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Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #239 / 1675
  • Number of attempts: 6
VimGolfNight - 604 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #27 / 357
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: 14
  • Position: #27 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 5
Top X - 230 entries

The End File is the Top 10 Vimgolf Leaderboard at June 29, 2013. This is a second version, with a great contribution of @udioica. X is ten in Roman,a numeric system in ancient Rome

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1241 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hole-in-one - 1040 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #25 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 7
Delete unwanted lines - 450 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #60 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 1
Saving the hashes(#) - 2116 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #89 / 488
  • Number of attempts: 6
Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #70 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #185 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #177 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 3
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