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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: #3880 / 7509
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #888 / 1291
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18896 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #2408 / 3902
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4864 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #415 / 1912
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #257 / 638
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #538 / 710
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2911 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #546 / 645
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #739 / 4253
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1047 / 1277
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 - 345 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 / 178
Number of attempts: 2

Fun With The Diagonal - 111 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #42 / 84
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 - 146 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #64 / 87
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 - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #726 / 1197
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 583 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #243 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 798 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #256 / 283
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 - 461 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #213 / 243
Number of attempts: 1

Condensed Cases - 821 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: #205 / 252
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 438 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #119 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1330 / 4222
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #645 / 1145
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1037 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #261 / 359
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 - 757 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #228 / 274
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1187 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 30
Position: #217 / 307
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2048 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: #411 / 592
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 898 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #182 / 446
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2151 / 3712
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1664 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: #289 / 523
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #896 / 1091
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1573 / 3988
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 - 1040 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: #253 / 307
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 532 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 41
Position: #148 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 481 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #118 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1641 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: #379 / 456
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1153 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #299 / 457
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #523 / 787
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2204 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #512 / 681
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1071 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #354 / 425
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1203 / 1761
Number of attempts: 1

The meaning - 581 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #261 / 366
Number of attempts: 1

remove dupes from array - 1375 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 / 340
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1944 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #419 / 659
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1293 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: #246 / 417
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2098 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: #412 / 531
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 489 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 / 180
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 870 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #329 / 465
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1399 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #227 / 541
Number of attempts: 3

Make Fancy Header - 1089 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #311 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 832 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: #215 / 278
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1779 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #525 / 651
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1576 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #493 / 611
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4025 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 28
Position: #526 / 857
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2372 / 3892
Number of attempts: 4