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Paste a column after a column - 2511 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #142 / 547
Number of attempts: 8

HS exam question - 1577 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 64
Position: #152 / 415
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat symbols in list - 1606 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #92 / 344
Number of attempts: 11

Poorly indented Python comments - 1313 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #61 / 220
Number of attempts: 13

delete swap - 1768 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #222 / 548
Number of attempts: 3

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 30
Position: #71 / 271
Number of attempts: 11

Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 36
Position: #353 / 589
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1753 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #108 / 380
Number of attempts: 7

Python dataclasses - 1127 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #136 / 283
Number of attempts: 6

Python: Def to Lambda - 453 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #49 / 155
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2374 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #187 / 469
Number of attempts: 8

xrandr outputs and dashes - 704 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #166 / 221
Number of attempts: 9

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33584 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: #1188 / 7407
Number of attempts: 11

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 917 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #100 / 260
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4610 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #392 / 1267
Number of attempts: 5

Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #26 / 42
Number of attempts: 5

Quote modules - 1073 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #79 / 280
Number of attempts: 9

Add semicolons - 10846 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1165 / 3060
Number of attempts: 3

Bad Copy Syntax - 2028 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #331 / 522
Number of attempts: 1

multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #195 / 380
Number of attempts: 6

From argument to object - 1503 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #344 / 455
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4973 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #326 / 1619
Number of attempts: 5

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #36 / 129
Number of attempts: 8

On Being Stylish - 81 entries

Your PR cannot be accepted if you don't follow our corporate style guide.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 46
Position: #16 / 21
Number of attempts: 7

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 41
Position: #98 / 273
Number of attempts: 2

Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #90 / 133
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 659 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #49 / 214
Number of attempts: 7

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #134 / 267
Number of attempts: 16

Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #740 / 2125
Number of attempts: 7

Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #136 / 259
Number of attempts: 7

Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #62 / 118
Number of attempts: 8

Hello ${world} - 324 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #42 / 96
Number of attempts: 4

move titles next to url, in quotes - 529 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #12 / 139
Number of attempts: 7

Array transposition - 2415 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #204 / 446
Number of attempts: 7

Swap assigned value - 643 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #169 / 253
Number of attempts: 8

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #675 / 1190
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #89 / 281
Number of attempts: 3

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #54 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #49 / 290
Number of attempts: 12

Line 'em up! - 420 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #31 / 113
Number of attempts: 6

Condensed Cases - 800 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #27 / 245
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 15970 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1560 / 4175
Number of attempts: 6

Don't know what this is - 2014 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #200 / 582
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10657 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2166 / 3679
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3498 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #452 / 696
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #137 / 3960
Number of attempts: 2

Execute immediate SQL - 90 entries

Sql string tranformation ...

Best score: 58
Best player score: 70
Position: #13 / 32
Number of attempts: 4

Python: Lots of function arguments - 105 entries

The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 16
Position: #38 / 48
Number of attempts: 1

Add links to an existing HTML table - 97 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Best score: 42
Best player score: 43
Position: #10 / 31
Number of attempts: 4

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 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: #223 / 446
Number of attempts: 6

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #34 / 754
Number of attempts: 8

Exchanging Quotes - 851 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #37 / 228
Number of attempts: 8

replacing each line of a block selection - 2996 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #61 / 775
Number of attempts: 11

Switch function arguments - 2118 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #74 / 657
Number of attempts: 5

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 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: #193 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5067 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #805 / 1746
Number of attempts: 3

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 43
Position: #135 / 204
Number of attempts: 1

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 76
Position: #15 / 66
Number of attempts: 6

Change the content of a string - 1552 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #287 / 580
Number of attempts: 7

Simple text editing with Vim - 12692 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #349 / 3667
Number of attempts: 13

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6871 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #74 / 1682
Number of attempts: 14