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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: 30
Position: #5306 / 7442
Number of attempts: 1

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #776 / 1274
Number of attempts: 2

One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 22
Position: #2765 / 3870
Number of attempts: 4

citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 195 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 6
Position: #36 / 102
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: #1418 / 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: 14
Position: #428 / 856
Number of attempts: 3

Add string initializers to an enum - 873 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 27
Position: #181 / 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: 43
Position: #232 / 251
Number of attempts: 1

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #2130 / 3072
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #391 / 530
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 23
Position: #496 / 635
Number of attempts: 2

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 18
Position: #1127 / 1169
Number of attempts: 2

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: #495 / 876
Number of attempts: 2

Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #697 / 1881
Number of attempts: 4

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: 22
Position: #236 / 381
Number of attempts: 2

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: 18
Position: #255 / 460
Number of attempts: 2

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 749 entries

Clean and group.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 22
Position: #124 / 178
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #408 / 704
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: #621 / 1630
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #540 / 701
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1309 / 4209
Number of attempts: 7

Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #245 / 589
Number of attempts: 3

Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 23
Position: #1074 / 1269
Number of attempts: 6

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #966 / 2138
Number of attempts: 2

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: #210 / 677
Number of attempts: 5

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: #49 / 208
Number of attempts: 2

Line under headers - 2059 entries

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

Best score: 24
Best player score: 32
Position: #321 / 507
Number of attempts: 5

Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

Best score: 15
Best player score: 21
Position: #172 / 249
Number of attempts: 2

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: #187 / 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: #41 / 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: #63 / 161
Number of attempts: 2

move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #90 / 142
Number of attempts: 4

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: 31
Position: #144 / 227
Number of attempts: 1

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 25
Position: #143 / 159
Number of attempts: 1

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #867 / 1191
Number of attempts: 3

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #194 / 281
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1902 / 4189
Number of attempts: 8

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #720 / 1138
Number of attempts: 2

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #209 / 437
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #1447 / 3689
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: 15
Position: #495 / 1079
Number of attempts: 2

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #2499 / 3969
Number of attempts: 4

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: 76
Position: #46 / 57
Number of attempts: 3

calculations - 312 entries

Complete these (weird) calculations.

Best score: 38
Best player score: 64
Position: #60 / 68
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #581 / 1749
Number of attempts: 2

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: 19
Position: #122 / 336
Number of attempts: 3

Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #350 / 460
Number of attempts: 1