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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: 30
Position: #5151 / 7474
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #1193 / 1282
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #3187 / 3889
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4830 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 14
Position: #1846 / 1903
Number of attempts: 1

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: 23
Position: #414 / 466
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #340 / 707
Number of attempts: 2

Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #492 / 642
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2376 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #716 / 759
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1031 / 1637
Number of attempts: 3

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: 9
Position: #48 / 328
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #3802 / 4230
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: 49
Position: #189 / 274
Number of attempts: 1

Todo list specification - 405 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 39
Position: #114 / 183
Number of attempts: 3

For all cases. - 168 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #41 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 407 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #97 / 149
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: 21
Position: #160 / 221
Number of attempts: 3

Hidden Message - 93 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 77
Position: #27 / 30
Number of attempts: 1

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: 21
Position: #152 / 276
Number of attempts: 4

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: 13
Position: #84 / 294
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: 9
Position: #62 / 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: 26
Position: #81 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1772 / 2146
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #103 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

Order and join - 992 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #115 / 261
Number of attempts: 7

Paragraph breaks - 527 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #156 / 168
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1073 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #231 / 429
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 814 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 39
Position: #174 / 185
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: #208 / 247
Number of attempts: 1

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: 33
Position: #68 / 74
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #837 / 1194
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #141 / 281
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3234 / 4202
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #988 / 1140
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #60 / 301
Number of attempts: 10

Don't know what this is - 2025 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: 16
Position: #521 / 587
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1148 / 3700
Number of attempts: 4

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: 13
Position: #412 / 520
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #274 / 1086
Number of attempts: 4

Vertical Limit - 2596 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #304 / 767
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #481 / 780
Number of attempts: 6

switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1587 / 1754
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: #301 / 652
Number of attempts: 4

Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 37
Position: #3604 / 3810
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 48
Position: #1375 / 1825
Number of attempts: 1