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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33664 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 / 7429
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4635 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #135 / 1271
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #158 / 3869
  • 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 - 2875 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 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2362 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #657 / 754
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 4999 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #475 / 1628
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11473 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #810 / 4205
  • Number of attempts: 4
Python Hello World! Reformatting - 996 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 / 381
  • 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 - 5673 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #56 / 1267
  • 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 - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #212 / 424
  • 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 - 16007 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #519 / 4186
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #193 / 1138
  • 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 - 3520 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #331 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 7
quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: #898 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12944 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #742 / 3965
  • Number of attempts: 9
The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #220 / 361
  • Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 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 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #55 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 7
Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #7 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 6
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #4 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 15
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #81 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 4
HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #12 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 13
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 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: #171 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2010 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 / 517
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sorting paragraphs - 541 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #7 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 12
Get rid of html tags - 406 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 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3691 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #430 / 794
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7033 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #155 / 1726
  • Number of attempts: 11
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