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Simple, Practical, and Common - 32992 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: #1748 / 7283
Number of attempts: 17

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 133 entries

When a test fails, my unit test tool reports differences between the actual output and the expected output as follow: - line in the expected output but missing in the actual output are prefixed with a dash - unexpected lines in the actual output are prefixed with a plus sign - comments added by the unit test tool are prefixed with a question mark - common lines are showed `as-is` (well, almost;) From that "diff" format, I would like to reconstruct the actual output.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #9 / 45
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4482 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #268 / 1245
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18426 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #515 / 3799
Number of attempts: 11

V to the i - 4645 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #647 / 1859
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2763 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #132 / 818
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10707 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #493 / 3013
Number of attempts: 8

Split line with dots - 2111 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #145 / 624
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3475 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #589 / 1125
Number of attempts: 4

Com(m)a Trouble - 3438 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #383 / 768
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7696 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #76 / 1838
Number of attempts: 6

Cool or not? - 761 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #27 / 216
Number of attempts: 8

html paragraph to table - 583 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 53
Position: #36 / 121
Number of attempts: 13

From argument to object - 1433 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #240 / 437
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 711 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #22 / 167
Number of attempts: 5

Copy three lines - 2815 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #124 / 628
Number of attempts: 8

Convert Application Output to CSV - 180 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #20 / 50
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 4695 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #575 / 1556
Number of attempts: 6

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 501 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: 36
Position: #73 / 119
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2512 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #207 / 685
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11261 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2814 / 4135
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1780 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #222 / 571
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5449 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #168 / 1231
Number of attempts: 11

ninja substitution - 1302 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #204 / 248
Number of attempts: 5

Vice versa - 7563 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #458 / 2054
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2113 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: #98 / 645
Number of attempts: 6

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 606 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: #31 / 193
Number of attempts: 6

Build a six - 267 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #35 / 89
Number of attempts: 5

Delete to the end of the current line - 715 entries

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

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #120 / 350
Number of attempts: 2

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: 23
Position: #25 / 156
Number of attempts: 9

move titles next to url, in quotes - 492 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #49 / 129
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2312 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #134 / 431
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 820 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: #64 / 218
Number of attempts: 4

Collect List - 4190 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #421 / 1169
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15769 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1825 / 4119
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3125 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #253 / 1114
Number of attempts: 6

attr_aligner - 3402 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #153 / 685
Number of attempts: 14

Words in parens - 12769 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1704 / 3925
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 4963 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #942 / 1712
Number of attempts: 1

Overall Vimgolf Rank - 161 entries

Suppose you are trying to figure out what your overall rank is at Vimgolf(the sum of all the ranks you got), and as a Vim ninja you decided to use Vim to do the job. Your solution should work for every Vimgolf profile page(The actual input file for this challenge is my Vimgolf profile page). So, direct answer insertion is considered cheating.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #5 / 57
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11705 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #581 / 3430
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6066 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #915 / 1496
Number of attempts: 1