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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: 22
Position: #771 / 7500
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #135 / 1290
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #158 / 3898
Number of attempts: 8

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #108 / 638
Number of attempts: 8

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #168 / 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: 13
Position: #53 / 644
Number of attempts: 5

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: 18
Position: #668 / 766
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #475 / 1662
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #810 / 4240
Number of attempts: 4

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: 40
Position: #35 / 390
Number of attempts: 6

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 72 entries

I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #11 / 40
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #56 / 1277
Number of attempts: 10

Combines all items - 316 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #27 / 141
Number of attempts: 6

Pretty multi-line bash - 240 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #23 / 78
Number of attempts: 9

Paragraph breaks - 533 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #22 / 169
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #212 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

Change attribute to getter - 172 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #16 / 65
Number of attempts: 3

Alsa configuration - 525 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #40 / 129
Number of attempts: 7

From A to B - 603 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #36 / 160
Number of attempts: 9

camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #57 / 282
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1687 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #68 / 452
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 1050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #110 / 291
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #519 / 4216
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #193 / 1143
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #228 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1184 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #54 / 305
Number of attempts: 11

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #335 / 709
Number of attempts: 7

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: 17
Position: #903 / 1089
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #752 / 3984
Number of attempts: 9

The name of the game - 679 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #220 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 2094 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: 20
Position: #46 / 484
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #55 / 774
Number of attempts: 7

Exchanging Quotes - 864 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #7 / 232
Number of attempts: 6

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1016 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #4 / 196
Number of attempts: 15

Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #81 / 656
Number of attempts: 4

HTML to Haml - 883 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #12 / 206
Number of attempts: 13

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: 13
Position: #174 / 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: 11
Position: #44 / 529
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting paragraphs - 557 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 167
Number of attempts: 12

Get rid of html tags - 453 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #6 / 257
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3974 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #459 / 850
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 32
Position: #160 / 1871
Number of attempts: 11