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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: #656 / 7420
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #110 / 1268
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #107 / 3864
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #414 / 1893
Number of attempts: 2

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #90 / 634
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #115 / 703
Number of attempts: 5

Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #28 / 640
Number of attempts: 7

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: 13
Position: #174 / 753
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 155 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #45 / 72
Number of attempts: 1

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #466 / 1624
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #141 / 701
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #736 / 4197
Number of attempts: 4

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 34
Position: #25 / 273
Number of attempts: 12

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #43 / 1264
Number of attempts: 2

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #28 / 122
Number of attempts: 2

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #220 / 2128
Number of attempts: 5

Pretty multi-line bash - 235 entries

Bash line continuations are much prettier when they're column aligned.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #20 / 77
Number of attempts: 3

7th Birthday - 202 entries

We have a bunch of numbers written from 0 to 9 in the order present in the text input file. The task is to create 7 by replacing the numbers with dashes.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #52 / 75
Number of attempts: 1

C Reformatting - 690 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

Best score: 30
Best player score: 32
Position: #41 / 163
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #23 / 125
Number of attempts: 4

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #14 / 167
Number of attempts: 3

Array of characters - 175 entries

We all copy paste things off the internet, but the syntax doesn't look right. Fix it as fast as possible.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #11 / 47
Number of attempts: 5

comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #204 / 424
Number of attempts: 3

lipsum lines - 278 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 28
Position: #14 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Angular naming conventions - 320 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: 18
Position: #36 / 118
Number of attempts: 4

Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 26
Position: #39 / 118
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #16 / 184
Number of attempts: 6

Alsa configuration - 513 entries

I'm tweaking my ~/.asoundrc file!

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #38 / 128
Number of attempts: 4

Align commas - 1095 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: #45 / 246
Number of attempts: 3

A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #22 / 61
Number of attempts: 5

Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #34 / 140
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #65 / 269
Number of attempts: 6

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #32 / 159
Number of attempts: 3

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #248 / 1190
Number of attempts: 4

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #55 / 281
Number of attempts: 5

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #66 / 444
Number of attempts: 3

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #41 / 290
Number of attempts: 4

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #116 / 239
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #46 / 247
Number of attempts: 3

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #469 / 4180
Number of attempts: 6

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #181 / 1137
Number of attempts: 3

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #40 / 354
Number of attempts: 5

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #19 / 271
Number of attempts: 5

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #52 / 300
Number of attempts: 8

Don't know what this is - 2022 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: 11
Position: #75 / 585
Number of attempts: 5

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: 25
Position: #1 / 208
Number of attempts: 6

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #183 / 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: 17
Position: #40 / 250
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1020 / 3683
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #123 / 702
Number of attempts: 8

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: 9
Position: #5 / 518
Number of attempts: 5

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: 14
Position: #251 / 1078
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #709 / 3963
Number of attempts: 3

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: 8
Position: #82 / 446
Number of attempts: 3

Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #14 / 197
Number of attempts: 1

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: 20
Position: #42 / 480
Number of attempts: 7

Recursively Palindrome - 267 entries

Note that there are 2^6-1 characters.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #12 / 75
Number of attempts: 4

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #50 / 754
Number of attempts: 3

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #88 / 777
Number of attempts: 7

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #133 / 663
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #903 / 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: 13
Position: #77 / 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: 24
Position: #234 / 336
Number of attempts: 1

Happy New Year! - 145 entries

This is a simple new year's challenge.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #4 / 59
Number of attempts: 1

Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #4 / 206
Number of attempts: 2

Numbering a List - 1931 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #11 / 652
Number of attempts: 1

Solve the Sokoban - 177 entries

A wink for all Vimgolfers that play Nethack too.

Best score: 25
Best player score: 25
Position: #5 / 74
Number of attempts: 5

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: 11
Position: #40 / 516
Number of attempts: 7

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #34 / 458
Number of attempts: 6

Compile C - 430 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #14 / 141
Number of attempts: 6

Deleting folded text - 360 entries

The text below contains three folds. Delete them (and the text inside them). For example: 123 456 /*{{{*/ 789 /*}}}*/ 012 Should become: 123 012 Also, add `aoeuaoeu` to make sure small solutions don't get flagged as cheating.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 20
Position: #61 / 117
Number of attempts: 5

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3665 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #118 / 787
Number of attempts: 9

Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #439 / 3694
Number of attempts: 2