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Paste a column after a column - 2555 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #145 / 557
Number of attempts: 8

HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 64
Position: #153 / 417
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat symbols in list - 1625 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #94 / 349
Number of attempts: 11

Poorly indented Python comments - 1316 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #61 / 222
Number of attempts: 13

delete swap - 1788 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #222 / 557
Number of attempts: 3

Generate a very basic Python constructor (fixed) - 1253 entries

Original by @BiddulphCaleb (http://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/6019f1c4642668000cee11e8) - had some extra spaces in output file.

Best score: 29
Best player score: 30
Position: #71 / 271
Number of attempts: 11

Fix the shell script! - 2596 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 36
Position: #359 / 603
Number of attempts: 1

simple replacements - 1793 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 20
Position: #108 / 389
Number of attempts: 7

Python dataclasses - 1187 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #143 / 294
Number of attempts: 6

Python: Def to Lambda - 455 entries

LAMBDA!!!

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #49 / 156
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2437 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #188 / 481
Number of attempts: 8

xrandr outputs and dashes - 716 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #169 / 224
Number of attempts: 9

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: #1188 / 7442
Number of attempts: 11

Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

Best score: 20
Best player score: 21
Position: #101 / 262
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #393 / 1274
Number of attempts: 5

Right Align Part of the line - 133 entries

The challenge is to right align a part of the line - this is useful in some SQL queries where it's more clear which are the fields displayed

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #26 / 42
Number of attempts: 5

Quote modules - 1090 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 22
Position: #79 / 283
Number of attempts: 9

Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1169 / 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: 22
Position: #334 / 530
Number of attempts: 1

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: #195 / 381
Number of attempts: 6

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: 20
Position: #347 / 460
Number of attempts: 2

Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #326 / 1630
Number of attempts: 5

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #36 / 129
Number of attempts: 8

On Being Stylish - 81 entries

Your PR cannot be accepted if you don't follow our corporate style guide.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 46
Position: #16 / 21
Number of attempts: 7

Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 41
Position: #99 / 274
Number of attempts: 2

Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 28
Position: #90 / 133
Number of attempts: 1

Interweave two blocks of text - 661 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #49 / 215
Number of attempts: 7

ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #134 / 267
Number of attempts: 16

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #743 / 2138
Number of attempts: 7

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #136 / 260
Number of attempts: 7

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: #62 / 118
Number of attempts: 8

Hello ${world} - 324 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 25
Position: #42 / 96
Number of attempts: 4

move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #12 / 142
Number of attempts: 7

Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #205 / 449
Number of attempts: 7

Swap assigned value - 655 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #170 / 256
Number of attempts: 8

Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 15
Position: #676 / 1191
Number of attempts: 2

camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #89 / 281
Number of attempts: 3

Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 30
Position: #54 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

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: #49 / 290
Number of attempts: 12

Line 'em up! - 421 entries

It can be so hard to keep everything neatly lined-up. Somebody clearly hasn't bothered here. Tidy it up, please!

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #31 / 114
Number of attempts: 6

Condensed Cases - 804 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #27 / 247
Number of attempts: 4

I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1565 / 4189
Number of attempts: 6

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: 12
Position: #200 / 586
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #2172 / 3689
Number of attempts: 2

attr_aligner - 3522 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 32
Position: #457 / 703
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #141 / 3969
Number of attempts: 2

Execute immediate SQL - 90 entries

Sql string tranformation ...

Best score: 58
Best player score: 70
Position: #13 / 32
Number of attempts: 4

Python: Lots of function arguments - 119 entries

The function definition is too long for one line. The modeline helps you with some typical Python indent settings.

Best score: 6
Best player score: 16
Position: #39 / 50
Number of attempts: 1

Add links to an existing HTML table - 97 entries

Add these links at that top to the respective table cell. First link, first cell, etc.

Best score: 42
Best player score: 43
Position: #10 / 31
Number of attempts: 4

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #223 / 446
Number of attempts: 6

Vertical Limit - 2551 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #34 / 756
Number of attempts: 8

Exchanging Quotes - 858 entries

Sometimes you need to exchange a choice of quotes in some code.

Best score: 30
Best player score: 31
Position: #37 / 230
Number of attempts: 8

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: #61 / 778
Number of attempts: 11

Switch function arguments - 2140 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #74 / 664
Number of attempts: 5

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: 16
Position: #193 / 273
Number of attempts: 1

switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #806 / 1749
Number of attempts: 3

HTML to Haml - 881 entries

Help convert this HTML page to Haml.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 43
Position: #135 / 205
Number of attempts: 1

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 76
Position: #15 / 66
Number of attempts: 6

Change the content of a string - 1593 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 23
Position: #294 / 594
Number of attempts: 7

Simple text editing with Vim - 12983 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #349 / 3736
Number of attempts: 13

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7154 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 32
Position: #74 / 1754
Number of attempts: 14