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Many duplicates - 1254 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #52 / 413
Number of attempts: 2

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: 42
Position: #60 / 145
Number of attempts: 4

delete swap - 1534 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #27 / 482
Number of attempts: 7

Fix the shell script! - 2344 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #25 / 542
Number of attempts: 5

Visual block training - 1005 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #47 / 185
Number of attempts: 7

hello-world-vimgolf - 2361 entries

Simple number generation

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #187 / 667
Number of attempts: 3

Learn to ask for :help - 541 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

Best score: 19
Best player score: 38
Position: #96 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

Plotting some variables in python - 1567 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: 40
Position: #120 / 334
Number of attempts: 3

Lowercase first characters - 467 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: 33
Position: #23 / 175
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1662 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #146 / 371
Number of attempts: 4

Inverting Lines - 1837 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #158 / 498
Number of attempts: 4

Python dataclasses - 1105 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #145 / 278
Number of attempts: 2

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: 22
Position: #72 / 227
Number of attempts: 8

Rural Post - 4368 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #181 / 1072
Number of attempts: 4

Add string initializers to an enum - 862 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #142 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

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: 20
Position: #115 / 244
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: #691 / 1585
Number of attempts: 3

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 938 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 42
Position: #127 / 364
Number of attempts: 1

Line under headers - 2004 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 28
Position: #236 / 496
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1161 / 3946
Number of attempts: 4

NATO phonetic alphabet - 501 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #108 / 191
Number of attempts: 2

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 401 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

Best score: 8
Best player score: 11
Position: #155 / 188
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #321 / 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: 9
Position: #247 / 439
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #330 / 441
Number of attempts: 3

calculations - 262 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 47
Position: #39 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2448 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #300 / 738
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #324 / 652
Number of attempts: 4

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #253 / 403
Number of attempts: 1

Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #121 / 258
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #310 / 640
Number of attempts: 2

Sort entries based on date - 363 entries

Sort some entries in a Ledger-file based on date.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #65 / 114
Number of attempts: 9

A Simple One - 1001 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #540 / 643
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 662 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #45 / 401
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #264 / 512
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 709 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: 13
Position: #82 / 249
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1476 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 27
Position: #470 / 558
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 737
Number of attempts: 8

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: 13
Position: #669 / 3581
Number of attempts: 3