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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: #1386 / 7420
Number of attempts: 17

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #890 / 3864
Number of attempts: 13

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #575 / 1893
Number of attempts: 5

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: #335 / 851
Number of attempts: 5

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: 19
Position: #6 / 101
Number of attempts: 7

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #140 / 634
Number of attempts: 7

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 14
Position: #1021 / 1162
Number of attempts: 3

Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 19
Position: #620 / 865
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #1056 / 1876
Number of attempts: 9

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: 17
Position: #100 / 458
Number of attempts: 5

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #230 / 703
Number of attempts: 8

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: 13
Position: #100 / 640
Number of attempts: 10

Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #14 / 119
Number of attempts: 6

Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #204 / 753
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: #520 / 1624
Number of attempts: 3

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #181 / 701
Number of attempts: 8

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: #98 / 322
Number of attempts: 8

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2683 / 4197
Number of attempts: 7

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 21
Position: #513 / 588
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 261 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #94 / 141
Number of attempts: 2

Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 21
Position: #926 / 1264
Number of attempts: 12

Create a table - 332 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #31 / 105
Number of attempts: 15

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #377 / 2128
Number of attempts: 8

comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #250 / 424
Number of attempts: 7

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: 15
Position: #126 / 246
Number of attempts: 11

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: 35
Position: #20 / 46
Number of attempts: 4

One to Ten - 2219 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: 38
Position: #670 / 672
Number of attempts: 1

Build a six - 294 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 31
Position: #83 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2417 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #124 / 448
Number of attempts: 20

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #379 / 1190
Number of attempts: 7

Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #117 / 444
Number of attempts: 16

Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #52 / 290
Number of attempts: 10

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #2243 / 4180
Number of attempts: 10

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #238 / 1137
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1280 / 3683
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #145 / 702
Number of attempts: 19

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: 9
Position: #21 / 518
Number of attempts: 15

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: #295 / 1078
Number of attempts: 9

Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2466 / 3963
Number of attempts: 3

Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #56 / 480
Number of attempts: 14

Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #154 / 663
Number of attempts: 10

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1009 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Position: #102 / 193
Number of attempts: 15

Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #306 / 650
Number of attempts: 6

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: #476 / 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: #336 / 458
Number of attempts: 2

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3665 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #128 / 787
Number of attempts: 13

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 50
Position: #1389 / 1706
Number of attempts: 2