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Paste a column after a column - 2578 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #153 / 560
Number of attempts: 12

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 647 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 46
Position: #83 / 154
Number of attempts: 3

delete swap - 1792 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #160 / 558
Number of attempts: 4

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 37
Position: #88 / 271
Number of attempts: 7

Visual block training - 1075 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #90 / 205
Number of attempts: 8

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1660 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #154 / 558
Number of attempts: 3

hello-world-vimgolf - 2503 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #168 / 710
Number of attempts: 3

Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #67 / 185
Number of attempts: 4

Plotting some variables in python - 1661 entries

4 sets of (x,y) variables to plot. Just increment the numbers! Well, let's change the colors of the lines as well. Oh and we meant to plot the absolute values of course.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #77 / 348
Number of attempts: 4

Lowercase first characters - 487 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 47
Position: #141 / 183
Number of attempts: 1

Migrated to Postgres! - 332 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

Best score: 26
Best player score: 29
Position: #60 / 132
Number of attempts: 3

simple replacements - 1802 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #204 / 390
Number of attempts: 5

Inverting Lines - 1912 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #258 / 513
Number of attempts: 5

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 330 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #25 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1402 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 52
Position: #241 / 324
Number of attempts: 3

Enumerate Bullets - 327 entries

We will need to refer to the bullet points in our document explicitly later, so we need to assign them some ID's!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 56
Position: #74 / 89
Number of attempts: 2

swap number pairs - 2115 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #174 / 384
Number of attempts: 7

HS Final exam vimgolf - 904 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #141 / 238
Number of attempts: 3

Rural Post - 4557 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #443 / 1111
Number of attempts: 6

Satisfy the go linter - 2440 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #298 / 482
Number of attempts: 4

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1007 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #178 / 316
Number of attempts: 6

Multiline to Single Line - 735 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #201 / 311
Number of attempts: 1

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1150 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #148 / 232
Number of attempts: 13

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 24
Position: #198 / 262
Number of attempts: 3

Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #150 / 204
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6353 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #740 / 1549
Number of attempts: 8

Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #197 / 283
Number of attempts: 2

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 195 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 7
Position: #92 / 102
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #99 / 259
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2875 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #296 / 641
Number of attempts: 5

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #280 / 701
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11496 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3178 / 4214
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 49
Position: #194 / 274
Number of attempts: 3

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 67 entries

I bumped into this in a dailywtf code: http://pastebin.com/QApa5ycS I didn't want to translate a string whenever I wanted to be [Ss][Aa][Rr][Cc][Aa][Ss][Tt][Ii][Cc] on slack, so I figured a script (python, sed, whatever) would be helpful. Well, or a few vim keystroke!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #29 / 39
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #258 / 1270
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 120 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #70 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #73 / 122
Number of attempts: 4

Sort files from hosts - 195 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #35 / 77
Number of attempts: 5

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #140 / 159
Number of attempts: 10

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #39 / 70
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #1011 / 1192
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #295 / 446
Number of attempts: 1

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #146 / 239
Number of attempts: 3

Condensed Cases - 804 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #174 / 247
Number of attempts: 7

Word frequency alignment - 291 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #108 / 161
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 479 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #165 / 199
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 2147 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #178 / 666
Number of attempts: 5

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #128 / 419
Number of attempts: 4

Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #199 / 275
Number of attempts: 8

Line Zipper - 477 entries

Zip/pair related lines.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #65 / 216
Number of attempts: 6

imports alignment (python) - 700 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #69 / 198
Number of attempts: 15

Generate English Alphabets - 495 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 42
Position: #185 / 207
Number of attempts: 2

Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #171 / 221
Number of attempts: 6

Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #362 / 461
Number of attempts: 1

Hatsuyume - 546 entries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsuyume

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #21 / 188
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #254 / 348
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse characters in a line - 778 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #161 / 268
Number of attempts: 5

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