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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: 32
Position: #5954 / 7508
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #262 / 1291
Number of attempts: 11

Swap values inside brackets - 2549 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 24
Position: #506 / 593
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #1094 / 1183
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 48
Position: #871 / 909
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #467 / 1899
Number of attempts: 7

Cool or not? - 857 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #90 / 236
Number of attempts: 6

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: 21
Position: #727 / 768
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #564 / 1670
Number of attempts: 5

Number Sort - 322 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 / 172
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 - 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: 10
Position: #206 / 330
Number of attempts: 7

Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2823 / 4252
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 - 409 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: #177 / 185
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 - 341 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: #118 / 126
Number of attempts: 1

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: 19
Position: #124 / 279
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 - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #449 / 2153
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 - 345 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: #118 / 122
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 - 1001 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: #145 / 168
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #608 / 1197
Number of attempts: 7

Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #372 / 455
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 821 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 / 252
Number of attempts: 11

I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #3547 / 4221
Number of attempts: 2

120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #53 / 147
Number of attempts: 12

Gray area - 757 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #114 / 274
Number of attempts: 6

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: 12
Position: #227 / 592
Number of attempts: 10

Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #198 / 256
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2389 / 3712
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1664 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: #489 / 523
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1731 / 3987
Number of attempts: 7

Minimalist Limerick - 532 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #31 / 176
Number of attempts: 10

Resort and deup a CSV list - 185 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: #40 / 46
Number of attempts: 4

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1153 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #120 / 457
Number of attempts: 9

replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #110 / 787
Number of attempts: 10

Switch function arguments - 2204 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #163 / 681
Number of attempts: 7

Append semicolon after expressions - 1071 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #248 / 425
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 2036 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #190 / 657
Number of attempts: 5

remove dupes from array - 1375 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: #122 / 340
Number of attempts: 5

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1293 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 / 417
Number of attempts: 5

A Simple One - 1079 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 / 677
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1399 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #249 / 541
Number of attempts: 4

Make Fancy Header - 1089 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 27
Position: #328 / 354
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1779 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #332 / 651
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1576 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #218 / 611
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1733 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: #427 / 455
Number of attempts: 3