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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: #1499 / 7519
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #1093 / 1294
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18911 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #2743 / 3907
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #433 / 594
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4887 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #597 / 1916
Number of attempts: 5

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2937 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #311 / 868
Number of attempts: 7

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: 29
Position: #93 / 108
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: 17
Position: #554 / 910
Number of attempts: 1

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: 23
Position: #281 / 388
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 22
Position: #655 / 712
Number of attempts: 2

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: 19
Position: #383 / 647
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: 10
Position: #156 / 173
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #620 / 712
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: 9
Position: #105 / 332
Number of attempts: 7

Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2748 / 4261
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #496 / 596
Number of attempts: 1

For all cases. - 180 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #60 / 111
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1074 / 1281
Number of attempts: 1

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 201 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 28
Position: #83 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

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: 18
Position: #71 / 281
Number of attempts: 8

replace 2nd column blanks with values in same column if blank - 258 entries

Where ,SOMELOGB and ,SOMELOGC replaces each /r carriage return if 2nd column is blank. The replace only happens if 2nd column is blank though and should replace up to the non blank row.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #72 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Fun With The Diagonal - 116 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #59 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #409 / 2158
Number of attempts: 5

Convert pasted text into Markdown - 38 entries

I often need to copy/paste text into Markdown files. The challenge here is to wrap the lines in a way that prefers breaks after periods, commas, or other logical demarcations. There should be no spaces at the beginning of a line.

Best score: 46
Best player score: 90
Position: #12 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

Sort files from hosts - 210 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #70 / 80
Number of attempts: 2

Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #221 / 265
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #263 / 433
Number of attempts: 2

Angular naming conventions - 359 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: 21
Position: #82 / 124
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 471 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 37
Position: #110 / 123
Number of attempts: 1

Scrambled numbers - 830 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 35
Position: #168 / 187
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #177 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

A grid of punctuation - 156 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #55 / 65
Number of attempts: 1

Generate a list of numbers - 312 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #126 / 144
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2260 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: 14
Position: #431 / 689
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 33
Position: #396 / 461
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #996 / 1200
Number of attempts: 2

Fix the XML - 1052 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #202 / 292
Number of attempts: 2

Conway sequence - 30 entries

Generate the the first fifteen numbers. See here for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-and-say_sequence

Best score: 43
Best player score: 43
Position: #14 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2287 / 4226
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #858 / 1147
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1316 / 3717
Number of attempts: 2

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: 9
Position: #23 / 526
Number of attempts: 6

Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2997 / 3993
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2237 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #157 / 687
Number of attempts: 6

switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 17
Position: #1640 / 1766
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13667 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1755 / 3914
Number of attempts: 2