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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: 22
Position: #1871 / 7442
Number of attempts: 3

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #281 / 1274
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #792 / 3870
Number of attempts: 7

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #45 / 583
Number of attempts: 6

Unsemantic linewrapping - 928 entries

[Inspired by a blog post I read: https://scott.mn/2014/02/21/semantic_linewrapping/. Text adapted.] Sometimes when editing a Markdown file, I wrap the lines semantically. Instead of inserting a newline at 70 columns (or whatever), or making paragraphs one long line, I put in newlines at a point that seems logical to me. This may seem silly, but it produces better diffs. Semantic linewrapping also makes editing snappier. I can delete, edit or insert sentences easily using linewise operations. Code-oriented text editors like Vim and [REDACTED] are really good at this kind of manipulation. Editing text that hasn't been wrapped semantically is a pain, though:

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #3 / 231
Number of attempts: 2

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1396 / 1897
Number of attempts: 1

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2893 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #174 / 856
Number of attempts: 5

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 323 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #12 / 71
Number of attempts: 5

SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1216 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #29 / 251
Number of attempts: 10

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #132 / 3072
Number of attempts: 4

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #84 / 530
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #250 / 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: 12
Position: #57 / 876
Number of attempts: 5

Extract wireshark capture filter - 216 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #17 / 72
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #160 / 1881
Number of attempts: 7

Tables, Functions, Sprocs - 135 entries

In order to load some scripts into my database in the correct order I need to load tables first (t_), then functions (fn_), then stored procedures (sp_). The order of the t_ lines and the order of the sp_ lines should also match. Reorder the lines so they will load correctly.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #13 / 47
Number of attempts: 5

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #41 / 230
Number of attempts: 6

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: 20
Position: #171 / 381
Number of attempts: 7

html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

Best score: 48
Best player score: 49
Position: #27 / 126
Number of attempts: 8

From argument to object - 1513 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: #119 / 460
Number of attempts: 3

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #32 / 178
Number of attempts: 9

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #41 / 704
Number of attempts: 9

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: 13
Position: #129 / 641
Number of attempts: 11

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: 13
Position: #234 / 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: #602 / 1630
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #265 / 701
Number of attempts: 5

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: 9
Position: #123 / 323
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #2894 / 4209
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #236 / 589
Number of attempts: 5

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: #89 / 214
Number of attempts: 6

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #179 / 1269
Number of attempts: 10

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: 18
Position: #84 / 271
Number of attempts: 6

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #40 / 267
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #482 / 2138
Number of attempts: 16

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: #149 / 677
Number of attempts: 2

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: 14
Position: #38 / 208
Number of attempts: 4

Reformat Cura settings - 132 entries

Cura settings are weirdly encoded... After mere replacements, you'll have to enquote two strings (infill_pattern & speed_travel) and dont forget booleans in lowercase. #format #json

Best score: 50
Best player score: 75
Position: #20 / 24
Number of attempts: 3

Line under headers - 2059 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 31
Position: #296 / 507
Number of attempts: 2

Build a six - 294 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #46 / 95
Number of attempts: 3

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #32 / 249
Number of attempts: 6

Around the clock - 199 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #22 / 77
Number of attempts: 3

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #95 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

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: #160 / 400
Number of attempts: 2

Song Transcription Oops - 243 entries

When transcribing vocal music to Canjo Tab you can start by finding the lowest note and assigning that to zero and working your way up from there. However, without fail, I tend to miscount the notes and when I am near done I find a lower note. I mark this with a "z". This means I have to increase all the previous ones by 1. just a sting of numbers :)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #21 / 78
Number of attempts: 4

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #39 / 161
Number of attempts: 2

Remove quotes after first field - 380 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #12 / 91
Number of attempts: 9

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: 23
Position: #31 / 163
Number of attempts: 18

Reorder the groups - 1182 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #36 / 265
Number of attempts: 11

move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #56 / 142
Number of attempts: 5

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #15 / 449
Number of attempts: 18

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: #68 / 227
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #436 / 1191
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #900 / 4189
Number of attempts: 6

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #391 / 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: 11
Position: #117 / 586
Number of attempts: 5

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1409 / 3689
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #155 / 703
Number of attempts: 11

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: #323 / 1079
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1747 / 3969
Number of attempts: 2

ASCII-art Histogram - 320 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #4 / 57
Number of attempts: 11

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #115 / 778
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #960 / 1749
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 12989 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1785 / 3737
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7154 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 38
Position: #663 / 1754
Number of attempts: 10