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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33842 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: #972 / 7468
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4656 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #172 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18826 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #249 / 3887
  • Number of attempts: 11
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #58 / 385
  • Number of attempts: 6
From argument to object - 1536 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: 18
  • Position: #195 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 3
Number Sort - 319 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #52 / 170
  • Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 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: #181 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11534 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2460 / 4227
  • Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 541 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: 24
  • Position: #71 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 6
Text to HTML Table - 185 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

  • Best score: 52
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #35 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 1
Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 27 entries

Convert from one format to another

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 80
  • Position: #9 / 12
  • Number of attempts: 1
For all cases. - 168 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #4 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 943 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #39 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #536 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hidden Message - 93 entries

Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #22 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 1
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 176 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #40 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 1009 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: 23
  • Position: #219 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 814 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #38 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: 11
  • Position: #71 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add Go XML to structure tags - 184 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #53 / 74
  • Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2436 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #312 / 452
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #312 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16089 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3338 / 4200
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10712 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1141 / 3699
  • Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12991 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #797 / 3976
  • Number of attempts: 7
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #108 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 4
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