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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: #5827 / 7384
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #902 / 1259
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1782 / 3852
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1280 / 1887
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #38 / 3055
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #494 / 702
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #586 / 1604
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2606 / 4174
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1812 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #353 / 585
Number of attempts: 1

Learn some german verbs - 532 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: #68 / 132
Number of attempts: 5

Stairstep digits - 383 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #103 / 143
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 20
Position: #809 / 1260
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 106 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #49 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 841 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: #216 / 288
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap text in quotes - 351 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #95 / 121
Number of attempts: 1

Fun With The Diagonal - 104 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #53 / 80
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph breaks - 509 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #143 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1017 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #361 / 421
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 780 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #142 / 183
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 812 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 13
Position: #215 / 268
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 575 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #90 / 157
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1630 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #267 / 442
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 220 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: #75 / 82
Number of attempts: 6

Happy TvvO - 417 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #127 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #735 / 4166
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3183 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #857 / 1132
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1006 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #339 / 352
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 745 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #233 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

Don't know what this is - 1996 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: #412 / 581
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 874 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #388 / 436
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1257 / 3677
Number of attempts: 5

Coordinates placeholder - 64 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #16 / 37
Number of attempts: 2

NATO phonetic alphabet - 506 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #163 / 194
Number of attempts: 1

Simple Maths 2 - 35 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #7 / 15
Number of attempts: 4

The name of the game - 654 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #228 / 359
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1096 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #305 / 442
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2487 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #296 / 748
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 824 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #101 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2085 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #414 / 653
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 639 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 10
Position: #248 / 261
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 566 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #276 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 1955 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #403 / 643
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1345 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: #181 / 333
Number of attempts: 2

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 392 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: #119 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 843 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #78 / 203
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1869 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #410 / 646
Number of attempts: 3

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1225 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: #171 / 402
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1917 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: #276 / 502
Number of attempts: 3

A Simple One - 1009 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 / 648
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 834 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #332 / 455
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 668 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #339 / 404
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 510 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 27
Position: #69 / 159
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1301 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #242 / 517
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 545 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: #199 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1024 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #239 / 340
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 732 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: #74 / 257
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 671 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #77 / 202
Number of attempts: 5

Change the content of a string - 1502 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #359 / 567
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #207 / 542
Number of attempts: 5