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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33535 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: #1467 / 7397
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4606 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #459 / 1265
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #900 / 3855
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values inside brackets - 2480 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #143 / 575
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4796 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1315 / 1891
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2859 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #307 / 845
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #365 / 855
Number of attempts: 3

multiple cursor alternative - 1519 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: #155 / 380
Number of attempts: 5

From argument to object - 1503 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: 18
Position: #241 / 455
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #234 / 703
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2354 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #209 / 751
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #533 / 1615
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #248 / 701
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11417 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2720 / 4181
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1834 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #179 / 587
Number of attempts: 2

Learn some german verbs - 533 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: #114 / 133
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 989 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: 40
Position: #36 / 379
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5643 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #134 / 1261
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 978 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: 19
Position: #119 / 268
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7891 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #804 / 2121
Number of attempts: 5

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #122 / 259
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #384 / 1190
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 800 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: 14
Position: #144 / 245
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15954 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1786 / 4170
Number of attempts: 3

Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #57 / 62
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #374 / 1137
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1183 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #91 / 249
Number of attempts: 5

quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: #302 / 1075
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2448 / 3957
Number of attempts: 4

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #239 / 446
Number of attempts: 7

Saving the hashes(#) - 2048 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: 21
Position: #118 / 478
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2522 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #168 / 751
Number of attempts: 8

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #943 / 1743
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1347 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: 18
Position: #103 / 334
Number of attempts: 2

Compile C - 398 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #28 / 136
Number of attempts: 5

Make Fancy Header - 1045 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #199 / 342
Number of attempts: 1

Linear congruential generator - 137 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

Best score: 28
Best player score: 31
Position: #34 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1541 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #296 / 577
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #210 / 551
Number of attempts: 3

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1467 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #226 / 403
Number of attempts: 6

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3568 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #128 / 770
Number of attempts: 9

Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1680 / 3653
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6825 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 36
Position: #469 / 1673
Number of attempts: 1