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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33073 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 / 7295
Number of attempts: 17

Reconstruct the actual output from my unit test tool report - 135 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 / 47
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4484 entries

Well, swap the values...

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

One number per line - 18472 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #515 / 3807
Number of attempts: 11

V to the i - 4647 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #647 / 1861
Number of attempts: 3

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2779 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #135 / 823
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10717 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #493 / 3020
Number of attempts: 8

Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #145 / 625
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #591 / 1128
Number of attempts: 4

Com(m)a Trouble - 3477 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #388 / 779
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7722 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #76 / 1842
Number of attempts: 6

Cool or not? - 765 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #27 / 218
Number of attempts: 8

html paragraph to table - 587 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 53
Position: #36 / 122
Number of attempts: 13

From argument to object - 1441 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: #242 / 441
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 718 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #22 / 169
Number of attempts: 5

Copy three lines - 2819 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 / 629
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 - 4730 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #575 / 1565
Number of attempts: 6

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 510 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 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2520 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #207 / 688
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11284 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2814 / 4140
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1789 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #222 / 574
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5484 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #168 / 1241
Number of attempts: 11

ninja substitution - 1326 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 23
Position: #208 / 252
Number of attempts: 5

Vice versa - 7614 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #458 / 2063
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2119 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 / 648
Number of attempts: 6

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 611 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 / 196
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 - 718 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 / 352
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 - 496 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #50 / 130
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2321 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #135 / 434
Number of attempts: 3

convert yml into java pojo field - 825 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 / 221
Number of attempts: 4

Collect List - 4207 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #421 / 1174
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15822 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1829 / 4129
Number of attempts: 3

-a-b-c- - 3135 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #253 / 1118
Number of attempts: 6

attr_aligner - 3403 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #153 / 686
Number of attempts: 14

Words in parens - 12786 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1707 / 3928
Number of attempts: 3

switch variable - 4978 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #944 / 1716
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 - 11811 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 / 3459
Number of attempts: 7

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6189 entries

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

Best score: 32
Best player score: 42
Position: #927 / 1524
Number of attempts: 1