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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33586 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 / 7409
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values - 4610 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #135 / 1267
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18711 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #158 / 3858
Number of attempts: 8

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #108 / 634
Number of attempts: 8

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #167 / 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: 13
Position: #53 / 640
Number of attempts: 5

Extract argument from function - 2355 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #655 / 752
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4976 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #475 / 1620
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11423 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #810 / 4185
Number of attempts: 4

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 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: #34 / 379
Number of attempts: 6

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 67 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 / 39
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5645 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #56 / 1263
Number of attempts: 10

Combines all items - 313 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 / 140
Number of attempts: 6

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #23 / 77
Number of attempts: 9

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #22 / 167
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 1041 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #212 / 423
Number of attempts: 2

Change attribute to getter - 140 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #16 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #40 / 128
Number of attempts: 7

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #36 / 159
Number of attempts: 9

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #57 / 281
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #68 / 444
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #109 / 290
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15974 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #519 / 4175
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #193 / 1137
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #227 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #54 / 300
Number of attempts: 11

attr_aligner - 3498 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #328 / 696
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 3157 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: #897 / 1076
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #741 / 3960
Number of attempts: 9

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #220 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 2053 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 / 479
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #55 / 754
Number of attempts: 7

Exchanging Quotes - 854 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #7 / 229
Number of attempts: 6

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1007 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #4 / 192
Number of attempts: 15

Make it more readable - 1988 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #81 / 647
Number of attempts: 4

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #12 / 204
Number of attempts: 13

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1239 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: #170 / 405
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1989 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 / 513
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting paragraphs - 514 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 161
Number of attempts: 12

Get rid of html tags - 394 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 / 228
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3591 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #420 / 776
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6901 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #155 / 1690
Number of attempts: 11