enabled, there's a rule that doesn't let you have more than 6 arguments in a function, so the moment you need to add a 7th argument, you need to do a refactoring.

Best score: 62
Best player score: 90
Position: #34 / 52
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 668 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #97 / 207
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 456 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #83 / 199
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 696 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #214 / 369
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 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: #80 / 457
Number of attempts: 3

Stairs Indenting - 502 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #129 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1162 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #97 / 459
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #245 / 778
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #644 / 789
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #129 / 684
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1086 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #98 / 426
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and double space - 511 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #109 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 685 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #88 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #910 / 1764
Number of attempts: 4

The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #260 / 368
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #490 / 658
Number of attempts: 2

Line Zipper - 480 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #193 / 217
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1377 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: 25
Position: #250 / 341
Number of attempts: 3

imports alignment (python) - 721 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 24
Position: #126 / 202
Number of attempts: 6

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #351 / 661
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 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: 13
Position: #175 / 419
Number of attempts: 3

Assignment Alignment - 909 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #40 / 226
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2101 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: 14
Position: #242 / 532
Number of attempts: 8

A Simple One - 1088 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: #436 / 679
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 871 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #331 / 465
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 706 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #337 / 416
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 565 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #111 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 582 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #60 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1416 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #222 / 542
Number of attempts: 4

Context insensitive completion 0 - 605 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #96 / 255
Number of attempts: 3

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 532 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #127 / 252
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #297 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 652 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 34
Position: #33 / 246
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat most common surnames - 834 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #89 / 238
Number of attempts: 8

Change the content of a string - 1799 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #330 / 655
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1591 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #388 / 615
Number of attempts: 2

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1745 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: 20
Position: #112 / 457
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4044 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #585 / 862
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2604 / 3902
Number of attempts: 6

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 44
Position: #1192 / 1889
Number of attempts: 1

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