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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: #416 / 7364
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18616 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #13 / 3842
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4751 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #285 / 1879
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2886 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #606 / 700
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #413 / 1585
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #445 / 4164
Number of attempts: 3

Adam's challenge - 957 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 / 266
Number of attempts: 3

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 161 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: #49 / 60
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 325 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 / 171
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7805 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #873 / 2101
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 998 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #45 / 418
Number of attempts: 2

Mirrored text - 163 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #18 / 69
Number of attempts: 5

Replace and keep the case - 407 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #57 / 115
Number of attempts: 4

O Christmas Tree - 108 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #7 / 42
Number of attempts: 6

From A to B - 564 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #66 / 155
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4264 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #695 / 1186
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 536 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #134 / 343
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 769 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #42 / 274
Number of attempts: 5

readability - 312 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #118 / 148
Number of attempts: 1

Fill visual area - 82 entries

Just have fun!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #5 / 36
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15931 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #274 / 4161
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3176 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #124 / 1129
Number of attempts: 5

Count both ways - 1001 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #305 / 351
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1120 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #39 / 293
Number of attempts: 10

Vim tetris - 352 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #34 / 101
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 356 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: #53 / 108
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10624 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #815 / 3666
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3444 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #454 / 692
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1594 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: #305 / 511
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3125 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 / 1072
Number of attempts: 5

Assign list - 169 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 49
Position: #37 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 516 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 34
Position: #65 / 171
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 280 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #117 / 218
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 650 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #152 / 356
Number of attempts: 4

lamb had a little Mary - 586 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #62 / 163
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 448 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #9 / 193
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2440 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #151 / 737
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 2947 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #256 / 768
Number of attempts: 7

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: #85 / 270
Number of attempts: 4

un-C-escape string - 56 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #38 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5036 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #874 / 1736
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 1912 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: #307 / 500
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 456 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: #73 / 172
Number of attempts: 6

The Cake is a Lie - 1286 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #163 / 512
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1154 / 3581
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6560 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #927 / 1616
Number of attempts: 2