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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33745 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: #1297 / 7448
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #928 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18777 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1225 / 3876
  • Number of attempts: 10
Swap values inside brackets - 2515 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #287 / 584
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1223 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2898 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #300 / 858
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #338 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3881 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #467 / 879
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2922 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #391 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 19
  • Position: #686 / 756
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #482 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #525 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11497 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2394 / 4215
  • 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: 50
  • Position: #212 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #113 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #810 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #231 / 294
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: #116 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7966 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #942 / 2143
  • Number of attempts: 3
Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #183 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph breaks - 527 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #131 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1069 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #362 / 428
  • Number of attempts: 2
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #141 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 19
  • Position: #205 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #137 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #134 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #735 / 1192
  • Number of attempts: 3
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #223 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #198 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1692 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #977 / 1138
  • 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: #266 / 586
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10695 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2349 / 3694
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3523 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #440 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3178 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: 16
  • Position: #641 / 1084
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2366 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 1
Readable Rubyhash - 268 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: 23
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #73 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2564 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #300 / 759
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #403 / 779
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #917 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13068 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1592 / 3757
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7212 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #1062 / 1772
  • Number of attempts: 3
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