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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: 29
  • Position: #4565 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4806 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #824 / 1894
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #300 / 753
  • Number of attempts: 6
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #641 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1158 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #19 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 16
  • Position: #439 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 1
Two become one - 713 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #170 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #176 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2645 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #270 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 13
  • Position: #393 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 17
  • Position: #814 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3047 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 15
  • Position: #405 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 28
  • Position: #289 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #226 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2139 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #475 / 663
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1349 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make it more readable - 2005 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #460 / 650
  • Number of attempts: 1
Insert a Markdown link - 439 entries

Put a link in a markdown document, using the after-the-paragraph format.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #86 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1932 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #586 / 653
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12822 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2601 / 3698
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7008 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #1154 / 1712
  • Number of attempts: 1
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