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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: 27
Position: #3884 / 7517
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #890 / 1294
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #2409 / 3904
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #415 / 1915
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #257 / 639
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #539 / 712
Number of attempts: 1

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: 24
Position: #547 / 647
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #739 / 4258
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1051 / 1281
Number of attempts: 2

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 886 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: #216 / 297
Number of attempts: 4

Nesting SASS - 302 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #19 / 102
Number of attempts: 6

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 196 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: #44 / 65
Number of attempts: 4

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: 13
Position: #147 / 181
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: 11
Position: #42 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 479 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #90 / 128
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #361 / 433
Number of attempts: 2

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: #65 / 90
Number of attempts: 1

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: 19
Position: #207 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #99 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII Art - 92 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #51 / 58
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 14
Position: #245 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #728 / 1200
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 604 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #243 / 357
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 817 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #258 / 285
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII box - 379 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #99 / 112
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: 10
Position: #215 / 246
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #207 / 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: #119 / 212
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1333 / 4225
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #645 / 1147
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #263 / 362
Number of attempts: 1

120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #95 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #230 / 277
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 30
Position: #220 / 310
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: 15
Position: #415 / 596
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #182 / 451
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2153 / 3717
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: 11
Position: #292 / 526
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #899 / 1094
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1576 / 3991
Number of attempts: 2

Pairs of numbers - 387 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: #105 / 138
Number of attempts: 1

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: 22
Position: #254 / 308
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 539 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 41
Position: #148 / 177
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 484 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #118 / 199
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 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: #380 / 457
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1163 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #300 / 459
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: 24
Position: #525 / 789
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #514 / 684
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1087 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #355 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1204 / 1764
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #261 / 368
Number of attempts: 1

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: 26
Position: #260 / 341
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #420 / 661
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1313 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: #248 / 419
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: 19
Position: #413 / 533
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 501 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: #124 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #330 / 466
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #227 / 543
Number of attempts: 3

Make Fancy Header - 1109 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #313 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 845 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 20
Position: #218 / 283
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: 27
Position: #530 / 656
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1598 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #498 / 617
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4054 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #530 / 866
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #2381 / 3907
Number of attempts: 4