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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33100 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: #4 / 7301
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #651 / 1247
Number of attempts: 1

One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1562 / 3811
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4650 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #183 / 1863
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #4 / 625
Number of attempts: 4

Extract argument from function - 2267 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #336 / 736
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1726 / 4140
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 54
Position: #232 / 265
Number of attempts: 1

Missing Library and a Typo - 838 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #132 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

Create a table - 309 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 20
Position: #76 / 100
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap text in quotes - 348 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #48 / 119
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7627 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #839 / 2067
Number of attempts: 2

Pretty multi-line bash - 218 entries

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

Best score: 15
Best player score: 31
Position: #64 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 687 entries

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

Best score: 30
Best player score: 55
Position: #101 / 160
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting a glossary - 116 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #10 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

Alsa configuration - 485 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #52 / 123
Number of attempts: 2

Align commas - 1046 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: 17
Position: #139 / 238
Number of attempts: 1

ascii-art diamond - 34 entries

Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.

Best score: 40
Best player score: 56
Position: #12 / 14
Number of attempts: 2

A grid of punctuation - 120 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #7 / 56
Number of attempts: 2

From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #115 / 154
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #23 / 1176
Number of attempts: 2

Rail fence transposition cipher - 70 entries

Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 28
Position: #19 / 24
Number of attempts: 1

swap or reverse - 105 entries

Try to swap or reverse the line as needed.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #8 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

readability - 310 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 147
Number of attempts: 1

Interleave lines - 143 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 34
Position: #39 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

Logging with key - 299 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #58 / 85
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #267 / 436
Number of attempts: 4

remove all lines in first part - 189 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #13 / 64
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 962 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #108 / 280
Number of attempts: 1

Line 'em up! - 384 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: 21
Position: #66 / 107
Number of attempts: 1

Shuffled numbers - 224 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #10 / 90
Number of attempts: 3

Mute the second method of this script - 444 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #62 / 236
Number of attempts: 3

Remove hard line breaks - 61 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #14 / 29
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1511 / 4133
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3142 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #536 / 1120
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #660 / 3646
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #648 / 3930
Number of attempts: 4

Tiny column alignment - 39 entries

Align using the four blocks, don't forget to lowercase and have fun!

Best score: 33
Best player score: 40
Position: #9 / 18
Number of attempts: 8

Louis Caruana
Twitter: @louiecaruana

USAF vet, astronomy, Libertarian GOP, Linux, & soccer. Desperately hoping for an end of 1 party, 2 names government.