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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: 26
Position: #3537 / 7517
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #420 / 1294
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #1400 / 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: 8
Position: #1218 / 1915
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #295 / 639
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #324 / 712
Number of attempts: 4

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: 18
Position: #315 / 647
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #468 / 773
Number of attempts: 2

Start coding format - 168 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #21 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1046 / 1675
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #470 / 712
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2341 / 4258
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 43
Position: #121 / 276
Number of attempts: 1

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1052 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: #188 / 400
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #538 / 1281
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: 12
Position: #83 / 181
Number of attempts: 2

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 258 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: #47 / 86
Number of attempts: 2

underscore_to_camelCase - 197 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: #70 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #923 / 2158
Number of attempts: 4

7th Birthday - 237 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: #70 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

Free hyphen! - 199 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: #79 / 97
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: 17
Position: #65 / 128
Number of attempts: 3

Sort files from hosts - 210 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #50 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #100 / 265
Number of attempts: 3

Paragraph breaks - 550 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #131 / 172
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #211 / 433
Number of attempts: 1

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: #68 / 90
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 471 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #82 / 123
Number of attempts: 2

A grid of punctuation - 156 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #41 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #111 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

Swap assigned value - 695 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #243 / 263
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #963 / 1200
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 817 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #240 / 285
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 342 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #129 / 156
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #336 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1052 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #172 / 292
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: #217 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

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: #208 / 255
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 440 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #121 / 212
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #3509 / 4225
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #355 / 1147
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #266 / 362
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #99 / 277
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: #417 / 596
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 739 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: #124 / 213
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #388 / 451
Number of attempts: 1

Mess in revision history - 1238 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #198 / 260
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2174 / 3717
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: #642 / 1093
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2698 / 3991
Number of attempts: 3

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: 18
Position: #147 / 307
Number of attempts: 1

Delete unwanted lines - 450 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #160 / 236
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: 9
Position: #236 / 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: #303 / 459
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #489 / 778
Number of attempts: 1

replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #645 / 789
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #429 / 684
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1087 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #237 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 759 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: #249 / 281
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #918 / 1764
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #262 / 368
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1969 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #352 / 661
Number of attempts: 2

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: 15
Position: #290 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

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: 15
Position: #290 / 533
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1093 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 / 681
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #387 / 543
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1109 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #298 / 356
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: 26
Position: #470 / 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: 34
Position: #391 / 617
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: 14
Position: #1611 / 3907
Number of attempts: 1