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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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 / 7363
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #135 / 1257
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #158 / 3842
Number of attempts: 8

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #108 / 630
Number of attempts: 8

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #165 / 700
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2840 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 / 635
Number of attempts: 5

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #649 / 744
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #475 / 1585
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11358 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #810 / 4163
Number of attempts: 4

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 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: #30 / 364
Number of attempts: 6

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 63 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 / 37
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #56 / 1258
Number of attempts: 10

Combines all items - 303 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 / 137
Number of attempts: 6

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #23 / 75
Number of attempts: 9

Paragraph breaks - 505 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #22 / 165
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #212 / 418
Number of attempts: 2

Change attribute to getter - 133 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #16 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

Alsa configuration - 491 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #40 / 125
Number of attempts: 7

From A to B - 564 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #36 / 155
Number of attempts: 9

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #57 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #68 / 440
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 996 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #107 / 284
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #519 / 4161
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #193 / 1129
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #225 / 268
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #54 / 293
Number of attempts: 11

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 28
Position: #326 / 692
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: #895 / 1072
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12854 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #737 / 3945
Number of attempts: 9

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #220 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 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 / 473
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2437 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #55 / 736
Number of attempts: 7

Exchanging Quotes - 821 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #7 / 225
Number of attempts: 6

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 973 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #4 / 185
Number of attempts: 15

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #81 / 640
Number of attempts: 4

HTML to Haml - 842 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #11 / 202
Number of attempts: 13

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 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: #166 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1912 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 / 500
Number of attempts: 3

Sorting paragraphs - 505 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 156
Number of attempts: 12

Get rid of html tags - 368 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #5 / 217
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3330 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #398 / 735
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6548 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #154 / 1612
Number of attempts: 11