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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: 32
Position: #5850 / 7422
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4622 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #908 / 1269
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1785 / 3865
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4806 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1284 / 1894
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10867 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #38 / 3065
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #494 / 703
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4990 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #586 / 1625
Number of attempts: 5

Just the middle - 11458 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2608 / 4199
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #355 / 588
Number of attempts: 1

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: #68 / 133
Number of attempts: 5

Stairstep digits - 394 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #103 / 145
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5662 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 20
Position: #814 / 1265
Number of attempts: 1

create arrows in a list - 117 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #49 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #218 / 291
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: 19
Position: #96 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

Fun With The Diagonal - 107 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #53 / 81
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph breaks - 522 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #144 / 167
Number of attempts: 1

comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #364 / 424
Number of attempts: 2

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #143 / 184
Number of attempts: 1

Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 13
Position: #216 / 269
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #91 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #268 / 444
Number of attempts: 1

Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

Best score: 24
Best player score: 30
Position: #75 / 83
Number of attempts: 6

Happy TvvO - 427 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #127 / 206
Number of attempts: 1

I forgot quotes - 15990 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #735 / 4182
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #861 / 1138
Number of attempts: 4

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #341 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #233 / 271
Number of attempts: 3

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: 15
Position: #414 / 585
Number of attempts: 1

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #389 / 437
Number of attempts: 2

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1257 / 3684
Number of attempts: 5

Coordinates placeholder - 73 entries

Place coordinates instead of target search.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #17 / 38
Number of attempts: 2

NATO phonetic alphabet - 529 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #165 / 196
Number of attempts: 1

Simple Maths 2 - 44 entries

Time to practice expression register! #maths #linear

Best score: 17
Best player score: 21
Position: #8 / 16
Number of attempts: 4

The name of the game - 668 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #228 / 361
Number of attempts: 1

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 9
Position: #307 / 445
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #302 / 755
Number of attempts: 1

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #102 / 230
Number of attempts: 1

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 13
Position: #423 / 663
Number of attempts: 2

Remove semicolons after expressions - 654 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 10
Position: #250 / 263
Number of attempts: 3

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #276 / 363
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: 16
Position: #408 / 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: 22
Position: #183 / 336
Number of attempts: 2

Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

Best score: 29
Best player score: 32
Position: #120 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

HTML to Haml - 878 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 32
Position: #79 / 204
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1932 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #416 / 653
Number of attempts: 3

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: 13
Position: #175 / 406
Number of attempts: 1

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: 15
Position: #282 / 516
Number of attempts: 3

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: #467 / 664
Number of attempts: 1

Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #332 / 458
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 688 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #342 / 408
Number of attempts: 2

Sorting paragraphs - 534 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

Best score: 18
Best player score: 27
Position: #71 / 163
Number of attempts: 3

The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #242 / 527
Number of attempts: 2

Context insensitive completion 0 - 577 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 9
Position: #205 / 246
Number of attempts: 2

Make Fancy Header - 1052 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #242 / 344
Number of attempts: 4

Reverse characters in a line - 771 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #76 / 265
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat most common surnames - 717 entries

Reformat copy-pasted table into a list of the most common surnames

Best score: 23
Best player score: 26
Position: #80 / 210
Number of attempts: 5

Change the content of a string - 1581 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #377 / 589
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1454 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #207 / 565
Number of attempts: 5