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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33964 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: 31
  • Position: #5655 / 7500
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #3447 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1044 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #1696 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 767 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #178 / 180
  • Number of attempts: 1
convert yml into java pojo field - 873 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: 39
  • Position: #211 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3195 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: 17
  • Position: #704 / 1089
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3365 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 2
Delete unwanted lines - 441 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #230 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #169 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1145 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #396 / 454
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #698 / 774
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1641 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #537 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13509 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3204 / 3874
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 64
  • Position: #1724 / 1871
  • Number of attempts: 1
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