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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: 24
  • Position: #2975 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2094 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4885 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1225 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #297 / 639
  • 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: 21
  • Position: #449 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 14
  • Position: #355 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1252 / 1675
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #471 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2362 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #114 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #821 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 1
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 258 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #71 / 86
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1058 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 2
7th Birthday - 237 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #74 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 1
C Reformatting - 712 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #125 / 167
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort files from hosts - 210 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #56 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #208 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 3
Paragraph breaks - 550 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #159 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #388 / 433
  • Number of attempts: 2
Alsa configuration - 551 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #113 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1134 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #138 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 3
Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #131 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #265 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #248 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 1
From A to B - 628 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #145 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #727 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #337 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2580 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #981 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2070 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #368 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2814 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #387 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2368 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #491 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #526 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1206 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1614 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #687 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hans Yelek
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Hi, I'm Hans. I fool around with Adobe After Effects, iOS Programming, and marathons.

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