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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: 32
Position: #5950 / 7498
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4693 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #262 / 1289
Number of attempts: 11

Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #504 / 591
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #1092 / 1181
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3987 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 48
Position: #869 / 907
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #467 / 1897
Number of attempts: 7

Cool or not? - 852 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #90 / 234
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2392 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #724 / 765
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5089 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #564 / 1658
Number of attempts: 5

Number Sort - 321 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: #103 / 171
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 20
Position: #686 / 708
Number of attempts: 1

comment and uncomment code inline - 1158 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: 10
Position: #206 / 329
Number of attempts: 7

Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2821 / 4240
Number of attempts: 4

Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 46
Position: #142 / 275
Number of attempts: 6

Todo list specification - 408 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 42
Position: #176 / 184
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #500 / 1277
Number of attempts: 8

Simple addition - 337 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #117 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 1018 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: 19
Position: #124 / 278
Number of attempts: 10

Create a table - 342 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 42
Position: #106 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7995 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #449 / 2151
Number of attempts: 11

Paragraph sort - 456 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #71 / 126
Number of attempts: 7

Angular naming conventions - 341 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 32
Position: #116 / 120
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1105 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: 11
Position: #79 / 248
Number of attempts: 13

Hello ${world} - 344 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #72 / 102
Number of attempts: 6

Put the months in order - 998 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 55
Position: #144 / 166
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #607 / 1196
Number of attempts: 7

Space out the alphabet - 1686 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #370 / 451
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 820 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #56 / 251
Number of attempts: 11

I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #3544 / 4216
Number of attempts: 2

120 Degrees - 505 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #52 / 146
Number of attempts: 12

Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #114 / 273
Number of attempts: 6

Don't know what this is - 2036 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: 12
Position: #226 / 589
Number of attempts: 10

Mess in revision history - 1212 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #197 / 255
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2388 / 3710
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1650 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 18
Position: #487 / 521
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1729 / 3983
Number of attempts: 7

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #30 / 174
Number of attempts: 10

Resort and deup a CSV list - 184 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 70
Position: #39 / 45
Number of attempts: 4

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1141 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #120 / 453
Number of attempts: 9

replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #110 / 785
Number of attempts: 10

Switch function arguments - 2195 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #163 / 678
Number of attempts: 7

Append semicolon after expressions - 1067 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #247 / 423
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2028 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #189 / 656
Number of attempts: 5

remove dupes from array - 1362 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #121 / 339
Number of attempts: 5

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1287 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #92 / 415
Number of attempts: 5

A Simple One - 1071 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #502 / 674
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #248 / 539
Number of attempts: 4

Make Fancy Header - 1080 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #326 / 352
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1761 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #329 / 645
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1561 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #218 / 604
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1704 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 39
Position: #421 / 448
Number of attempts: 3