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Simple, Practical, and Common - 32746 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 / 7235
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18240 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #13 / 3760
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4596 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #285 / 1837
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2773 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #585 / 676
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4534 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #413 / 1507
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11074 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #445 / 4088
Number of attempts: 3

Adam's challenge - 903 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 / 251
Number of attempts: 3

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 153 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: 35
Best player score: 46
Position: #47 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 285 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 / 153
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7414 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #837 / 2011
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 954 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #45 / 405
Number of attempts: 2

Mirrored text - 160 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #18 / 67
Number of attempts: 5

Replace and keep the case - 390 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #54 / 109
Number of attempts: 4

O Christmas Tree - 99 entries

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

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #6 / 40
Number of attempts: 6

From A to B - 533 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #63 / 149
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4146 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #677 / 1159
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 482 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #134 / 322
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 734 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #42 / 263
Number of attempts: 5

readability - 298 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #117 / 143
Number of attempts: 1

Fill visual area - 73 entries

Just have fun!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #5 / 33
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15639 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #274 / 4095
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3077 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #124 / 1099
Number of attempts: 5

Count both ways - 932 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #288 / 333
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1081 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 15
Position: #40 / 286
Number of attempts: 10

Vim tetris - 347 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #33 / 98
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 346 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: #51 / 104
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10507 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #815 / 3626
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3347 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #443 / 677
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1515 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: #294 / 492
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 2996 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: 3
Best player score: 14
Position: #210 / 1037
Number of attempts: 5

Assign list - 146 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 49
Position: #34 / 55
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 500 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 34
Position: #63 / 165
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 250 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #117 / 197
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 597 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #152 / 328
Number of attempts: 4

lamb had a little Mary - 538 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #57 / 153
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 387 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #9 / 176
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2300 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #144 / 701
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 2740 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #239 / 724
Number of attempts: 7

Remove noise from HTTP log - 641 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 / 255
Number of attempts: 4

un-C-escape string - 53 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #38 / 47
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 4863 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #849 / 1688
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 1719 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: #288 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 403 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: #59 / 153
Number of attempts: 6

The Cake is a Lie - 1168 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #163 / 477
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 11354 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1104 / 3335
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5804 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #863 / 1438
Number of attempts: 2