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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: #1556 / 7301
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #614 / 1247
Number of attempts: 6

One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1820 / 3811
Number of attempts: 6

Swap values inside brackets - 2441 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #455 / 564
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: 8
Position: #1335 / 1863
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2792 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #502 / 826
Number of attempts: 9

Swap the operands under comparison - 266 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 35
Position: #86 / 96
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #229 / 625
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3480 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #514 / 1127
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3496 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 24
Position: #621 / 784
Number of attempts: 6

Box it - 7725 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 33
Position: #1488 / 1844
Number of attempts: 2

Cool or not? - 766 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #80 / 219
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2856 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #498 / 691
Number of attempts: 4

Copy three lines - 2824 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #458 / 630
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4743 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #993 / 1572
Number of attempts: 3

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 526 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 38
Position: #87 / 123
Number of attempts: 2

Number Sort - 299 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #81 / 159
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #192 / 689
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: #2739 / 4140
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1790 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #197 / 575
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5486 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1041 / 1243
Number of attempts: 5

Vice versa - 7627 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1332 / 2067
Number of attempts: 4

Order and join - 913 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #58 / 248
Number of attempts: 9

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #356 / 414
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: 16
Position: #135 / 238
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2122 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: #6 / 649
Number of attempts: 6

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 612 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: 15
Position: #81 / 197
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 958 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #119 / 237
Number of attempts: 2

simple format (3) - 55 entries

reverse two column values!

Best score: 34
Best player score: 57
Position: #13 / 16
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 721 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 6
Position: #251 / 353
Number of attempts: 3

Put the months in order - 922 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 48
Position: #108 / 156
Number of attempts: 7

move titles next to url, in quotes - 496 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #67 / 130
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2321 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #301 / 434
Number of attempts: 3

Simple format (2) - 321 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 29
Position: #31 / 67
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4212 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #725 / 1176
Number of attempts: 6

Space out the alphabet - 1602 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #329 / 436
Number of attempts: 4

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: 21
Position: #25 / 29
Number of attempts: 4

Simple Maths - 45 entries

Not much to say, discover by yourself!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 34
Position: #13 / 25
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1785 / 4133
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3142 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #679 / 1120
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor static member invocation - 194 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 37
Position: #42 / 62
Number of attempts: 11

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1107 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #149 / 292
Number of attempts: 7

Don't know what this is - 1959 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: 16
Position: #519 / 574
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2330 / 3646
Number of attempts: 1

quotes inside quotes - 3077 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: 16
Position: #635 / 1057
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2436 / 3930
Number of attempts: 4

Saving the hashes(#) - 1973 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: 27
Position: #260 / 468
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 2883 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #396 / 756
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 4993 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #1210 / 1722
Number of attempts: 7

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3103 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #277 / 689
Number of attempts: 7

Simple text editing with Vim - 11862 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1666 / 3471
Number of attempts: 8