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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: 27
Position: #3796 / 7330
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #682 / 1250
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4717 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1187 / 1874
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #375 / 625
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2869 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #524 / 695
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2825 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #534 / 631
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2283 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #614 / 739
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #984 / 1578
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2530 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #456 / 690
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3728 / 4152
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 45
Position: #122 / 265
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5514 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #894 / 1249
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 316 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: #82 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #97 / 120
Number of attempts: 1

underscore_to_camelCase - 160 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #51 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7675 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1236 / 2078
Number of attempts: 1

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #48 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

7th Birthday - 185 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #47 / 72
Number of attempts: 5

C Reformatting - 688 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 72
Position: #144 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 421 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #98 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph breaks - 497 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #145 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

Array of characters - 135 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 40
Position: #23 / 41
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #203 / 414
Number of attempts: 2

Mirrored text - 163 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #49 / 69
Number of attempts: 2

lipsum lines - 248 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #54 / 90
Number of attempts: 2

Angular naming conventions - 287 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: 22
Position: #80 / 112
Number of attempts: 2

Replace and keep the case - 405 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #74 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #160 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #67 / 123
Number of attempts: 6

Align commas - 1049 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: 17
Position: #168 / 241
Number of attempts: 3

A grid of punctuation - 120 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #21 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #93 / 135
Number of attempts: 2

Array transposition - 2345 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #292 / 439
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 793 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 11
Position: #122 / 265
Number of attempts: 4

From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #128 / 154
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4228 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #937 / 1179
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 765 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #127 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1610 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #219 / 438
Number of attempts: 5

Fix the XML - 962 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #138 / 280
Number of attempts: 3

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #209 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 777 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: 14
Position: #139 / 240
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3161 / 4146
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #956 / 1124
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 987 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #251 / 348
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 713 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #94 / 265
Number of attempts: 5

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1108 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #198 / 293
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 1961 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: #351 / 576
Number of attempts: 3

Two become one - 710 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: 31
Position: #104 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 857 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #376 / 429
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1157 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #87 / 245
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1019 / 3653
Number of attempts: 5

attr_aligner - 3408 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #485 / 689
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1588 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: 11
Position: #281 / 509
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: 16
Position: #627 / 1066
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2656 / 3938
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 1012 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: 17
Position: #108 / 302
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1550 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #227 / 435
Number of attempts: 3

Saving the hashes(#) - 1977 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 29
Position: #341 / 470
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1066 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #288 / 436
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2399 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #359 / 727
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 2901 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #393 / 759
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 2019 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #281 / 637
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 5012 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1397 / 1728
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #288 / 636
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1324 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: 19
Position: #115 / 328
Number of attempts: 8

Numbering a List - 1849 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #10 / 636
Number of attempts: 5

Shebangs for all - 1846 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: 12
Position: #141 / 486
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3136 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #197 / 699
Number of attempts: 6

Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1507 / 3502
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6336 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 35
Position: #368 / 1561
Number of attempts: 5