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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: #1300 / 7420
Number of attempts: 12

Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #726 / 1268
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1895 / 3864
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 18
Position: #328 / 579
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #538 / 1893
Number of attempts: 6

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2880 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #299 / 851
Number of attempts: 2

Add semicolons - 10852 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #881 / 3063
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #137 / 1876
Number of attempts: 4

From argument to object - 1508 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: 21
Position: #374 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #10 / 703
Number of attempts: 10

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: 16
Position: #265 / 640
Number of attempts: 3

Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #7 / 119
Number of attempts: 7

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #506 / 1624
Number of attempts: 4

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 12
Position: #474 / 701
Number of attempts: 2

comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 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: 9
Position: #82 / 322
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2579 / 4197
Number of attempts: 4

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 110 entries

Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 45
Position: #43 / 44
Number of attempts: 2

Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 47
Position: #153 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 49 entries

sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files

Best score: 31
Best player score: 57
Position: #17 / 20
Number of attempts: 2

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 994 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 41
Position: #74 / 380
Number of attempts: 4

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 261 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #25 / 141
Number of attempts: 6

Missing Library and a Typo - 887 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: 21
Position: #162 / 213
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1051 / 1264
Number of attempts: 1

Adam's challenge - 984 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: 18
Position: #62 / 270
Number of attempts: 9

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #336 / 2128
Number of attempts: 15

Free hyphen! - 169 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #17 / 89
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph sort - 450 entries

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

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #66 / 125
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting a glossary - 131 entries

Sort a glossary. Glossary head contains a header phrase ending with ':' and glossary body has multi line text indented with a tab.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #57 / 81
Number of attempts: 2

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #30 / 167
Number of attempts: 6

comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #240 / 424
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 31
Position: #147 / 184
Number of attempts: 4

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: 29
Position: #14 / 227
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #975 / 1190
Number of attempts: 1

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #255 / 347
Number of attempts: 1

ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 27
Position: #73 / 107
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2218 / 4180
Number of attempts: 6

learn vim in short time - 240 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #102 / 161
Number of attempts: 2

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #841 / 1137
Number of attempts: 3

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #106 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #283 / 300
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #196 / 437
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1214 / 3683
Number of attempts: 4

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: 13
Position: #413 / 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: 14
Position: #284 / 1078
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1656 / 3963
Number of attempts: 2

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #69 / 174
Number of attempts: 5

lamb had a little Mary - 609 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 44
Position: #153 / 168
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #308 / 445
Number of attempts: 2

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #661 / 777
Number of attempts: 1

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #115 / 273
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #492 / 1748
Number of attempts: 4

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #303 / 650
Number of attempts: 3

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: 12
Position: #151 / 516
Number of attempts: 8

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: #463 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #40 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1052 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #199 / 344
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat some Python - 609 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 35
Position: #61 / 236
Number of attempts: 9

Change the content of a string - 1580 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #173 / 588
Number of attempts: 4

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: #522 / 3694
Number of attempts: 14