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Simple, Practical, and Common - 32879 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: #740 / 7266
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values - 4420 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #189 / 1238
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18365 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #253 / 3785
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2423 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #210 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2741 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #76 / 813
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3450 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #17 / 1119
  • Number of attempts: 3
multiple cursor alternative - 1441 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: #133 / 368
  • Number of attempts: 4
Copy three lines - 2785 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #441 / 623
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2211 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #42 / 727
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11119 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #202 / 4108
  • Number of attempts: 3
Python challenge - 140 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #25 / 41
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2091 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #30 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 598 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #5 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 4
convert yml into java pojo field - 807 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #5 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15710 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3635 / 4108
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10531 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #326 / 3636
  • Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12721 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2082 / 3914
  • Number of attempts: 3
Dehamlizing - 173 entries

Change this piece of HAML code back into erb

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #13 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 4
The name of the game - 622 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #29 / 340
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1495 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: #134 / 421
  • Number of attempts: 3
Convert pandoc unordered list to a numbered list - 141 entries

I know it's possible to use #. in pandoc to auto-generate numbered lists, but then it's not easy to tell how many items there are when reading it in Markdown. How fast can you make the switch?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #6 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: #99 / 714
  • Number of attempts: 5
replacing each line of a block selection - 2777 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #688 / 731
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 1967 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #26 / 624
  • Number of attempts: 4
Append semicolon after expressions - 939 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #19 / 383
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove semicolons after expressions - 530 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #28 / 231
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 4901 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #153 / 1698
  • Number of attempts: 5
The meaning - 520 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #120 / 335
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort the cardinal numbers - 268 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #29 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove dupes from array - 1281 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #260 / 324
  • Number of attempts: 5
Shebangs for all - 1763 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: #283 / 466
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11589 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #90 / 3402
  • Number of attempts: 18
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5974 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #322 / 1475
  • Number of attempts: 5
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