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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33617 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: #45 / 7421
Number of attempts: 3

Wget failed to download redirections - 202 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 24
Position: #54 / 65
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #1566 / 1893
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #515 / 753
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1193 / 1624
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #555 / 701
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1644 / 4197
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 18
Position: #1708 / 2128
Number of attempts: 1

Swap assigned value - 647 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 13
Position: #225 / 254
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #891 / 1190
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #207 / 347
Number of attempts: 2

Condensed Cases - 804 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: 14
Position: #133 / 247
Number of attempts: 3

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #55 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 19
Position: #3413 / 4180
Number of attempts: 2

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #60 / 161
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #921 / 1137
Number of attempts: 1

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #207 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 253 entries

Just testing.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #70 / 116
Number of attempts: 2

Change name of a variable - 179 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #89 / 137
Number of attempts: 1

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #212 / 271
Number of attempts: 2

NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 139 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #49 / 58
Number of attempts: 2

Refactor static member invocation - 199 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 41
Position: #52 / 64
Number of attempts: 1

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 253 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 22
Position: #88 / 103
Number of attempts: 2

Two become one - 713 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

Best score: 25
Best player score: 35
Position: #156 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #333 / 437
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 41
Position: #231 / 250
Number of attempts: 1

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #1960 / 3683
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 31
Position: #425 / 702
Number of attempts: 3

Letter case trickery - 1630 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: 12
Position: #338 / 518
Number of attempts: 2

quotes inside quotes - 3159 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: 17
Position: #854 / 1078
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2194 / 3963
Number of attempts: 3

Delete unwanted lines - 413 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #147 / 229
Number of attempts: 1

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #185 / 360
Number of attempts: 1

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #291 / 446
Number of attempts: 2

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 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: 28
Position: #294 / 480
Number of attempts: 2

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #273 / 445
Number of attempts: 1

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #479 / 754
Number of attempts: 2

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #567 / 663
Number of attempts: 1

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #336 / 419
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1376 / 1748
Number of attempts: 1

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #472 / 650
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1358 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: 27
Position: #281 / 336
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #463 / 652
Number of attempts: 2

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1244 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: 14
Position: #239 / 406
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1999 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 18
Position: #376 / 516
Number of attempts: 1

A Simple One - 1050 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: #401 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #366 / 527
Number of attempts: 2

Change the content of a string - 1580 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #341 / 588
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1451 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 39
Position: #507 / 563
Number of attempts: 1

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3665 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 26
Position: #423 / 787
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 42
Position: #979 / 1706
Number of attempts: 1