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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: #911 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6318 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #239 / 1539
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4806 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #946 / 1894
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #413 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11458 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1547 / 4199
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5662 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #626 / 1265
  • Number of attempts: 4
VimGolfNight - 560 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #159 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 1
ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #104 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15990 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3099 / 4182
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #58 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2022 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: #320 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1937 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1330 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 5
Hole-in-one - 1018 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #58 / 304
  • Number of attempts: 4
Saving the hashes(#) - 2063 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #349 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1118 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #270 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #24 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 4
The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #219 / 363
  • Number of attempts: 1
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