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Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 532 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #25 / 294
Number of attempts: 1

Paste a column after a column - 2481 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #328 / 537
Number of attempts: 1

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 706 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

Best score: 50
Best player score: 52
Position: #24 / 174
Number of attempts: 5

HS exam question - 1548 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 61
Position: #129 / 411
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat symbols in list - 1573 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 27
Position: #147 / 338
Number of attempts: 2

Many duplicates - 1422 entries

Quick and easy

Best score: 7
Best player score: 10
Position: #355 / 460
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1758 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #211 / 544
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1250 entries

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

Best score: 29
Best player score: 44
Position: #142 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the shell script! - 2540 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 35
Position: #330 / 587
Number of attempts: 1

Visual block training - 1069 entries

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

Best score: 17
Best player score: 37
Position: #109 / 203
Number of attempts: 1

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1656 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #382 / 555
Number of attempts: 1

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #200 / 270
Number of attempts: 1

Fill in the chess board - 953 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 38
Position: #108 / 182
Number of attempts: 1

Plotting some variables in python - 1660 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: 43
Position: #154 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

Create a diamond comment - 337 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 40
Position: #46 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Migrated to Postgres! - 323 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 30
Position: #85 / 126
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1749 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #258 / 379
Number of attempts: 1

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #63 / 100
Number of attempts: 1

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 324 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #129 / 201
Number of attempts: 1

Modernise code - 1386 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 50
Position: #225 / 318
Number of attempts: 1

Put a cross in the square - 221 entries

Put a cross in the square

Best score: 20
Best player score: 23
Position: #64 / 88
Number of attempts: 2

swap number pairs - 2064 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 30
Position: #240 / 375
Number of attempts: 1

HS Final exam vimgolf - 894 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #111 / 235
Number of attempts: 3

Turn the x - 326 entries

Turn the x to a +

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #62 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Multiline to Single Line - 695 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #220 / 300
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 700 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #137 / 220
Number of attempts: 1

Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #378 / 522
Number of attempts: 2

Add text at some column - 171 entries

Complete golang struct statement.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 35
Position: #57 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

Best score: 30
Best player score: 42
Position: #65 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

Unsemantic linewrapping - 918 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #192 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10841 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1764 / 3058
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2025 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 29
Position: #424 / 521
Number of attempts: 1

Number Sort - 314 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #134 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #105 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #192 / 267
Number of attempts: 1

Sudoku table - 92 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

Best score: 48
Best player score: 54
Position: #16 / 34
Number of attempts: 2

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: 16
Position: #158 / 207
Number of attempts: 1

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #148 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

Alphabet soup - 428 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 41
Position: #87 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1256 / 1743
Number of attempts: 1

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