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Poorly indented Python comments - 1190 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 33
Position: #114 / 205
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 1259 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #48 / 415
Number of attempts: 1

2 quick changes and a numbered list - 599 entries

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

Best score: 37
Best player score: 54
Position: #93 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1540 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #3 / 483
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2347 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 45
Position: #413 / 543
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1005 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #73 / 185
Number of attempts: 2

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1579 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #490 / 526
Number of attempts: 2

hello-world-vimgolf - 2366 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #372 / 669
Number of attempts: 4

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 842 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #136 / 258
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1837 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #286 / 498
Number of attempts: 4

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 306 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #89 / 195
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 203 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #54 / 84
Number of attempts: 5

HS Final exam vimgolf - 864 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #121 / 227
Number of attempts: 2

Turn the x - 297 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 27
Position: #68 / 77
Number of attempts: 2

Rural Post - 4368 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #640 / 1072
Number of attempts: 2

Satisfy the go linter - 2329 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: 28
Position: #340 / 457
Number of attempts: 1

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 930 entries

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

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #237 / 296
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1115 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #366 / 518
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #780 / 1257
Number of attempts: 3

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6208 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #422 / 1517
Number of attempts: 7

Quote modules - 1054 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #130 / 274
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: #1481 / 1879
Number of attempts: 1

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: 15
Position: #537 / 840
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 31
Position: #236 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

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: 23
Position: #56 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3537 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #1071 / 1144
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3675 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #430 / 827
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #520 / 700
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: 27
Position: #60 / 115
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2556 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #373 / 695
Number of attempts: 6

Learn some german verbs - 531 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #63 / 131
Number of attempts: 3

Interweave two blocks of text - 631 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 29
Position: #204 / 211
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5587 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #259 / 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: 21
Position: #161 / 266
Number of attempts: 3

Create a table - 325 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #56 / 104
Number of attempts: 7

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: 13
Position: #152 / 287
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 430 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #74 / 123
Number of attempts: 5

Order and join - 956 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #136 / 255
Number of attempts: 6

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: 14
Position: #504 / 662
Number of attempts: 2

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: 15
Position: #121 / 203
Number of attempts: 3

Separating firstname & lastname - 120 entries

Seperate named with equal tabs.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #24 / 55
Number of attempts: 3

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: 30
Position: #126 / 223
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 626 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #226 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 362 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #39 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #666 / 1186
Number of attempts: 2

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #278 / 343
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 35
Position: #66 / 86
Number of attempts: 3

Space out the alphabet - 1627 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #134 / 440
Number of attempts: 9

ASCII box - 325 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #78 / 104
Number of attempts: 2

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: 20
Position: #220 / 242
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2369 / 4161
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 232 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #123 / 158
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #869 / 1129
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #129 / 351
Number of attempts: 3

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 243 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #60 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #124 / 268
Number of attempts: 4

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #215 / 293
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #374 / 578
Number of attempts: 2

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 29
Position: #76 / 101
Number of attempts: 1

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: 16
Position: #662 / 1072
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1162 / 3946
Number of attempts: 3

Pairs of numbers - 360 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

Best score: 26
Best player score: 32
Position: #50 / 133
Number of attempts: 2

Delete unwanted lines - 396 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #182 / 225
Number of attempts: 1

Block Fun 1 - 189 entries

Manipulate the columns to produce desired result.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #21 / 73
Number of attempts: 5

Prefixes and suffixes - 593 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 30
Position: #153 / 193
Number of attempts: 1

Dehamlizing - 180 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #43 / 69
Number of attempts: 1

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #107 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #266 / 356
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: 13
Position: #308 / 439
Number of attempts: 1

Stairs Indenting - 448 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #133 / 193
Number of attempts: 4

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #129 / 441
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #492 / 738
Number of attempts: 3

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #346 / 403
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 695 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: 19
Position: #241 / 270
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #651 / 1736
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 558 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #301 / 356
Number of attempts: 1

Sort the cardinal numbers - 293 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #133 / 146
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1859 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #70 / 639
Number of attempts: 1

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1221 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #104 / 401
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #360 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Compile C - 365 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #73 / 132
Number of attempts: 4

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 460 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #150 / 233
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 1014 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #207 / 338
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat most common surnames - 647 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #123 / 198
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #297 / 558
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1327 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 37
Position: #433 / 529
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1894 / 3581
Number of attempts: 1

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #960 / 1616
Number of attempts: 1