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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #5320 / 7474
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #777 / 1282
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #2775 / 3889
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 202 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #36 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4830 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1422 / 1903
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #430 / 863
Number of attempts: 3

Add string initializers to an enum - 892 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #184 / 263
Number of attempts: 5

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1253 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: #241 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2138 / 3085
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #395 / 536
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #496 / 636
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 18
Position: #1135 / 1177
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3941 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #503 / 892
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #700 / 1891
Number of attempts: 4

multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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: #238 / 385
Number of attempts: 2

From argument to object - 1536 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: #256 / 466
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 751 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #124 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #409 / 707
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #621 / 1637
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #540 / 704
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1309 / 4230
Number of attempts: 7

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #245 / 592
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1078 / 1273
Number of attempts: 6

Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #968 / 2146
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2241 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 / 682
Number of attempts: 5

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 672 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 / 210
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #324 / 510
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1043 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #174 / 255
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 855 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 / 411
Number of attempts: 2

Song Transcription Oops - 244 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 / 79
Number of attempts: 4

change parenthesis - 299 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #63 / 162
Number of attempts: 2

move titles next to url, in quotes - 551 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #91 / 146
Number of attempts: 4

convert yml into java pojo field - 867 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: #145 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #143 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #869 / 1194
Number of attempts: 3

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #194 / 281
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1907 / 4202
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #721 / 1140
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #209 / 438
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1447 / 3700
Number of attempts: 5

quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: #496 / 1086
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2504 / 3977
Number of attempts: 4

ASCII-art Histogram - 320 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: #46 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

calculations - 313 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 64
Position: #60 / 69
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #581 / 1754
Number of attempts: 2

remove dupes from array - 1360 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 / 337
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #352 / 463
Number of attempts: 1