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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33965 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: 32
Position: #5894 / 7501
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #916 / 1290
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1796 / 3898
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4853 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1292 / 1909
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #38 / 3091
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #499 / 710
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #586 / 1662
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2619 / 4240
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #359 / 594
Number of attempts: 1

Learn some german verbs - 547 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: #70 / 135
Number of attempts: 5

Stairstep digits - 412 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #105 / 151
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 20
Position: #823 / 1277
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 136 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #49 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 884 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: #221 / 296
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap text in quotes - 374 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #97 / 123
Number of attempts: 1

Fun With The Diagonal - 110 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #53 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph breaks - 533 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #146 / 169
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #369 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 829 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #144 / 186
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 13
Position: #217 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 603 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #92 / 160
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1687 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #271 / 452
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 228 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 30
Position: #76 / 84
Number of attempts: 6

Happy TvvO - 436 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #127 / 208
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #735 / 4216
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #864 / 1143
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1030 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #343 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #234 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

Don't know what this is - 2040 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: 15
Position: #417 / 590
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 896 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #391 / 444
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1257 / 3711
Number of attempts: 5

Coordinates placeholder - 78 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #17 / 41
Number of attempts: 2

NATO phonetic alphabet - 539 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #166 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Simple Maths 2 - 48 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #9 / 17
Number of attempts: 4

The name of the game - 679 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #228 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1145 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #310 / 454
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #309 / 774
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 864 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #103 / 232
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2195 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #431 / 678
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 671 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 10
Position: #252 / 266
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 580 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #276 / 365
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #413 / 656
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1362 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: 22
Position: #183 / 339
Number of attempts: 2

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 411 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 32
Position: #120 / 167
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 883 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #79 / 206
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #420 / 658
Number of attempts: 3

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1287 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #178 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2090 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: 15
Position: #289 / 529
Number of attempts: 3

A Simple One - 1076 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #467 / 676
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #335 / 463
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #347 / 414
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 557 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 27
Position: #74 / 167
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #242 / 539
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 596 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 9
Position: #210 / 252
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1080 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #245 / 352
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 819 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 13
Position: #80 / 276
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 809 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #87 / 234
Number of attempts: 5

Change the content of a string - 1764 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #415 / 647
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1568 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #207 / 607
Number of attempts: 5