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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33552 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: #5285 / 7401
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4606 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #772 / 1265
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #2759 / 3855
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 194 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #36 / 101
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4796 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1415 / 1891
Number of attempts: 2

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2859 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #422 / 845
Number of attempts: 3

Add string initializers to an enum - 872 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #180 / 258
Number of attempts: 5

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1213 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: #231 / 248
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10841 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2118 / 3058
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2028 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #387 / 522
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #495 / 634
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 18
Position: #1115 / 1157
Number of attempts: 2

Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #486 / 855
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7897 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #697 / 1872
Number of attempts: 4

multiple cursor alternative - 1519 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: #235 / 380
Number of attempts: 2

From argument to object - 1503 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: #255 / 455
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #124 / 178
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #407 / 703
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4956 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #621 / 1616
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #540 / 701
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11418 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1309 / 4182
Number of attempts: 7

Team names - 1834 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #245 / 587
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5644 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1069 / 1262
Number of attempts: 6

Vice versa - 7891 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #962 / 2121
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2209 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 / 669
Number of attempts: 5

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 661 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 / 207
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2028 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #319 / 499
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #172 / 248
Number of attempts: 2

Delete to the end of the current line - 810 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 / 389
Number of attempts: 2

Song Transcription Oops - 243 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 / 78
Number of attempts: 4

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #63 / 161
Number of attempts: 2

move titles next to url, in quotes - 529 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #90 / 139
Number of attempts: 4

convert yml into java pojo field - 856 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: #144 / 226
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 - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #866 / 1190
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 - 15956 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1896 / 4171
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #720 / 1137
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #209 / 437
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1447 / 3678
Number of attempts: 5

quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: #494 / 1075
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2491 / 3957
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 - 312 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 64
Position: #60 / 68
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #581 / 1743
Number of attempts: 2

remove dupes from array - 1347 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: #121 / 334
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #349 / 457
Number of attempts: 1