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Delete to the end of the current line - 811 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Put the months in order - 974 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3583 entries

easy stuff

Python challenge - 172 entries

Change the types of the variables in the list from str to float, while keeping the truncation.

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.

Santa's naughty / nice list - 90 entries

Christmas is here and Santa hasn't decided who's naughty or nice yet. He's given a list of names to his programmer friend to quickly split the children into naughty and nice. Hint: There's a hidden pattern that might be familiar.

My cafe needs a new menu - 31 entries

Help! My cafe needs a new menu and I've only got this plain-text file from the kitchen. In order to get it printed, I need to transform it into a markdown file with; headings for each type of item, prices on each menu item, dietary options and a key down the bottom.

unknown command - 167 entries

I want change 5 words

simple format (3) - 86 entries

reverse two column values!

Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

Applying same text modification in several lines - 2877 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

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/

Com(m)a Trouble - 3815 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Array Transposition - 201 entries

Transpose four arrays into two.

On Being Stylish - 81 entries

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

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

Swap values inside brackets - 2493 entries

Easy challenge.

Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

Number Sort - 314 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Long prime list - filter version - 34 entries

I've used the maximum input/diff/output size allowed by vimgolf to get a list of integers up to 1460 separated by newlines, and your goal is to only keep the lines containing primes. There are 232 of them I hope some of you will golf vimscript itself to create some function to run as a primality check for each line, which is a good exercise if you haven't done much vimscript yet! You're invited to also try copy-pasting and doing other non-smart text manipulation. Even more interesting would be to see a solution that uses text manipulation to do the filtering! Whether you use vimscript, normal-mode primality checks, or text manipulation, as long as the end result is valid, your answer will be valid! Let's see which method does better here. Best of luck!

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.

Splits long lines in more readable ones - 13 entries

Those tests have too long lines. We have to split the to have more readable ones. This is based on a real project with Ruby and RSpec.

Subnetting - 131 entries

Split up the IP addresses in the right way.

Lenny Spiral - 16 entries

Make one lenny into an infinite army of lennys.

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 261 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 49 entries

sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files

Array propagate - 338 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

sort python functions and methods alphabetically - 28 entries

* sort functions in the python file alphabetically * sort functions within a Class alphabetically * sort Classes alphabetically

Back to the roots - 63 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

42-header - 43 entries

Rush 42mexican-standoff at 42 school

TAR archive pretty print - 31 entries

Will you use isk ?

mp3 - Cutlist - 42 entries

An audio CD was accidentally ripped into one single mp3 file. A dummy cue-file now needs to be filled out with the correct values to get single mp3 files.

Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Converting group lines from format A to Format B - 27 entries

Convert from one format to another

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

multiple cursor alternative - 1519 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Flatten repo - 29 entries

For each git repository (<project> tag) translate name attribute to flatten directory structure. Add path attribute if missing (because checkout hierarchy must be kept). #xml