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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: 23
Position: #2543 / 7503
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #690 / 1291
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1100 / 3898
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1674 / 1910
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #197 / 638
Number of attempts: 8

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: 15
Position: #209 / 644
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2399 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #166 / 767
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #868 / 1667
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #463 / 708
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2240 / 4246
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #679 / 1277
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 344 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: #79 / 177
Number of attempts: 3

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: #64 / 123
Number of attempts: 2

Fun With The Diagonal - 110 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #81 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #746 / 2153
Number of attempts: 6

Pretty multi-line bash - 240 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #68 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 709 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #59 / 165
Number of attempts: 4

Paragraph sort - 456 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #97 / 126
Number of attempts: 3

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: #46 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #189 / 431
Number of attempts: 4

Inner hyphens - 145 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #60 / 86
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 829 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #96 / 186
Number of attempts: 8

Alsa configuration - 528 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #75 / 130
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: 20
Position: #218 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #162 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

From A to B - 603 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #23 / 160
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #230 / 1196
Number of attempts: 5

Logging with key - 342 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #72 / 89
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1690 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #187 / 454
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: 23
Position: #108 / 291
Number of attempts: 3

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: 16
Position: #68 / 98
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: 9
Position: #114 / 242
Number of attempts: 4

Condensed Cases - 820 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 / 251
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 438 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #115 / 210
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1301 / 4218
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #636 / 1143
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #255 / 358
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2044 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: 14
Position: #357 / 591
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #993 / 3711
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1663 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: #353 / 522
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1557 / 3986
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1151 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #295 / 456
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: #380 / 776
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #666 / 786
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2197 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #425 / 679
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1068 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #97 / 424
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5114 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #426 / 1759
Number of attempts: 3

remove dupes from array - 1362 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: 24
Position: #234 / 339
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #417 / 658
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2090 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: 13
Position: #209 / 529
Number of attempts: 4

The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #222 / 539
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1080 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #105 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1766 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #461 / 648
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1572 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #383 / 610
Number of attempts: 3

Jeremiah Goyette
Twitter: @JeremiahGoyette

Software Engineer at @epicomcorp. PhD Music Theory, Eastman School of Music