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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: #4219 / 7450
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18784 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #842 / 3878
Number of attempts: 12

V to the i - 4824 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #443 / 1899
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 26
Position: #546 / 635
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #847 / 1886
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2922 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #329 / 706
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: 15
Position: #219 / 641
Number of attempts: 7

Extract argument from function - 2369 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #180 / 756
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1025 / 1631
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 - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #824 / 4216
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 41
Position: #108 / 274
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #1127 / 1270
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! - 176 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 / 90
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 - 132 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 / 82
Number of attempts: 1

Sort files from hosts - 195 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #57 / 77
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #105 / 260
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph breaks - 527 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #128 / 168
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1073 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #360 / 429
Number of attempts: 3

Change attribute to getter - 157 entries

Wrap attributes with a getter method.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 34
Position: #58 / 63
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 - 1097 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: #187 / 247
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a list of numbers - 299 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #129 / 141
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 - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #284 / 446
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #42 / 290
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 - 807 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: #144 / 248
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2184 / 4194
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- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #648 / 1138
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? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #280 / 301
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2024 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 / 586
Number of attempts: 4

Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #187 / 438
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 - 3525 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Position: #577 / 706
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1644 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 / 520
Number of attempts: 4

quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: #900 / 1085
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1574 / 3970
Number of attempts: 2

Hole-in-one - 1024 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: #147 / 305
Number of attempts: 4

Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #161 / 234
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 211 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #48 / 76
Number of attempts: 2

Prefixes and suffixes - 637 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 23
Position: #63 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 479 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #52 / 199
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1130 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #301 / 448
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2564 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #54 / 759
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #433 / 779
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2152 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #296 / 667
Number of attempts: 3

Remove semicolons after expressions - 663 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 8
Position: #223 / 264
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1198 / 1750
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #263 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #300 / 652
Number of attempts: 3

remove dupes from array - 1358 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: #138 / 336
Number of attempts: 5

Numbering a List - 1939 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #146 / 655
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 2046 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: #238 / 522
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 778 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: #196 / 268
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13101 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #2771 / 3768
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7230 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 48
Position: #1348 / 1779
Number of attempts: 1