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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: #1754 / 7513
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #766 / 1293
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1260 / 3904
Number of attempts: 8

Swap values inside brackets - 2551 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #253 / 594
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4883 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1380 / 1914
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #383 / 867
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #616 / 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: #254 / 910
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #856 / 1901
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 773 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #101 / 182
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #38 / 712
Number of attempts: 8

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: 14
Position: #383 / 772
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #578 / 1674
Number of attempts: 4

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 584 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: 33
Position: #55 / 135
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #262 / 711
Number of attempts: 7

comment and uncomment code inline - 1182 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: #208 / 332
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2842 / 4255
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #226 / 596
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #319 / 1280
Number of attempts: 8

Adam's challenge - 1042 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: 18
Position: #79 / 281
Number of attempts: 5

42-header - 56 entries

Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #8 / 19
Number of attempts: 8

ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #97 / 271
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #462 / 2157
Number of attempts: 4

Lower cased and dashed strings - 54 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 59
Best player score: 74
Position: #12 / 23
Number of attempts: 1

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: 14
Position: #480 / 688
Number of attempts: 6

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: 15
Position: #106 / 214
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 1067 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #72 / 260
Number of attempts: 3

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: #126 / 418
Number of attempts: 2

Separating firstname & lastname - 182 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #14 / 62
Number of attempts: 6

move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #19 / 149
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1868 / 4224
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2397 / 3716
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: 14
Position: #313 / 1093
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1742 / 3991
Number of attempts: 2

Resort and deup a CSV list - 187 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: 48
Position: #23 / 47
Number of attempts: 9

switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #549 / 1764
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1591 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #217 / 615
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #1800 / 3902
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 35
Position: #415 / 1889
Number of attempts: 5