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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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 / 7474
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #626 / 1282
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1848 / 3889
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #474 / 587
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4830 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1357 / 1903
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #529 / 863
Number of attempts: 9

Swap the operands under comparison - 313 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 35
Position: #95 / 105
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #230 / 636
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #536 / 1177
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3941 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 24
Position: #706 / 892
Number of attempts: 6

Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #1531 / 1891
Number of attempts: 2

Cool or not? - 842 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #83 / 233
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #506 / 707
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #465 / 642
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #1038 / 1637
Number of attempts: 3

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 549 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: #94 / 132
Number of attempts: 2

Number Sort - 319 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 / 170
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #192 / 704
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2759 / 4230
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #197 / 592
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1067 / 1273
Number of attempts: 5

Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1368 / 2146
Number of attempts: 4

Order and join - 992 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #58 / 261
Number of attempts: 9

comments galore - 1073 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #369 / 429
Number of attempts: 2

Align commas - 1097 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: #141 / 247
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2241 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 / 682
Number of attempts: 6

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 672 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: #88 / 210
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1043 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #125 / 255
Number of attempts: 2

simple format (3) - 86 entries

reverse two column values!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 57
Position: #19 / 24
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 855 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #285 / 411
Number of attempts: 3

Put the months in order - 979 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: #115 / 165
Number of attempts: 7

move titles next to url, in quotes - 551 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #72 / 146
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2436 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #313 / 452
Number of attempts: 3

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #34 / 70
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #738 / 1194
Number of attempts: 6

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #334 / 446
Number of attempts: 4

Remove hard line breaks - 74 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: #28 / 34
Number of attempts: 4

Simple Maths - 57 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 34
Position: #15 / 27
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1808 / 4202
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #690 / 1140
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor static member invocation - 199 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: #43 / 64
Number of attempts: 11

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1164 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #150 / 301
Number of attempts: 7

Don't know what this is - 2025 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: #529 / 587
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2361 / 3700
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #651 / 1086
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2467 / 3977
Number of attempts: 4

Saving the hashes(#) - 2067 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: #265 / 480
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #407 / 780
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1227 / 1754
Number of attempts: 7

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3852 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #337 / 829
Number of attempts: 7

Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1735 / 3810
Number of attempts: 8