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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: 23
  • Position: #2628 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #450 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2165 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4887 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1287 / 1916
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #130 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1592 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: #136 / 388
  • Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1566 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: #230 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2924 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #229 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 5
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #364 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 5167 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #894 / 1677
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2591 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 279 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #72 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 886 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: #185 / 297
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1629 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paragraph breaks - 550 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #161 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #984 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2236 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2070 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: #217 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2281 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: 17
  • Position: #917 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #864 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #495 / 1766
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1686 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 3
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