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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33722 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: #1904 / 7442
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #287 / 1274
Number of attempts: 4

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #799 / 3870
Number of attempts: 5

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 195 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #24 / 102
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #51 / 583
Number of attempts: 5

V to the i - 4813 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #674 / 1897
Number of attempts: 2

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: #186 / 856
Number of attempts: 5

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #14 / 259
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: #5 / 251
Number of attempts: 5

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1033 / 3072
Number of attempts: 3

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: #106 / 530
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #663 / 1169
Number of attempts: 1

Extract wireshark capture filter - 216 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

Best score: 25
Best player score: 26
Position: #19 / 72
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #186 / 1881
Number of attempts: 5

Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #46 / 230
Number of attempts: 4

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #43 / 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: #136 / 641
Number of attempts: 7

Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 23
Position: #17 / 119
Number of attempts: 4

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #612 / 1630
Number of attempts: 3

Flip the bit - 129 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #25 / 74
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11483 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1280 / 4209
Number of attempts: 2

Todo list specification - 399 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #73 / 179
Number of attempts: 3

Combines all items - 313 entries

For each line that starts with the same number I want to combine its contents

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #72 / 140
Number of attempts: 3

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #45 / 267
Number of attempts: 5

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #490 / 2138
Number of attempts: 4

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: #170 / 677
Number of attempts: 4

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: #44 / 208
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: 27
Position: #98 / 507
Number of attempts: 4

Build a six - 294 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #48 / 95
Number of attempts: 1

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 5
Position: #109 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

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: #32 / 78
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: #17 / 91
Number of attempts: 1

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #17 / 449
Number of attempts: 6

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: #72 / 227
Number of attempts: 4

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #442 / 1191
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #917 / 4189
Number of attempts: 8

Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #116 / 271
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: 14
Position: #374 / 586
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #58 / 250
Number of attempts: 4

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: #326 / 1079
Number of attempts: 3

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1026 / 3969
Number of attempts: 3

Resort and deup a CSV list - 170 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Best score: 44
Best player score: 44
Position: #11 / 44
Number of attempts: 3

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #124 / 446
Number of attempts: 2

calculations - 312 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 38
Position: #5 / 68
Number of attempts: 7

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: #288 / 778
Number of attempts: 3

Switch function arguments - 2140 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #169 / 664
Number of attempts: 2

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #567 / 1749
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 2018 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: 11
Position: #54 / 519
Number of attempts: 4

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: #1803 / 3737
Number of attempts: 1

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: #665 / 1754
Number of attempts: 3