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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: #416 / 7420
Number of attempts: 7

One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #13 / 3864
Number of attempts: 3

V to the i - 4802 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #285 / 1893
Number of attempts: 2

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 20
Position: #608 / 703
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #413 / 1624
Number of attempts: 6

Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #445 / 4197
Number of attempts: 3

Adam's challenge - 984 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: #14 / 270
Number of attempts: 3

JS notation to Immutable.js notation - 186 entries

Now Immutable.js made its way into many frontends. This challenge consists of a typical refactoring that many of us are facing now.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 46
Position: #52 / 63
Number of attempts: 1

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: 12
Position: #55 / 174
Number of attempts: 3

Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #879 / 2128
Number of attempts: 4

comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #45 / 424
Number of attempts: 2

Mirrored text - 177 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #18 / 71
Number of attempts: 5

Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

Best score: 26
Best player score: 27
Position: #60 / 118
Number of attempts: 4

O Christmas Tree - 109 entries

Design a macro that makes trees grow (or ASCII triangles, if that's too hard).

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #8 / 43
Number of attempts: 6

From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #69 / 159
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #698 / 1190
Number of attempts: 3

VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #134 / 347
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #42 / 281
Number of attempts: 5

readability - 327 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #121 / 152
Number of attempts: 1

Fill visual area - 91 entries

Just have fun!

Best score: 20
Best player score: 20
Position: #5 / 38
Number of attempts: 5

I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #274 / 4180
Number of attempts: 4

-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #124 / 1137
Number of attempts: 5

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 17
Position: #308 / 354
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #39 / 300
Number of attempts: 10

Vim tetris - 353 entries

Vim can play tetris too!

Best score: 21
Best player score: 23
Position: #35 / 102
Number of attempts: 3

Split the words - 368 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 36
Position: #55 / 111
Number of attempts: 4

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #815 / 3683
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #460 / 702
Number of attempts: 2

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: 12
Position: #309 / 518
Number of attempts: 2

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: #209 / 1078
Number of attempts: 5

Assign list - 192 entries

Assign list elements to matrix

Best score: 30
Best player score: 49
Position: #39 / 61
Number of attempts: 1

Minimalist Limerick - 520 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #66 / 174
Number of attempts: 1

abcd > a b c d - 291 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #117 / 222
Number of attempts: 2

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #152 / 360
Number of attempts: 4

lamb had a little Mary - 609 entries

"Mary" and "lamb" are swapped. Unswap them. Fast as you can.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 32
Position: #63 / 168
Number of attempts: 6

Stairs Indenting - 473 entries

Indent each line with <line number> whitespaces.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #9 / 197
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #157 / 754
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 2999 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 20
Position: #262 / 777
Number of attempts: 7

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #85 / 273
Number of attempts: 4

un-C-escape string - 58 entries

Convert escape sequences to characters

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #38 / 52
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #878 / 1748
Number of attempts: 4

Shebangs for all - 1999 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: 16
Position: #315 / 516
Number of attempts: 2

Reverse and count - 473 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 24
Position: #75 / 176
Number of attempts: 6

The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #163 / 527
Number of attempts: 2

Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1187 / 3694
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6982 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 42
Position: #965 / 1706
Number of attempts: 2