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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: #3657 / 7508
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #945 / 1291
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #3035 / 3901
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2546 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #460 / 592
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4864 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1729 / 1912
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #370 / 866
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #142 / 1183
Number of attempts: 6

Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #563 / 909
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #833 / 1899
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1556 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: #333 / 386
Number of attempts: 1

From argument to object - 1552 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: #405 / 469
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #510 / 710
Number of attempts: 1

Copy three lines - 2911 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #288 / 645
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #223 / 768
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #562 / 1670
Number of attempts: 3

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 562 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: #124 / 134
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #481 / 708
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1161 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: #272 / 330
Number of attempts: 2

Flip the bit - 141 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #14 / 80
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #3617 / 4252
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1860 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #558 / 595
Number of attempts: 1

Learn some german verbs - 547 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 / 135
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #160 / 1277
Number of attempts: 10

Adam's challenge - 1020 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: #199 / 279
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 - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1381 / 2153
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2249 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 / 687
Number of attempts: 3

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 681 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: #198 / 213
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 - 867 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 / 417
Number of attempts: 2

move titles next to url, in quotes - 562 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #87 / 148
Number of attempts: 4

convert yml into java pojo field - 873 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: #188 / 231
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 18
Position: #3350 / 4221
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #1025 / 1145
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 2048 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: #375 / 592
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2384 / 3712
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3200 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: #932 / 1091
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2481 / 3987
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #491 / 787
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #1543 / 1761
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1781 / 3892
Number of attempts: 1