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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: 30
Position: #5266 / 7364
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #768 / 1257
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #2749 / 3842
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 189 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #36 / 99
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1411 / 1879
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #420 / 840
Number of attempts: 3

Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #178 / 254
Number of attempts: 5

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1181 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 43
Position: #229 / 244
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10792 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2108 / 3044
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2001 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #383 / 516
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2125 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #494 / 630
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 18
Position: #1103 / 1144
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #470 / 827
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #696 / 1865
Number of attempts: 4

multiple cursor alternative - 1474 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #232 / 376
Number of attempts: 2

From argument to object - 1474 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #252 / 450
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 735 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #121 / 174
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #405 / 700
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #621 / 1585
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #536 / 695
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1309 / 4164
Number of attempts: 7

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #245 / 581
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1064 / 1258
Number of attempts: 6

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #957 / 2101
Number of attempts: 2

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: 12
Position: #210 / 662
Number of attempts: 5

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: 14
Position: #49 / 203
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2004 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #317 / 496
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 977 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #169 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 791 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #187 / 385
Number of attempts: 2

Song Transcription Oops - 234 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #41 / 75
Number of attempts: 4

change parenthesis - 278 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #63 / 156
Number of attempts: 2

move titles next to url, in quotes - 504 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #88 / 135
Number of attempts: 4

convert yml into java pojo field - 829 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

Best score: 29
Best player score: 31
Position: #141 / 223
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 564 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #140 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #863 / 1186
Number of attempts: 3

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #191 / 274
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1894 / 4161
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #716 / 1129
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #209 / 431
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10628 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1447 / 3667
Number of attempts: 5

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: 15
Position: #492 / 1072
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2484 / 3946
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII-art Histogram - 310 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 76
Position: #44 / 55
Number of attempts: 3

calculations - 262 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 64
Position: #56 / 64
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #581 / 1736
Number of attempts: 2

remove dupes from array - 1336 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: #119 / 331
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #348 / 454
Number of attempts: 1