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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: 26
Position: #3603 / 7442
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #756 / 1274
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 19
Position: #1805 / 3870
Number of attempts: 2

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #174 / 583
Number of attempts: 6

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1354 / 1897
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2897 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #361 / 857
Number of attempts: 6

Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Best score: 19
Best player score: 23
Position: #56 / 101
Number of attempts: 3

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 18
Position: #305 / 635
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #567 / 1169
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #474 / 876
Number of attempts: 3

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: 21
Position: #217 / 381
Number of attempts: 8

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #352 / 704
Number of attempts: 8

Copy three lines - 2875 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #335 / 641
Number of attempts: 9

Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 25
Position: #50 / 119
Number of attempts: 5

Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #463 / 755
Number of attempts: 3

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #556 / 1630
Number of attempts: 3

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 35
Position: #62 / 129
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: #99 / 166
Number of attempts: 1

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #254 / 701
Number of attempts: 14

comment and uncomment code inline - 1124 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: #197 / 323
Number of attempts: 4

Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2660 / 4209
Number of attempts: 1

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #387 / 589
Number of attempts: 3

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: 32
Position: #115 / 133
Number of attempts: 6

Missing Library and a Typo - 893 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: #82 / 214
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #154 / 1269
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 987 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: 22
Position: #193 / 271
Number of attempts: 6

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 867 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: 13
Position: #125 / 292
Number of attempts: 2

Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #149 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1372 / 2138
Number of attempts: 3

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #172 / 260
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 1048 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #272 / 425
Number of attempts: 4

Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 23
Position: #102 / 184
Number of attempts: 8

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: 16
Position: #142 / 246
Number of attempts: 6

Python challenge - 172 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

Best score: 31
Best player score: 41
Position: #23 / 46
Number of attempts: 6

One to Ten - 2227 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: #44 / 677
Number of attempts: 6

Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 662 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #94 / 208
Number of attempts: 4

Build a six - 294 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #13 / 95
Number of attempts: 2

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #123 / 249
Number of attempts: 8

Delete to the end of the current line - 829 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #82 / 400
Number of attempts: 2

Put the months in order - 974 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 36
Position: #69 / 163
Number of attempts: 10

move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #81 / 142
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #258 / 449
Number of attempts: 11

unknown command - 167 entries

I want change 5 words

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #39 / 87
Number of attempts: 2

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Best score: 23
Best player score: 30
Position: #36 / 70
Number of attempts: 6

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #600 / 1191
Number of attempts: 6

Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 20
Position: #269 / 446
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #2980 / 4189
Number of attempts: 1

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #698 / 1138
Number of attempts: 4

Don't know what this is - 2024 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: 16
Position: #533 / 586
Number of attempts: 4

attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 25
Position: #249 / 703
Number of attempts: 5

quotes inside quotes - 3165 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: #308 / 1079
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 18
Position: #2989 / 3969
Number of attempts: 5

Santa's naughty / nice list - 90 entries

Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 57
Position: #21 / 26
Number of attempts: 3

Array Transposition - 201 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 45
Position: #35 / 56
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2552 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #174 / 757
Number of attempts: 9

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #284 / 778
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2142 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #313 / 665
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #540 / 1749
Number of attempts: 4

Getters & Setters: Java - 211 entries

Boilerplate getters & setters - it's a tedious fact of life in Java, and probably the only thing that still pulls me back to an IDE. Perhaps someone knows a fast, pure vim way...

Best score: 89
Best player score: 119
Position: #30 / 59
Number of attempts: 12

Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1741 / 3739
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7157 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 28
Best player score: 39
Position: #762 / 1755
Number of attempts: 3