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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33528 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: #3837 / 7396
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4600 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #877 / 1264
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #2386 / 3855
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4795 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #415 / 1891
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #255 / 634
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #533 / 703
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #542 / 640
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11411 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #739 / 4181
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5643 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1033 / 1261
Number of attempts: 2

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 862 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: #211 / 289
Number of attempts: 4

Nesting SASS - 265 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #19 / 95
Number of attempts: 6

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 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: #42 / 63
Number of attempts: 4

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: 13
Position: #143 / 174
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: 11
Position: #42 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #87 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1038 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #353 / 422
Number of attempts: 2

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: #62 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1087 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: #203 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 294 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #97 / 139
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII Art - 87 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #47 / 54
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 14
Position: #241 / 269
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #720 / 1190
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 555 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #243 / 345
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #254 / 281
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #94 / 107
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: 10
Position: #210 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 800 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: #201 / 245
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 426 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #119 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15954 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1316 / 4170
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #640 / 1137
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 - 493 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #93 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #226 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 30
Position: #213 / 300
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2014 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: #405 / 582
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #182 / 437
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2133 / 3678
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1619 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: #284 / 515
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: #890 / 1075
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1559 / 3957
Number of attempts: 2

Pairs of numbers - 362 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: #103 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

Hole-in-one - 1017 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: #250 / 303
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 - 461 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #115 / 191
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 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: #375 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #294 / 445
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2979 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #516 / 773
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2117 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #496 / 657
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1041 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #345 / 412
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1190 / 1743
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 573 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #261 / 361
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1347 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: #256 / 334
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1926 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #411 / 650
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1228 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: #240 / 403
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1961 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: #398 / 506
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 470 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: #120 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #325 / 457
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1324 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #226 / 521
Number of attempts: 3

Make Fancy Header - 1045 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #302 / 342
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 750 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: #203 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1536 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #470 / 576
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #447 / 551
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3559 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #472 / 768
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12616 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2236 / 3650
Number of attempts: 4