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Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #1702 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #261 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #496 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #27 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 13
  • Position: #124 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #149 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #249 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 8
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #25 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 5
Triangular Numbers - 120 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #4 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 881 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #11 / 237
  • Number of attempts: 8
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 773 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #13 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 4
Convert Application Output to CSV - 226 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #7 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #224 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 6
Kolakoski sequence -- level 1 - 95 entries

Generate the Kolakoski sequence as described by its first 75 terms.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #19 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1208 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 3
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #216 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #163 / 1280
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #445 / 2157
  • 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: #67 / 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: 14
  • Position: #24 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 3
Build a six - 315 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #27 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #13 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 8
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: #106 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 23
  • Position: #26 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 10
move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #52 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 3
Array transposition - 2481 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #11 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: 29
  • Position: #61 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 4
Kolakoski sequence -- level 2 - 29 entries

This time, the line above describes the line below. Level 1 at: http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/5c880211ab65cb00065c74eb

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #9 / 10
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #413 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #840 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1369 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #977 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
Pascal's Triangle - 42 entries

Generate the first 17 left-justified rows of Pascal's triangle.

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #17 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #569 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 2
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