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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: #2551 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 5
That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #136 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 8
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #713 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #754 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 5
camel riding - 817 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #130 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2561 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 16
  • Position: #525 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 10
  • Position: #154 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: #245 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #713 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 5
Hole-in-one - 1041 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: 18
  • Position: #147 / 308
  • Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1163 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #104 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #435 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 5
Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #76 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 4
Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #554 / 661
  • Number of attempts: 3
The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #462 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #432 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 3
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