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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33649 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: 22
Position: #822 / 7426
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values - 4627 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #418 / 1270
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18749 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1116 / 3867
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4810 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #431 / 1896
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #210 / 634
Number of attempts: 9

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #154 / 703
Number of attempts: 4

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: 15
Position: #217 / 640
Number of attempts: 4

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #179 / 753
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4999 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #853 / 1628
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #148 / 701
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11464 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2330 / 4202
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5673 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #468 / 1267
Number of attempts: 7

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #17 / 259
Number of attempts: 5

Assign numbers to fields - 116 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #19 / 62
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #265 / 1191
Number of attempts: 1

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: 9
Position: #117 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15997 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #500 / 4184
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #187 / 1138
Number of attempts: 8

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #118 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2022 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: 11
Position: #77 / 585
Number of attempts: 10

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10672 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1049 / 3685
Number of attempts: 5

Letter case trickery - 1630 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: 9
Position: #6 / 518
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: 14
Position: #255 / 1079
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2348 / 3964
Number of attempts: 4

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: 8
Position: #84 / 446
Number of attempts: 5

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #109 / 480
Number of attempts: 9

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #298 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #53 / 755
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #193 / 778
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #135 / 663
Number of attempts: 4

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 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: 15
Position: #107 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #449 / 1749
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #78 / 650
Number of attempts: 5

remove dupes from array - 1358 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: 17
Position: #67 / 336
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1932 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #15 / 653
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1999 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: 13
Position: #205 / 516
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1349 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #228 / 528
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1588 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #165 / 592
Number of attempts: 6

Sort and add attributes - 1467 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #200 / 570
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3691 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #119 / 794
Number of attempts: 8

Simple text editing with Vim - 12856 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #452 / 3707
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7024 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 52
Position: #1447 / 1721
Number of attempts: 2

Pierre Maoui
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