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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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 / 7364
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #416 / 1257
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1108 / 3842
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #431 / 1879
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #209 / 630
Number of attempts: 9

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #152 / 700
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2840 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #215 / 635
Number of attempts: 4

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #179 / 744
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #825 / 1585
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #148 / 695
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2326 / 4164
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #463 / 1258
Number of attempts: 7

Order and join - 956 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #17 / 255
Number of attempts: 5

Assign numbers to fields - 105 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 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #265 / 1186
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 447 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #116 / 237
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #500 / 4161
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #187 / 1129
Number of attempts: 8

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #116 / 351
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1978 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 / 578
Number of attempts: 10

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1049 / 3666
Number of attempts: 5

Letter case trickery - 1594 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 / 511
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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 / 1072
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2336 / 3946
Number of attempts: 4

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 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 / 439
Number of attempts: 5

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 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: #107 / 473
Number of attempts: 9

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #295 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2440 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #53 / 737
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #188 / 768
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #135 / 652
Number of attempts: 4

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #449 / 1736
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #78 / 640
Number of attempts: 5

remove dupes from array - 1336 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 / 331
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #15 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1912 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: #199 / 500
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #228 / 512
Number of attempts: 3

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #165 / 558
Number of attempts: 6

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #200 / 529
Number of attempts: 4

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3339 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #108 / 736
Number of attempts: 8

Simple text editing with Vim - 12286 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 / 3581
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6558 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 52
Position: #1381 / 1615
Number of attempts: 2

Pierre Maoui
Twitter: @poupougnac

I work with bytes in an unusual way • Vim lover • Angular2/React • Software Engineer at @ContentSquare