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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: 26
Position: #3626 / 7517
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #762 / 1294
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1817 / 3904
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #176 / 594
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1362 / 1915
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #365 / 867
Number of attempts: 6

Swap the operands under comparison - 325 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #60 / 108
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #306 / 639
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #574 / 1185
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #489 / 910
Number of attempts: 3

multiple cursor alternative - 1592 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: 21
Position: #222 / 388
Number of attempts: 8

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #356 / 712
Number of attempts: 8

Copy three lines - 2924 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #338 / 647
Number of attempts: 9

Array propagate - 354 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #51 / 125
Number of attempts: 5

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #475 / 773
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #556 / 1675
Number of attempts: 3

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 584 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: 35
Position: #65 / 135
Number of attempts: 3

Number Sort - 328 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: #99 / 173
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #256 / 712
Number of attempts: 14

comment and uncomment code inline - 1182 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: 10
Position: #202 / 332
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2672 / 4258
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #392 / 596
Number of attempts: 3

Learn some german verbs - 553 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: 32
Position: #118 / 137
Number of attempts: 6

Missing Library and a Typo - 954 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: #87 / 223
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #154 / 1281
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 1043 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: 22
Position: #200 / 281
Number of attempts: 6

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 886 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: #125 / 297
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 351 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: 13
Position: #153 / 181
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1381 / 2158
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #176 / 265
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #272 / 433
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 830 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #103 / 187
Number of attempts: 8

Align commas - 1134 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: 16
Position: #145 / 250
Number of attempts: 6

Python challenge - 211 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 41
Position: #26 / 51
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2258 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #44 / 688
Number of attempts: 6

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #97 / 214
Number of attempts: 4

Build a six - 315 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #13 / 102
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #127 / 260
Number of attempts: 8

Delete to the end of the current line - 882 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #82 / 418
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 1001 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 36
Position: #70 / 168
Number of attempts: 10

move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #84 / 149
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #261 / 461
Number of attempts: 11

unknown command - 176 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #39 / 92
Number of attempts: 2

Simple format (2) - 365 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #38 / 73
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #604 / 1200
Number of attempts: 6

Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #276 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #3004 / 4225
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #703 / 1147
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2070 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: 16
Position: #542 / 596
Number of attempts: 4

attr_aligner - 3568 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #254 / 711
Number of attempts: 5

quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: #308 / 1094
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #3004 / 3991
Number of attempts: 5

Santa's naughty / nice list - 113 entries

Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 57
Position: #23 / 29
Number of attempts: 3

Array Transposition - 216 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 45
Position: #38 / 59
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #179 / 778
Number of attempts: 9

replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #290 / 789
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #318 / 684
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #540 / 1764
Number of attempts: 4

Getters & Setters: Java - 219 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Best score: 89
Best player score: 119
Position: #32 / 62
Number of attempts: 12

Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1779 / 3907
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 39
Position: #805 / 1893
Number of attempts: 3