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Simple, Practical, and Common - 32892 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 / 7268
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18377 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #13 / 3787
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4635 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #285 / 1855
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2829 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #594 / 686
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4644 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #413 / 1539
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11135 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #445 / 4111
Number of attempts: 3

Adam's challenge - 913 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 / 256
Number of attempts: 3

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 155 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: #48 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Add to end of each line... kinda - 288 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 / 155
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7512 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #847 / 2039
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 970 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #45 / 410
Number of attempts: 2

Mirrored text - 162 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 - 395 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #55 / 111
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 - 552 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #64 / 152
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4178 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #683 / 1166
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 491 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #134 / 326
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 742 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #42 / 266
Number of attempts: 5

readability - 306 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #117 / 145
Number of attempts: 1

Fill visual area - 77 entries

Just have fun!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #5 / 34
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15719 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #274 / 4110
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3116 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #124 / 1112
Number of attempts: 5

Count both ways - 947 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #293 / 338
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1103 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #39 / 290
Number of attempts: 10

Vim tetris - 351 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #34 / 100
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 348 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: #52 / 105
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #815 / 3637
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3387 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #448 / 683
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1545 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: #299 / 498
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3026 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 / 1044
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 - 503 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 34
Position: #64 / 167
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 259 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #117 / 203
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 622 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #152 / 340
Number of attempts: 4

lamb had a little Mary - 550 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #59 / 156
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 412 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #9 / 181
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2363 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #147 / 714
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 2791 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #244 / 732
Number of attempts: 7

Remove noise from HTTP log - 657 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 / 259
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 - 4903 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #857 / 1699
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 1771 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: #294 / 467
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 408 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: #61 / 156
Number of attempts: 6

The Cake is a Lie - 1190 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #163 / 485
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 11595 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1118 / 3404
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5975 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #879 / 1476
Number of attempts: 2