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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33385 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: 22
Position: #1489 / 7364
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4543 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #1127 / 1257
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #771 / 3842
Number of attempts: 10

Swap values inside brackets - 2464 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #150 / 569
Number of attempts: 9

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #909 / 1879
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: 13
Position: #194 / 827
Number of attempts: 5

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 679 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #117 / 386
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1474 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: 26
Position: #307 / 376
Number of attempts: 2

From argument to object - 1474 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: 19
Position: #274 / 450
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #445 / 700
Number of attempts: 3

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #751 / 4164
Number of attempts: 4

Team names - 1805 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #184 / 581
Number of attempts: 5

Stairstep digits - 376 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #87 / 141
Number of attempts: 1

Turn a ninja to case-insensitive [Nn][Ii][Nn][Jj][Aa] regexp! - 63 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: #3 / 37
Number of attempts: 2

create arrows in a list - 106 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #27 / 71
Number of attempts: 1

7th Birthday - 186 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #44 / 73
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2378 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #127 / 443
Number of attempts: 7

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: 29
Position: #37 / 223
Number of attempts: 4

unknown command - 158 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #3 / 83
Number of attempts: 1

Logging with key - 301 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 38
Position: #71 / 86
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2577 / 4161
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #485 / 1129
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #286 / 351
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 732 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #250 / 268
Number of attempts: 1

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #164 / 293
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1907 / 3666
Number of attempts: 2

Resort and deup a CSV list - 142 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 66
Position: #27 / 39
Number of attempts: 3

Cleanining up 80 column concatenated text - 188 entries

1. Put the whole query on one line, remove the concatenation operators 2. Remove the double spaces that appear a few times in the query 3. Use string-interpolated variable statementPid rather than the ugly concatenation

Best score: 31
Best player score: 49
Position: #60 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 165 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 25
Position: #26 / 56
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1091 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #199 / 441
Number of attempts: 1

Inconsistent real estate paste - 184 entries

Format a hand-typed real estate listing that uses inconsistent punctuation into four sections

Best score: 24
Best player score: 45
Position: #39 / 55
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2440 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #304 / 737
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2082 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 16
Position: #576 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1005 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #18 / 403
Number of attempts: 3

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: 15
Position: #34 / 270
Number of attempts: 5

Remove semicolons after expressions - 628 entries

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

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #27 / 258
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1952 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #537 / 640
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat long lines - 341 entries

Rearrange this ruby method call to put each parameter on its own line. Could become a useful macro.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #34 / 130
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse Simple Deletion - 832 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #233 / 454
Number of attempts: 1

Sebastian Korten
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