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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: #1343 / 7330
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #231 / 1250
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18559 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #420 / 3830
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4717 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #559 / 1874
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #138 / 625
Number of attempts: 5

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 652 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #236 / 376
Number of attempts: 1

multiple cursor alternative - 1460 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: 19
Position: #53 / 374
Number of attempts: 6

From argument to object - 1448 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: #91 / 443
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2869 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #13 / 695
Number of attempts: 6

Copy three lines - 2825 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #92 / 631
Number of attempts: 6

Array propagate - 318 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #12 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Extract argument from function - 2283 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #202 / 739
Number of attempts: 5

Start coding format - 140 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #34 / 67
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4766 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #516 / 1578
Number of attempts: 4

Number Sort - 300 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: #10 / 160
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2530 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #178 / 690
Number of attempts: 4

comment and uncomment code inline - 1039 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: #94 / 306
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1109 / 4152
Number of attempts: 6

Team names - 1795 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #147 / 578
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #7 / 265
Number of attempts: 5

Learn some german verbs - 529 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: 21
Position: #30 / 130
Number of attempts: 3

Un"finnish"ed Work - 105 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #18 / 55
Number of attempts: 3

Todo list specification - 375 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #63 / 171
Number of attempts: 2

Subnetting - 109 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #6 / 35
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 930 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 39
Position: #3 / 361
Number of attempts: 4

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 254 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #27 / 136
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 366 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #36 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 838 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: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #17 / 206
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5514 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #277 / 1249
Number of attempts: 10

Simple addition - 301 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #40 / 112
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 928 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: #64 / 261
Number of attempts: 3

Create a table - 318 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #30 / 102
Number of attempts: 3

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 832 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: #112 / 283
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 316 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #91 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7675 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #362 / 2078
Number of attempts: 5

7th Birthday - 185 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #18 / 72
Number of attempts: 4

C Reformatting - 688 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 30
Position: #15 / 161
Number of attempts: 6

Paragraph breaks - 497 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #34 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #247 / 414
Number of attempts: 1

Mirrored text - 163 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #26 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

Angular naming conventions - 287 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #40 / 112
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #35 / 181
Number of attempts: 4

Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #46 / 123
Number of attempts: 4

Align commas - 1049 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #70 / 241
Number of attempts: 5

Hello ${world} - 298 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #23 / 93
Number of attempts: 3

Generate a list of numbers - 282 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #49 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

Separating firstname & lastname - 117 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #5 / 54
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2345 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #113 / 439
Number of attempts: 7

Mirror Symmetry - 793 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #80 / 265
Number of attempts: 5

Swap assigned value - 593 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #91 / 242
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #46 / 154
Number of attempts: 4

Cartesian product - 218 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #5 / 92
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4228 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #368 / 1179
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 765 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #63 / 273
Number of attempts: 3

readability - 310 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #74 / 147
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1610 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #87 / 438
Number of attempts: 4

Fix the XML - 962 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #51 / 280
Number of attempts: 6

Line 'em up! - 387 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #33 / 108
Number of attempts: 5

Condensed Cases - 777 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #52 / 240
Number of attempts: 3

Simple Maths - 45 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 33
Position: #9 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

Happy TvvO - 396 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #132 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

range(10) digit rotation - 32 entries

This is a data generator challenge or some kind of gift..

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #12 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #750 / 4146
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #233 / 1124
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 987 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #47 / 348
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1108 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #66 / 293
Number of attempts: 11

Don't know what this is - 1961 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: 11
Position: #96 / 576
Number of attempts: 5

Where should I put the Newline? - 857 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #200 / 429
Number of attempts: 2

Piphilology - 131 entries

Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

Best score: 29
Best player score: 29
Position: #6 / 51
Number of attempts: 4

Mess in revision history - 1157 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #52 / 245
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1266 / 3653
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3408 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #144 / 689
Number of attempts: 10

quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: #291 / 1066
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #875 / 3938
Number of attempts: 4

Delete unwanted lines - 392 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #168 / 224
Number of attempts: 2

Fibonacci Triangles - 49 entries

Triangles

Best score: 40
Best player score: 42
Position: #7 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 514 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #27 / 170
Number of attempts: 3

REDRUM - 149 entries

If you remember "The Shinning", the first time you saw the bloody word REDRUM you probably thinked "What the Hell is that?" Well, then you know that you need a little help from a looking-glass to make sense of it. Now it's time to use vim like a mirror to reveal the message.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #18 / 61
Number of attempts: 2

199 Fibonacci Numbers - 39 entries

Generate 199 Fibonacci Numbers using, if you like, the function S(x,y), a vimscript to sum two big numbers in reverse order.

Best score: 51
Best player score: 74
Position: #15 / 17
Number of attempts: 1

Chinese Multiplication Table - 77 entries

Print a Chinese multiplication table in Vim. In China, every kid is asked to memorize this table. And thanks to the mono-syllabism of Chinese characters, it is not that hard. Printing the multiplication table is also a good exercise for programming beginners. For-loop, escaped characters, etc... There should be some special ways to print it in Vim.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 49
Position: #7 / 24
Number of attempts: 3

Circle in a square - 140 entries

Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #11 / 52
Number of attempts: 5

Groups magic - 146 entries

Regexp or macros for string converting: (a) -> ___ (abc) -> ____ (abcd) -> ______ All in the '(' replace to _ multiply by char count + ()

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #63 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 498 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #37 / 189
Number of attempts: 5

Create a pandoc compatible table - 177 entries

In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #9 / 51
Number of attempts: 4

A simple change - 434 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #116 / 187
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: The Quick Brown Fox - 168 entries

Someone has vandalized our text (again). Please fix to read: The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #14 / 100
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 643 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #236 / 353
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1550 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #96 / 435
Number of attempts: 3

Stairs Indenting - 442 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #51 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

Unwrap the text of an email message - 182 entries

Reverse of "Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters". gq and gw are great for wrapping paragraphs. But sometimes other programs choke on your wrapped lines. What's the best way to un-gq?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #27 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 1977 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #55 / 470
Number of attempts: 8

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 157 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 22
Position: #10 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1066 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #116 / 436
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2399 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #71 / 727
Number of attempts: 5

replacing each line of a block selection - 2901 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #104 / 759
Number of attempts: 4

Switch function arguments - 2019 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #152 / 637
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 5012 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #505 / 1728
Number of attempts: 2

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 953 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #7 / 184
Number of attempts: 6

Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #89 / 636
Number of attempts: 7

remove dupes from array - 1324 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: 17
Position: #74 / 328
Number of attempts: 7

Complete the hex array data (Part II) - 151 entries

Do not use external tools(e.g. tac, seq) [My interpretation of Rule #7]

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #4 / 67
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1849 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #31 / 636
Number of attempts: 1

Shebangs for all - 1846 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: 11
Position: #50 / 486
Number of attempts: 4

A Simple One - 978 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: #473 / 636
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3136 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #14 / 699
Number of attempts: 10

Simple text editing with Vim - 11962 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #529 / 3502
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6336 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 35
Position: #373 / 1561
Number of attempts: 7