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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: 22
Position: #1556 / 7517
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #631 / 1294
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1855 / 3904
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #479 / 594
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: 8
Position: #1361 / 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: 15
Position: #533 / 867
Number of attempts: 9

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: 35
Position: #97 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #231 / 639
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #539 / 1185
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: 24
Position: #719 / 910
Number of attempts: 6

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #1540 / 1901
Number of attempts: 2

Cool or not? - 881 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #84 / 237
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #510 / 712
Number of attempts: 4

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: 21
Position: #469 / 647
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1057 / 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: 38
Position: #97 / 135
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: 9
Position: #81 / 173
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #192 / 712
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2765 / 4258
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #197 / 596
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1075 / 1281
Number of attempts: 5

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1374 / 2158
Number of attempts: 4

Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #58 / 265
Number of attempts: 9

comments galore - 1101 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #372 / 433
Number of attempts: 2

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: #144 / 250
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: #6 / 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: #90 / 214
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #128 / 260
Number of attempts: 2

simple format (3) - 104 entries

reverse two column values!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 57
Position: #22 / 27
Number of attempts: 3

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: 6
Position: #290 / 418
Number of attempts: 3

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: 48
Position: #117 / 168
Number of attempts: 7

move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #74 / 149
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #317 / 461
Number of attempts: 3

Simple format (2) - 365 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #36 / 73
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #743 / 1200
Number of attempts: 6

Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #342 / 458
Number of attempts: 4

Remove hard line breaks - 89 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 21
Position: #31 / 38
Number of attempts: 4

Simple Maths - 89 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 34
Position: #19 / 32
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1821 / 4225
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #694 / 1147
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor static member invocation - 235 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 37
Position: #47 / 68
Number of attempts: 11

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #151 / 310
Number of attempts: 7

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: #537 / 596
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2369 / 3717
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: 16
Position: #655 / 1094
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2475 / 3991
Number of attempts: 4

Saving the hashes(#) - 2116 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: 27
Position: #270 / 488
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #413 / 789
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1234 / 1764
Number of attempts: 7

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4054 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #355 / 866
Number of attempts: 7

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: #1761 / 3907
Number of attempts: 8