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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: 26
Position: #3650 / 7474
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #941 / 1282
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #3027 / 3889
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #456 / 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: 9
Position: #1722 / 1903
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #367 / 863
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #142 / 1177
Number of attempts: 6

Com(m)a Trouble - 3941 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #554 / 892
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #828 / 1891
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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: #332 / 385
Number of attempts: 1

From argument to object - 1536 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: #403 / 466
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #507 / 707
Number of attempts: 1

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: 17
Position: #286 / 642
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2376 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #223 / 759
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #562 / 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: 44
Position: #122 / 132
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #479 / 704
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 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: #270 / 328
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 137 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #14 / 78
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3603 / 4230
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #555 / 592
Number of attempts: 1

Learn some german verbs - 541 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 / 134
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #160 / 1273
Number of attempts: 10

Adam's challenge - 1009 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: #197 / 276
Number of attempts: 4

ninja substitution - 1427 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 32
Position: #248 / 269
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1377 / 2146
Number of attempts: 1

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: #66 / 682
Number of attempts: 3

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: 21
Position: #195 / 210
Number of attempts: 1

Increment each number - 1043 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #200 / 255
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: 5
Position: #96 / 411
Number of attempts: 2

move titles next to url, in quotes - 551 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #85 / 146
Number of attempts: 4

convert yml into java pojo field - 867 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: #187 / 230
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3335 / 4202
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1020 / 1140
Number of attempts: 1

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: 14
Position: #371 / 587
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2378 / 3700
Number of attempts: 2

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: 17
Position: #930 / 1086
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2476 / 3977
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #486 / 780
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #1536 / 1754
Number of attempts: 1

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: #1759 / 3810
Number of attempts: 1