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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33591 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: 29
Position: #4698 / 7410
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4610 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #580 / 1267
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18711 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 21
Position: #2394 / 3858
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4798 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1229 / 1891
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #115 / 634
Number of attempts: 9

From argument to object - 1504 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #308 / 456
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #335 / 703
Number of attempts: 6

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: 21
Position: #449 / 640
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2355 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #350 / 752
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4978 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #855 / 1621
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #355 / 701
Number of attempts: 3

comment and uncomment code inline - 1118 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #169 / 321
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11424 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2440 / 4186
Number of attempts: 1

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 48
Position: #168 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

Stairstep digits - 392 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #14 / 144
Number of attempts: 2

create arrows in a list - 112 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #21 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 978 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #170 / 268
Number of attempts: 2

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 863 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: 17
Position: #213 / 290
Number of attempts: 1

Nesting SASS - 265 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #28 / 95
Number of attempts: 4

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: #121 / 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: 20
Position: #75 / 83
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #920 / 2125
Number of attempts: 4

C Reformatting - 690 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 50
Position: #86 / 163
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #159 / 167
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1041 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #228 / 423
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #117 / 184
Number of attempts: 5

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 32
Position: #95 / 128
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1092 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 / 245
Number of attempts: 6

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #164 / 269
Number of attempts: 3

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #90 / 159
Number of attempts: 4

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #573 / 1190
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #193 / 444
Number of attempts: 6

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #173 / 290
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15974 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3210 / 4175
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #983 / 1137
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: 12
Position: #209 / 582
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10657 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #2582 / 3679
Number of attempts: 1

attr_aligner - 3498 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 33
Position: #529 / 696
Number of attempts: 4

Letter case trickery - 1624 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: #157 / 517
Number of attempts: 5

quotes inside quotes - 3157 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: #270 / 1076
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #786 / 3960
Number of attempts: 5

Saving the hashes(#) - 2053 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #299 / 479
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #377 / 754
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2998 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 33
Position: #709 / 776
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2125 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #296 / 659
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5068 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #922 / 1747
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3591 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #312 / 776
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 12712 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1589 / 3671
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6901 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 36
Position: #464 / 1690
Number of attempts: 5