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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33969 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: #1483 / 7502
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values - 4701 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #248 / 1290
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #913 / 3898
Number of attempts: 8

Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #154 / 591
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4860 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #596 / 1910
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #287 / 865
Number of attempts: 4

Swap the operands under comparison - 318 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #39 / 106
Number of attempts: 4

Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #230 / 638
Number of attempts: 6

Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #211 / 908
Number of attempts: 12

multiple cursor alternative - 1556 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: #158 / 386
Number of attempts: 5

From argument to object - 1552 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: #102 / 469
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #22 / 710
Number of attempts: 8

Copy three lines - 2909 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #104 / 644
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2397 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #713 / 766
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5107 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #538 / 1665
Number of attempts: 4

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 557 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #44 / 133
Number of attempts: 6

Number Sort - 321 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #76 / 171
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #188 / 708
Number of attempts: 4

comment and uncomment code inline - 1158 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: #104 / 329
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11582 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1156 / 4243
Number of attempts: 7

Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #183 / 594
Number of attempts: 6

Missing Library and a Typo - 952 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: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #81 / 222
Number of attempts: 5

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #137 / 1277
Number of attempts: 16

Adam's challenge - 1018 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #70 / 278
Number of attempts: 6

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: 13
Position: #119 / 296
Number of attempts: 4

Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #403 / 2153
Number of attempts: 7

Array transposition - 2472 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #129 / 458
Number of attempts: 11

convert yml into java pojo field - 873 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #36 / 231
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #388 / 1196
Number of attempts: 6

I forgot quotes - 16178 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #788 / 4217
Number of attempts: 12

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #690 / 1143
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1311 / 3711
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #447 / 709
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3198 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: 14
Position: #300 / 1090
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13029 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #937 / 3985
Number of attempts: 5

Array Transposition - 215 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 30
Position: #28 / 58
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #521 / 1758
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 13521 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #550 / 3877
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7584 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 35
Position: #406 / 1872
Number of attempts: 5