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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33715 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: #1385 / 7440
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4639 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #898 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #441 / 3869
  • Number of attempts: 7
Swap values inside brackets - 2507 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #392 / 582
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3602 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #177 / 1168
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3865 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #191 / 873
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7915 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #844 / 1880
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 23
  • Position: #248 / 381
  • Number of attempts: 2
html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #31 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1509 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: #219 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11479 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2512 / 4207
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5675 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #489 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 2
ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #226 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7942 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1327 / 2137
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2225 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: #100 / 676
  • Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 857 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: 31
  • Position: #136 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1772 / 4188
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10676 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2239 / 3687
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2943 / 3968
  • Number of attempts: 1
Transposition - 99 entries

Transpose the original lines in separate columns, one for each line.

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #26 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 2
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