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Simple, Practical, and Common - 32904 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: 32
Position: #5797 / 7270
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4440 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #262 / 1241
Number of attempts: 11

Swap values inside brackets - 2431 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 24
Position: #477 / 560
Number of attempts: 5

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 15
Position: #1034 / 1121
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3376 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 48
Position: #730 / 760
Number of attempts: 1

Box it - 7680 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #454 / 1835
Number of attempts: 7

Cool or not? - 761 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #85 / 216
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2215 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #689 / 728
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4651 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #564 / 1541
Number of attempts: 5

Number Sort - 284 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: #103 / 152
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2498 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 20
Position: #663 / 683
Number of attempts: 1

comment and uncomment code inline - 995 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #186 / 296
Number of attempts: 7

Just the middle - 11136 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2780 / 4112
Number of attempts: 4

Make HTML List - 987 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 46
Position: #134 / 261
Number of attempts: 6

Todo list specification - 365 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 42
Position: #163 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Basic renumbering - 5430 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #471 / 1227
Number of attempts: 8

Simple addition - 293 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #102 / 108
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 916 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #114 / 257
Number of attempts: 10

Create a table - 302 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 42
Position: #97 / 98
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7520 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #449 / 2043
Number of attempts: 11

Paragraph sort - 414 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #66 / 120
Number of attempts: 7

Angular naming conventions - 280 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: 32
Position: #105 / 109
Number of attempts: 1

Align commas - 1040 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: #79 / 236
Number of attempts: 13

Hello ${world} - 293 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #66 / 92
Number of attempts: 6

Put the months in order - 915 entries

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

Best score: 20
Best player score: 55
Position: #135 / 155
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4178 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #589 / 1166
Number of attempts: 7

Space out the alphabet - 1590 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #357 / 433
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 752 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: #56 / 230
Number of attempts: 11

I forgot quotes - 15728 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #3459 / 4114
Number of attempts: 2

120 Degrees - 441 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #47 / 140
Number of attempts: 12

Gray area - 698 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #111 / 259
Number of attempts: 6

Don't know what this is - 1948 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: 12
Position: #218 / 571
Number of attempts: 10

Mess in revision history - 1143 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 29
Position: #191 / 242
Number of attempts: 6

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10533 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2344 / 3637
Number of attempts: 1

Letter case trickery - 1547 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: 18
Position: #466 / 498
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1694 / 3919
Number of attempts: 7

Minimalist Limerick - 503 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 31
Position: #29 / 167
Number of attempts: 10

Resort and deup a CSV list - 135 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 70
Position: #31 / 37
Number of attempts: 4

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1005 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #120 / 418
Number of attempts: 9

replacing each line of a block selection - 2791 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #110 / 732
Number of attempts: 10

Switch function arguments - 1982 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #163 / 627
Number of attempts: 7

Append semicolon after expressions - 942 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #231 / 385
Number of attempts: 3

Make it more readable - 1891 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #179 / 622
Number of attempts: 5

remove dupes from array - 1290 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 19
Position: #115 / 325
Number of attempts: 5

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1157 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #92 / 382
Number of attempts: 5

A Simple One - 924 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #502 / 612
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1203 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #248 / 488
Number of attempts: 4

Make Fancy Header - 963 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #305 / 326
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1350 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #265 / 521
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1189 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #218 / 483
Number of attempts: 4

Reconstruct the Sentence - 1151 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 39
Position: #337 / 347
Number of attempts: 3