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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33735 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: #2526 / 7445
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #685 / 1274
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18766 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1093 / 3873
Number of attempts: 7

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1665 / 1897
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #196 / 635
Number of attempts: 8

Copy three lines - 2875 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #207 / 641
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #166 / 755
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #851 / 1630
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #461 / 701
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11494 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2232 / 4213
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #673 / 1269
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 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 / 174
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #63 / 122
Number of attempts: 2

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #80 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7952 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #742 / 2139
Number of attempts: 6

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #67 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 690 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #58 / 163
Number of attempts: 4

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #96 / 125
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting a glossary - 131 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 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #189 / 425
Number of attempts: 4

Inner hyphens - 136 entries

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

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #59 / 82
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #95 / 184
Number of attempts: 8

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #74 / 128
Number of attempts: 5

Align commas - 1097 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: #217 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #161 / 269
Number of attempts: 2

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #23 / 159
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #230 / 1192
Number of attempts: 5

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 36
Position: #71 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #184 / 446
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #107 / 290
Number of attempts: 3

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: 16
Position: #67 / 96
Number of attempts: 2

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #114 / 239
Number of attempts: 4

Condensed Cases - 804 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 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #115 / 206
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16034 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1293 / 4192
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #633 / 1138
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #252 / 354
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2024 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: #354 / 586
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #993 / 3691
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1630 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: #350 / 518
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1549 / 3969
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #291 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2552 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #372 / 757
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #660 / 778
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2147 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #417 / 666
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #97 / 419
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #426 / 1749
Number of attempts: 3

remove dupes from array - 1358 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: #233 / 336
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #414 / 654
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2018 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: #204 / 519
Number of attempts: 4

The Cake is a Lie - 1365 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #222 / 532
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1063 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #105 / 346
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1593 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #424 / 594
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1477 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #365 / 575
Number of attempts: 3

Jeremiah Goyette
Twitter: @JeremiahGoyette

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