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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: 26
Position: #3661 / 7517
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #947 / 1294
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #3037 / 3904
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #461 / 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: 9
Position: #1732 / 1915
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #370 / 867
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #142 / 1185
Number of attempts: 6

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: #564 / 910
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #833 / 1901
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: 28
Position: #335 / 388
Number of attempts: 1

From argument to object - 1566 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: 22
Position: #406 / 471
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #511 / 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: 17
Position: #289 / 647
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #223 / 773
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #562 / 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: 44
Position: #125 / 135
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2649 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #484 / 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: 12
Position: #274 / 332
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 144 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #14 / 81
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3619 / 4258
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #559 / 596
Number of attempts: 1

Learn some german verbs - 553 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: 21
Position: #40 / 137
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #160 / 1281
Number of attempts: 10

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: 22
Position: #201 / 281
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 32
Position: #250 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1383 / 2158
Number of attempts: 1

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: #66 / 688
Number of attempts: 3

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: 21
Position: #199 / 214
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #203 / 260
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: 5
Position: #96 / 418
Number of attempts: 2

move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #87 / 149
Number of attempts: 4

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: 35
Position: #189 / 233
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3354 / 4225
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1027 / 1147
Number of attempts: 1

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: 14
Position: #378 / 596
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2386 / 3717
Number of attempts: 2

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: #935 / 1094
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2484 / 3991
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: 23
Position: #493 / 789
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #1545 / 1764
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: 14
Position: #1785 / 3907
Number of attempts: 1