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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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 / 7384
Number of attempts: 5

Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #754 / 1259
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1249 / 3852
Number of attempts: 8

Swap values inside brackets - 2477 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #244 / 573
Number of attempts: 4

V to the i - 4771 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1367 / 1887
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #371 / 843
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3556 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #604 / 1151
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3711 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #239 / 839
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7849 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #844 / 1870
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 747 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #99 / 177
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2902 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #38 / 702
Number of attempts: 8

Extract argument from function - 2337 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #372 / 750
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4851 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #578 / 1604
Number of attempts: 4

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 539 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: #52 / 128
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2572 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #259 / 698
Number of attempts: 7

comment and uncomment code inline - 1074 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: #198 / 316
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2827 / 4174
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1812 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #226 / 585
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5605 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #308 / 1260
Number of attempts: 8

Adam's challenge - 958 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 / 267
Number of attempts: 5

42-header - 39 entries

Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #7 / 15
Number of attempts: 8

ninja substitution - 1399 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #96 / 265
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 7865 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #462 / 2114
Number of attempts: 4

Lower cased and dashed strings - 48 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: #11 / 19
Number of attempts: 1

One to Ten - 2174 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: #465 / 664
Number of attempts: 6

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 648 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: #102 / 205
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 995 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #70 / 245
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 795 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 / 387
Number of attempts: 2

Separating firstname & lastname - 121 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #10 / 56
Number of attempts: 6

move titles next to url, in quotes - 510 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #18 / 137
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1845 / 4166
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2377 / 3677
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3128 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 / 1073
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12868 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1720 / 3950
Number of attempts: 2

Resort and deup a CSV list - 146 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: #21 / 41
Number of attempts: 9

switch variable - 5045 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #549 / 1742
Number of attempts: 2

Sort and add attributes - 1369 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #217 / 542
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12491 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1736 / 3626
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6749 entries

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

Best score: 31
Best player score: 35
Position: #384 / 1652
Number of attempts: 5