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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: 32
Position: #5880 / 7474
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #912 / 1282
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1791 / 3889
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4830 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1289 / 1903
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #38 / 3085
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #496 / 707
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #586 / 1637
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2615 / 4230
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #357 / 592
Number of attempts: 1

Learn some german verbs - 541 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: #69 / 134
Number of attempts: 5

Stairstep digits - 407 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #104 / 149
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 20
Position: #820 / 1273
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 130 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #49 / 78
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #219 / 294
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #96 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #53 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph breaks - 527 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #145 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1073 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #367 / 429
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 814 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #143 / 185
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 13
Position: #216 / 269
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #91 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #268 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 223 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 / 83
Number of attempts: 6

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #127 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #735 / 4202
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #862 / 1140
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #341 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 749 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #233 / 272
Number of attempts: 3

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: 15
Position: #415 / 587
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #390 / 438
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1257 / 3700
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 - 538 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #166 / 197
Number of attempts: 1

Simple Maths 2 - 44 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #8 / 16
Number of attempts: 4

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #228 / 363
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #310 / 450
Number of attempts: 2

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: #306 / 767
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #102 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2182 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #429 / 674
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 663 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 10
Position: #251 / 264
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #276 / 364
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: 16
Position: #409 / 652
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1360 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 / 337
Number of attempts: 2

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 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 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #79 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1940 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #418 / 656
Number of attempts: 3

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1272 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: #177 / 412
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 2049 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: #286 / 523
Number of attempts: 3

A Simple One - 1067 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 / 671
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.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #346 / 413
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 27
Position: #73 / 165
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1386 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #242 / 537
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 592 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: #209 / 250
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1075 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #244 / 349
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 789 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: #76 / 269
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 782 entries

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

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #86 / 227
Number of attempts: 5

Change the content of a string - 1707 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #407 / 628
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1539 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #207 / 594
Number of attempts: 5