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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33948 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: #3877 / 7496
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4679 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #886 / 1287
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18862 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #2404 / 3896
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4840 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #415 / 1905
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2171 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #257 / 637
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2934 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #536 / 708
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2897 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #544 / 643
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11566 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #739 / 4238
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1044 / 1274
Number of attempts: 2

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 884 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #215 / 296
Number of attempts: 4

Nesting SASS - 296 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #19 / 100
Number of attempts: 6

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 195 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 41
Position: #43 / 64
Number of attempts: 4

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: 13
Position: #145 / 177
Number of attempts: 2

Fun With The Diagonal - 109 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #42 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 456 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #88 / 126
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #360 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

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: #63 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

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: 19
Position: #205 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 302 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #98 / 142
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII Art - 90 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #49 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 14
Position: #242 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4323 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #724 / 1195
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #243 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #255 / 282
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII box - 365 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #97 / 110
Number of attempts: 2

Mute the second method of this script - 459 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #212 / 241
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 811 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: 17
Position: #203 / 249
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 432 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #119 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16156 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1328 / 4213
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #641 / 1140
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #258 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 505 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #94 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 749 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #226 / 272
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 30
Position: #214 / 301
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2025 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: 15
Position: #407 / 587
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 885 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #182 / 439
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10732 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2148 / 3707
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1644 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: #286 / 520
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: 17
Position: #894 / 1086
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13014 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1570 / 3981
Number of attempts: 2

Pairs of numbers - 364 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 44
Position: #104 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 1024 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: 22
Position: #251 / 305
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 41
Position: #147 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 476 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #116 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1620 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 14
Position: #376 / 450
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #297 / 450
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3028 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #521 / 784
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2192 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #508 / 677
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1065 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #351 / 422
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1199 / 1756
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #261 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1361 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: 26
Position: #259 / 338
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #417 / 657
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1286 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #245 / 414
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2084 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: 19
Position: #410 / 527
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 486 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #123 / 179
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #328 / 463
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1389 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #226 / 538
Number of attempts: 3

Make Fancy Header - 1079 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #309 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 811 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #211 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1760 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #520 / 644
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1560 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #488 / 603
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3967 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #519 / 847
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13466 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2353 / 3863
Number of attempts: 4