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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33256 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: #813 / 7337
  • Number of attempts: 18
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 866 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #71 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #144 / 1250
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6148 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #456 / 1504
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18574 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #182 / 3834
  • Number of attempts: 8
Quote modules - 1035 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #45 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 5
Aliases for cd - 834 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #39 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 8
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #456 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10760 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1278 / 3035
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2117 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #106 / 626
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7789 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #268 / 1855
  • Number of attempts: 8
Every other line - 2877 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #171 / 698
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2828 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #48 / 632
  • Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2292 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #182 / 740
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4768 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #479 / 1580
  • Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2538 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #347 / 691
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11331 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #846 / 4156
  • Number of attempts: 4
Make HTML List - 1006 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #89 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5521 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #460 / 1251
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 837 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: 14
  • Position: #165 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 3
Combines all items - 302 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #46 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 2
replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 230 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: 15
  • Position: #19 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7708 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #259 / 2084
  • Number of attempts: 6
C Reformatting - 688 entries

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

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #4 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 4
Order and join - 924 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #27 / 251
  • Number of attempts: 7
Paragraph breaks - 500 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #23 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 6
comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #213 / 414
  • Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #45 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 4
Align commas - 1049 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: 11
  • Position: #53 / 241
  • Number of attempts: 7
Line under headers - 1964 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #156 / 485
  • Number of attempts: 2
From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #103 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4238 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #561 / 1180
  • Number of attempts: 5
Space out the alphabet - 1610 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #188 / 438
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15890 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #544 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #353 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 1961 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: 11
  • Position: #79 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10595 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1096 / 3657
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3429 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #129 / 690
  • Number of attempts: 17
quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: 14
  • Position: #259 / 1066
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12824 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1564 / 3939
  • Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 2912 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #425 / 761
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5013 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #458 / 1728
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12045 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1536 / 3528
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6369 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #257 / 1572
  • Number of attempts: 3
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