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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: 31
Position: #5643 / 7517
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #1181 / 1294
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 40
Position: #3830 / 3904
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1728 / 1915
Number of attempts: 3

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: 18
Position: #675 / 867
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2584 / 3098
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 33
Position: #818 / 910
Number of attempts: 2

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: 41
Position: #371 / 388
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 21
Position: #644 / 712
Number of attempts: 1

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: 26
Position: #579 / 647
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1263 / 1675
Number of attempts: 2

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: 12
Position: #169 / 173
Number of attempts: 2

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: 27
Position: #328 / 332
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 144 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #79 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 11
Position: #3994 / 4258
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 62
Position: #264 / 276
Number of attempts: 1

Un"finnish"ed Work - 131 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #53 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #942 / 1281
Number of attempts: 1

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: 15
Position: #173 / 181
Number of attempts: 3

Fun With The Diagonal - 116 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #58 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Free hyphen! - 199 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #19 / 97
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #228 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 21
Position: #420 / 433
Number of attempts: 1

convert yml into java pojo field - 879 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: 41
Position: #222 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 845 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 14
Position: #253 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1077 / 1200
Number of attempts: 4

VimGolfNight - 604 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 27
Position: #350 / 357
Number of attempts: 2

Not enough Ps - 76 entries

Different type of code

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #39 / 40
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 23
Position: #3930 / 4225
Number of attempts: 1

learn vim in short time - 248 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #105 / 168
Number of attempts: 2

vim1001 - 331 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

Best score: 17
Best player score: 32
Position: #103 / 113
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #857 / 1147
Number of attempts: 1

Change name of a variable - 197 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #107 / 148
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #396 / 451
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #2853 / 3717
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1688 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 17
Position: #485 / 526
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #925 / 1094
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 309 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #170 / 231
Number of attempts: 1

lamb had a little Mary - 659 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 42
Position: #149 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1642 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 14
Position: #383 / 457
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #567 / 778
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #671 / 789
Number of attempts: 2

Append semicolon after expressions - 1087 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 24
Position: #423 / 426
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse and double space - 511 entries

Reverse the order of the given lines and double space everything

Best score: 14
Best player score: 35
Position: #198 / 202
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 686 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 10
Position: #257 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #280 / 368
Number of attempts: 1

Replacing some words - 445 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 40
Position: #139 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #545 / 658
Number of attempts: 2

The holy-grail may help - 405 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #193 / 221
Number of attempts: 3

Shebangs for all - 2103 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: 26
Position: #507 / 533
Number of attempts: 2

A Simple One - 1093 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: #477 / 681
Number of attempts: 1

82 bottles of beer on the wall - 329 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

Best score: 106
Best player score: 174
Position: #134 / 149
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 874 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #445 / 466
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 709 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #355 / 417
Number of attempts: 2

Indentation - 575 entries

Indent each line according to the right number of spaces it needs.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 42
Position: #162 / 183
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 607 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: #215 / 256
Number of attempts: 1

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: 29
Position: #3537 / 3907
Number of attempts: 1

Brent Woo
Twitter: @BrentPWoo

Linguistics PhD student at UW: idioms, coordination, experimental syntax, Slavic. he/him