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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #1813 / 7513
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #441 / 1293
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #1019 / 1562
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #967 / 3904
Number of attempts: 13

V to the i - 4883 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #514 / 1914
Number of attempts: 6

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #511 / 867
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 903 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #181 / 266
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #834 / 3098
Number of attempts: 4

Bad Copy Syntax - 2088 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #429 / 543
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 28
Position: #588 / 639
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #638 / 1185
Number of attempts: 7

Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #405 / 910
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #1017 / 1901
Number of attempts: 3

multiple cursor alternative - 1591 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #328 / 388
Number of attempts: 5

html paragraph to table - 635 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 60
Position: #74 / 131
Number of attempts: 2

From argument to object - 1566 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #56 / 471
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2923 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #322 / 647
Number of attempts: 6

That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #475 / 711
Number of attempts: 4

comment and uncomment code inline - 1182 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #67 / 332
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #858 / 4255
Number of attempts: 9

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #16 / 596
Number of attempts: 5

Todo list specification - 420 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 39
Position: #140 / 187
Number of attempts: 1

Text to HTML Table - 198 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 52
Position: #16 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

Stairstep digits - 426 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #104 / 154
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 954 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #63 / 223
Number of attempts: 4

Simple addition - 351 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #34 / 128
Number of attempts: 4

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 201 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #34 / 83
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 1042 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #162 / 281
Number of attempts: 2

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 886 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: 13
Position: #92 / 297
Number of attempts: 5

Combines all items - 322 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #22 / 143
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1322 / 2157
Number of attempts: 2

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: 9
Position: #21 / 97
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 1100 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #237 / 433
Number of attempts: 1

Change attribute to getter - 182 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #25 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1134 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: 21
Position: #228 / 250
Number of attempts: 2

Hello ${world} - 350 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 45
Position: #84 / 104
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2258 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #182 / 688
Number of attempts: 3

Around the clock - 220 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #16 / 81
Number of attempts: 5

Join 'em - 258 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #71 / 157
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 882 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #178 / 418
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #331 / 1200
Number of attempts: 8

Sorting database text output - 236 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 30
Position: #78 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

increment by column in XML - 167 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

Best score: 19
Best player score: 26
Position: #42 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Happy TvvO - 439 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #140 / 211
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2224 / 4224
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #215 / 1146
Number of attempts: 7

Count both ways - 1052 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #125 / 361
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 2067 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: 13
Position: #272 / 595
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1181 / 3716
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #835 / 3991
Number of attempts: 5

paste indent correction - JS - 124 entries

You copy some javascript code from a website and paste it into vim, it does not look good!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #56 / 62
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: 27
Position: #565 / 778
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #485 / 1764
Number of attempts: 5

Compile C - 454 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 119
Position: #145 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #499 / 3902
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 49
Position: #1453 / 1889
Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 35 entries

Convert from one format to another