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Simple, Practical, and Common - 32765 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: #610 / 7241
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values - 4409 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #100 / 1235
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18294 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #86 / 3770
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4615 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #401 / 1846
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2081 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #81 / 618
Number of attempts: 6

Copy three lines - 2766 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #20 / 620
Number of attempts: 8

Extract argument from function - 2194 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #168 / 723
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 4583 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #460 / 1518
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2467 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #132 / 675
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11086 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #702 / 4093
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 982 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #23 / 259
Number of attempts: 9

Basic renumbering - 5408 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #37 / 1221
Number of attempts: 8

Wrap text in quotes - 324 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #22 / 111
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7448 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #210 / 2019
Number of attempts: 6

Pretty multi-line bash - 212 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #16 / 72
Number of attempts: 6

C Reformatting - 675 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #32 / 156
Number of attempts: 8

Paragraph sort - 394 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #17 / 114
Number of attempts: 4

Array of characters - 133 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #9 / 40
Number of attempts: 3

comments galore - 956 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #195 / 406
Number of attempts: 2

Angular naming conventions - 279 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #103 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

Replace and keep the case - 390 entries

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

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #38 / 109
Number of attempts: 6

Scrambled numbers - 769 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #12 / 178
Number of attempts: 9

Alsa configuration - 478 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #36 / 122
Number of attempts: 4

Align commas - 1010 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #40 / 232
Number of attempts: 3

A grid of punctuation - 112 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #16 / 52
Number of attempts: 4

Generate a list of numbers - 269 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #26 / 127
Number of attempts: 3

Mirror Symmetry - 752 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #63 / 257
Number of attempts: 5

From A to B - 533 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #26 / 149
Number of attempts: 8

Collect List - 4155 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #236 / 1161
Number of attempts: 1

camel riding - 737 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #53 / 264
Number of attempts: 4

Space out the alphabet - 1551 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #60 / 425
Number of attempts: 5

Fix the XML - 934 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #39 / 273
Number of attempts: 7

Condensed Cases - 735 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: #45 / 226
Number of attempts: 8

I forgot quotes - 15666 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #445 / 4098
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3081 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #174 / 1100
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 935 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #39 / 334
Number of attempts: 6

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1089 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #51 / 288
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 1923 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: 11
Position: #69 / 565
Number of attempts: 7

Where should I put the Newline? - 832 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #181 / 416
Number of attempts: 3

Mess in revision history - 1117 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #39 / 239
Number of attempts: 9

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10513 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1006 / 3629
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3350 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #117 / 678
Number of attempts: 10

Letter case trickery - 1524 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: 9
Position: #4 / 494
Number of attempts: 7

quotes inside quotes - 2998 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: #242 / 1037
Number of attempts: 6

Words in parens - 12690 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #682 / 3906
Number of attempts: 1

Saving the hashes(#) - 1937 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #41 / 462
Number of attempts: 7

Vertical Limit - 2319 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #49 / 706
Number of attempts: 9

replacing each line of a block selection - 2751 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #180 / 726
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 1946 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #131 / 618
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 4868 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #431 / 1691
Number of attempts: 2

Make it more readable - 1860 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #75 / 613
Number of attempts: 7

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2797 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #90 / 638
Number of attempts: 8

Simple text editing with Vim - 11431 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #428 / 3357
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5864 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #146 / 1449
Number of attempts: 12