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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: #1052 / 7364
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #200 / 1257
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #855 / 3842
Number of attempts: 8

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #345 / 630
Number of attempts: 3

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #229 / 386
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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: 20
Position: #131 / 376
Number of attempts: 6

From argument to object - 1474 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: 17
Position: #67 / 450
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #214 / 700
Number of attempts: 6

Copy three lines - 2840 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #78 / 635
Number of attempts: 10

Array propagate - 319 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 24
Position: #33 / 115
Number of attempts: 4

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #193 / 744
Number of attempts: 5

Search and Replace 0 - 4790 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #505 / 1585
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #171 / 695
Number of attempts: 4

comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 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: #76 / 314
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1028 / 4164
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #61 / 581
Number of attempts: 4

Interweave two blocks of text - 631 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #19 / 211
Number of attempts: 5

Missing Library and a Typo - 856 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: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #64 / 209
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 20
Position: #804 / 1258
Number of attempts: 4

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 161 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #45 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 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: #99 / 287
Number of attempts: 4

Add to end of each line... kinda - 325 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #89 / 171
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap text in quotes - 349 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #34 / 120
Number of attempts: 4

Vice versa - 7803 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #1060 / 2100
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 956 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #43 / 255
Number of attempts: 5

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #238 / 418
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 779 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #31 / 182
Number of attempts: 7

Hello ${world} - 299 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #21 / 94
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #91 / 443
Number of attempts: 10

Swap assigned value - 624 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #87 / 249
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #342 / 1186
Number of attempts: 6

readability - 312 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #72 / 148
Number of attempts: 2

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #20 / 86
Number of attempts: 6

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #79 / 440
Number of attempts: 9

Condensed Cases - 788 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #50 / 242
Number of attempts: 6

Happy TvvO - 407 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #126 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #669 / 4161
Number of attempts: 7

Lisp Condense - 438 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #45 / 154
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #104 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 1978 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: #89 / 578
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #195 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1161 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #48 / 247
Number of attempts: 7

Shuffle puzzle - 317 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #17 / 101
Number of attempts: 6

Going underground.... - 339 entries

Simple reformatting: in this case changing from the format London underground supplies its customers with, to the format that Google Calendar likes...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #21 / 125
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1171 / 3666
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1594 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: 9
Position: #15 / 511
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #811 / 3946
Number of attempts: 4

Hole-in-one - 1012 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #88 / 302
Number of attempts: 7

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #33 / 191
Number of attempts: 6

A simple change - 442 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #37 / 189
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #227 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #16 / 163
Number of attempts: 8

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #93 / 439
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 448 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #18 / 193
Number of attempts: 5

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 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: 21
Position: #113 / 473
Number of attempts: 6

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #112 / 441
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #145 / 652
Number of attempts: 5

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #113 / 403
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse and double space - 489 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #60 / 194
Number of attempts: 4

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #114 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #96 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #490 / 1736
Number of attempts: 4

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #272 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Replacing some words - 419 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #27 / 148
Number of attempts: 8

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #86 / 640
Number of attempts: 6

remove dupes from array - 1336 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #72 / 331
Number of attempts: 10

imports alignment (python) - 661 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #45 / 194
Number of attempts: 9

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #26 / 639
Number of attempts: 9

Assignment Alignment - 832 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #46 / 215
Number of attempts: 10

Shebangs for all - 1912 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #48 / 500
Number of attempts: 7

Ruby 1.9 compat - 610 entries

Remember when Ruby supported `when <expr> :`? Well, it doesn't in 1.9, so let's make sure we use `then`, without ruining our lovely new hash syntax!

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #58 / 230
Number of attempts: 6

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #238 / 512
Number of attempts: 3

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #108 / 338
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 709 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #71 / 249
Number of attempts: 6

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #172 / 558
Number of attempts: 5

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1363 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #104 / 383
Number of attempts: 5

Simple text editing with Vim - 12286 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #495 / 3581
Number of attempts: 3

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