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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 26
Position: #3622 / 7364
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #1135 / 1257
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #3016 / 3842
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 31
Position: #537 / 569
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 890 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #197 / 224
Number of attempts: 1

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1708 / 1879
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2845 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #574 / 840
Number of attempts: 4

Swap the operands under comparison - 270 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 29
Position: #85 / 98
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2350 / 3044
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #630 / 1144
Number of attempts: 7

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 61
Position: #169 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Array propagate - 319 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #92 / 115
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2314 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #369 / 744
Number of attempts: 4

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 538 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: 49
Position: #122 / 127
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1069 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: 26
Position: #306 / 314
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 1039 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 54
Position: #243 / 271
Number of attempts: 1

Todo list specification - 385 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 41
Position: #165 / 176
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 856 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #191 / 209
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 19
Position: #764 / 1258
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 957 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: 23
Position: #220 / 266
Number of attempts: 6

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 840 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #217 / 287
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7803 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #1808 / 2100
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 688 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 55
Position: #103 / 161
Number of attempts: 4

Alsa configuration - 491 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 34
Position: #102 / 125
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1049 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: 24
Position: #228 / 241
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2165 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: 15
Position: #517 / 662
Number of attempts: 1

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 639 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: 26
Position: #202 / 203
Number of attempts: 1

Delete to the end of the current line - 784 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 8
Position: #365 / 384
Number of attempts: 1

Reorder the groups - 1137 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 30
Position: #239 / 259
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #857 / 1186
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #189 / 274
Number of attempts: 2

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #256 / 440
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #3503 / 4161
Number of attempts: 1

Don't know what this is - 1978 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: 16
Position: #529 / 578
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #3167 / 3666
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 42
Position: #633 / 692
Number of attempts: 3

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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: 17
Position: #925 / 1072
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12854 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #2710 / 3945
Number of attempts: 2

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1581 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 15
Position: #406 / 439
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 1992 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 31
Position: #405 / 473
Number of attempts: 2

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 165 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 38
Position: #43 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2437 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #652 / 736
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 2946 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 37
Position: #744 / 767
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2078 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #503 / 651
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #406 / 640
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1912 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 22
Position: #432 / 500
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1475 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #464 / 557
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12281 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #2819 / 3580
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 56
Position: #1450 / 1614
Number of attempts: 1