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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #2546 / 7517
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #691 / 1294
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1101 / 3904
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1679 / 1915
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #197 / 639
Number of attempts: 8

Copy three lines - 2924 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 / 647
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #166 / 773
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #873 / 1675
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #466 / 712
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2242 / 4258
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #682 / 1281
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 351 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 / 181
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap text in quotes - 378 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #64 / 124
Number of attempts: 2

Fun With The Diagonal - 116 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #84 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #747 / 2158
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: 31
Position: #70 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 712 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #59 / 167
Number of attempts: 4

Paragraph sort - 479 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #99 / 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: #46 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #189 / 433
Number of attempts: 4

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: #62 / 90
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 830 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #96 / 187
Number of attempts: 8

Alsa configuration - 551 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #76 / 132
Number of attempts: 5

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: 20
Position: #220 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #165 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

From A to B - 628 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #23 / 163
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #230 / 1200
Number of attempts: 5

Logging with key - 343 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #73 / 90
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #189 / 458
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 1052 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #109 / 292
Number of attempts: 3

Shuffled numbers - 256 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: #69 / 100
Number of attempts: 2

Mute the second method of this script - 465 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #114 / 246
Number of attempts: 4

Condensed Cases - 829 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: #176 / 255
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 440 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #115 / 212
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1305 / 4225
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #638 / 1147
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #257 / 362
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2070 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: #361 / 596
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #993 / 3717
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1688 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: #357 / 526
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1560 / 3991
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1163 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #297 / 459
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #380 / 778
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #669 / 789
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #427 / 684
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1087 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #97 / 426
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #426 / 1764
Number of attempts: 3

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: 24
Position: #235 / 341
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #419 / 661
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2103 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: #211 / 533
Number of attempts: 4

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #223 / 543
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1109 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #105 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1803 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #469 / 656
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1598 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #388 / 617
Number of attempts: 3

Jeremiah Goyette
Twitter: @JeremiahGoyette

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