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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: #972 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #172 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18776 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #249 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 11
multiple cursor alternative - 1521 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #58 / 381
  • Number of attempts: 6
From argument to object - 1513 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: #194 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 3
Number Sort - 314 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: #52 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1130 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: #178 / 324
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2457 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 2
Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #70 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 6
Text to HTML Table - 180 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

  • Best score: 52
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #34 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 1
Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 27 entries

Convert from one format to another

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 80
  • Position: #9 / 12
  • Number of attempts: 1
For all cases. - 161 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #4 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 900 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #35 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #533 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 1
Hidden Message - 93 entries

Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #22 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 1
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #40 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 992 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: 23
  • Position: #215 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 1
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #38 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 9
Align commas - 1097 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: #71 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add Go XML to structure tags - 172 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #51 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #311 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #312 / 1192
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3332 / 4192
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1141 / 3691
  • Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #794 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 7
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #108 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 4
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