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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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 / 7517
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #135 / 1294
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #158 / 3904
Number of attempts: 8

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #108 / 639
Number of attempts: 8

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #168 / 712
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2924 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 / 647
Number of attempts: 5

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #675 / 773
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #475 / 1675
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #810 / 4258
Number of attempts: 4

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1052 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: #36 / 400
Number of attempts: 6

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 75 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 / 42
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #56 / 1281
Number of attempts: 10

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: #27 / 143
Number of attempts: 6

Pretty multi-line bash - 256 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #23 / 80
Number of attempts: 9

Paragraph breaks - 550 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #22 / 172
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #212 / 433
Number of attempts: 2

Change attribute to getter - 182 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #16 / 67
Number of attempts: 3

Alsa configuration - 551 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #40 / 132
Number of attempts: 7

From A to B - 628 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #36 / 163
Number of attempts: 9

camel riding - 817 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #57 / 285
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #68 / 458
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 1052 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #111 / 292
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #519 / 4225
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #193 / 1147
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #231 / 277
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #54 / 310
Number of attempts: 11

attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #337 / 711
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: #906 / 1094
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #753 / 3991
Number of attempts: 9

The name of the game - 696 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #220 / 369
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 2116 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 / 488
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #55 / 778
Number of attempts: 7

Exchanging Quotes - 878 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #7 / 234
Number of attempts: 6

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1046 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #4 / 199
Number of attempts: 15

Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #81 / 658
Number of attempts: 4

HTML to Haml - 905 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #13 / 207
Number of attempts: 13

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1313 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: #176 / 419
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2103 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 / 533
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting paragraphs - 568 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 169
Number of attempts: 12

Get rid of html tags - 465 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 / 262
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4054 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #469 / 866
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 32
Position: #165 / 1893
Number of attempts: 11