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Search and Replace 0 - 5010 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #961 / 1632
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 575 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #63 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 1
Counting in binary - 526 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #80 / 117
  • Number of attempts: 2
Letter case trickery - 1644 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #369 / 520
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: 18
  • Position: #960 / 1085
  • Number of attempts: 1
Number an outline - 280 entries

The indent and words are right, but the numbers are all wrong.

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #37 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12980 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1949 / 3972
  • Number of attempts: 2
Pairs of numbers - 364 entries

Line 1 represents x, line 2 y-data. Bring the corresponding pairs in the form "[x,y]\n"

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #108 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 1
Assign list - 193 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #49 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 431 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #72 / 234
  • Number of attempts: 2
Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #76 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 3
The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #130 / 363
  • Number of attempts: 1
lamb had a little Mary - 638 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #62 / 175
  • Number of attempts: 5
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1619 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: #190 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 6
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1136 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #210 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vertical Limit - 2576 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #677 / 762
  • Number of attempts: 1
Exchanging Quotes - 859 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #114 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #361 / 779
  • Number of attempts: 3
Switch function arguments - 2179 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #382 / 673
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 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: 16
  • Position: #171 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5089 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1324 / 1751
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #377 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1940 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #390 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2049 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #271 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3814 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #317 / 820
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 13183 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1139 / 3789
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7309 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #1177 / 1805
  • Number of attempts: 1
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