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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33964 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: 26
Position: #3533 / 7500
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #420 / 1290
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1398 / 3898
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4853 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1217 / 1909
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #295 / 638
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #323 / 710
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2909 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #314 / 644
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2397 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #464 / 766
Number of attempts: 2

Start coding format - 159 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #21 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1036 / 1662
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #467 / 708
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2339 / 4240
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 43
Position: #120 / 275
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1015 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 43
Position: #184 / 390
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #535 / 1277
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: 12
Position: #83 / 177
Number of attempts: 2

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 248 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #45 / 84
Number of attempts: 2

underscore_to_camelCase - 187 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #68 / 84
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7997 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #920 / 2152
Number of attempts: 4

7th Birthday - 220 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: 28
Position: #67 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Free hyphen! - 191 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #78 / 94
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: 17
Position: #65 / 126
Number of attempts: 3

Sort files from hosts - 202 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #49 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 1009 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #99 / 263
Number of attempts: 3

Paragraph breaks - 533 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #128 / 169
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #211 / 431
Number of attempts: 1

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: #66 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 448 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #80 / 121
Number of attempts: 2

A grid of punctuation - 145 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #41 / 63
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #110 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 675 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #240 / 260
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #960 / 1196
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #237 / 282
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 331 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #128 / 153
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1687 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #332 / 452
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #171 / 291
Number of attempts: 2

Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #214 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 820 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 / 251
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 436 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #121 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #3502 / 4216
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #354 / 1143
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1030 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #263 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #99 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2040 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 / 590
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 736 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: 32
Position: #123 / 212
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 896 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #386 / 444
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #196 / 256
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2172 / 3711
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3195 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: #641 / 1089
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2694 / 3984
Number of attempts: 3

Hole-in-one - 1039 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: 18
Position: #147 / 306
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 441 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #160 / 235
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1628 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: #234 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1145 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #300 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #487 / 774
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #642 / 785
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2195 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #426 / 678
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1067 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #236 / 423
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #247 / 279
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #915 / 1758
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #262 / 365
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #350 / 658
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1287 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: 15
Position: #286 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2090 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: 15
Position: #288 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1076 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #444 / 676
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #384 / 539
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1080 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #294 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1764 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 26
Position: #461 / 647
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1568 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #384 / 607
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13509 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1602 / 3874
Number of attempts: 1