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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: 22
Position: #416 / 7500
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #13 / 3898
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4853 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #285 / 1909
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #613 / 710
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5102 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #413 / 1662
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #445 / 4240
Number of attempts: 3

Adam's challenge - 1018 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #14 / 278
Number of attempts: 3

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 195 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 46
Position: #53 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 344 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: #55 / 177
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7997 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #887 / 2152
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 1079 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #45 / 431
Number of attempts: 2

Mirrored text - 199 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #18 / 74
Number of attempts: 5

Replace and keep the case - 448 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #61 / 121
Number of attempts: 4

O Christmas Tree - 123 entries

Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #9 / 44
Number of attempts: 6

From A to B - 603 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #70 / 160
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #703 / 1196
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #134 / 353
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #42 / 282
Number of attempts: 5

readability - 331 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #122 / 153
Number of attempts: 1

Fill visual area - 107 entries

Just have fun!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #5 / 39
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #274 / 4216
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #124 / 1143
Number of attempts: 5

Count both ways - 1030 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #310 / 356
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1184 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #39 / 305
Number of attempts: 10

Vim tetris - 384 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #37 / 105
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 394 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #56 / 113
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #815 / 3711
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3565 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #464 / 709
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1663 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: 12
Position: #312 / 522
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #209 / 1089
Number of attempts: 5

Assign list - 202 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 49
Position: #41 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #66 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 299 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #117 / 228
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 679 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #152 / 364
Number of attempts: 4

lamb had a little Mary - 641 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #63 / 177
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 479 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #9 / 199
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2624 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #162 / 774
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 3040 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #266 / 785
Number of attempts: 7

Remove noise from HTTP log - 741 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: #85 / 279
Number of attempts: 4

un-C-escape string - 58 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #38 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #885 / 1758
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 2090 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: 16
Position: #323 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 486 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #77 / 179
Number of attempts: 6

The Cake is a Lie - 1390 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #163 / 539
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: 14
Position: #1222 / 3874
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7579 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 42
Position: #1019 / 1871
Number of attempts: 2