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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33535 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: 28
Position: #4196 / 7397
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #839 / 3855
Number of attempts: 12

V to the i - 4796 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #443 / 1891
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #545 / 634
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7897 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #840 / 1872
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #327 / 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: 15
Position: #219 / 640
Number of attempts: 7

Extract argument from function - 2354 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #180 / 751
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1012 / 1615
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #467 / 701
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11417 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #824 / 4181
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 41
Position: #107 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5643 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #1119 / 1261
Number of attempts: 2

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: 10
Position: #107 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 242 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: 17
Position: #57 / 83
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #65 / 122
Number of attempts: 3

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #70 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

Free hyphen! - 169 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #13 / 89
Number of attempts: 3

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #91 / 125
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting a glossary - 131 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #52 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Sort files from hosts - 188 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #56 / 76
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #105 / 259
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #127 / 167
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1038 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #355 / 422
Number of attempts: 3

Change attribute to getter - 140 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 34
Position: #55 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #97 / 184
Number of attempts: 3

Align commas - 1087 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: 18
Position: #186 / 244
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a list of numbers - 294 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #127 / 139
Number of attempts: 1

Restore order to the alphabet - 201 entries

The numbers are OK. The letters are wonky.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #48 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #70 / 269
Number of attempts: 5

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #113 / 159
Number of attempts: 3

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #133 / 281
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #284 / 444
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the XML - 1035 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #42 / 289
Number of attempts: 4

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #120 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 800 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #143 / 245
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15954 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2170 / 4170
Number of attempts: 4

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #93 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #648 / 1137
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #120 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #99 / 271
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #279 / 300
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2014 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: 13
Position: #265 / 582
Number of attempts: 4

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #187 / 437
Number of attempts: 2

Shuffle puzzle - 346 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #69 / 104
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3498 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Position: #569 / 696
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1619 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #154 / 515
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: #896 / 1075
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1568 / 3957
Number of attempts: 2

Hole-in-one - 1017 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #146 / 303
Number of attempts: 4

Delete unwanted lines - 408 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #161 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 210 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #48 / 75
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 629 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #62 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 472 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #52 / 196
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #300 / 445
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2522 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #54 / 751
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 2979 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #431 / 773
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2117 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #292 / 657
Number of attempts: 3

Remove semicolons after expressions - 648 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #221 / 262
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1193 / 1743
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 573 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #263 / 361
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1982 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #297 / 645
Number of attempts: 3

remove dupes from array - 1347 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #137 / 334
Number of attempts: 5

Numbering a List - 1929 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #143 / 651
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 1961 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: 14
Position: #233 / 506
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 750 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #192 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #2693 / 3653
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6824 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 48
Position: #1305 / 1673
Number of attempts: 1