Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

Changelog, Rules & FAQ, updates: @vimgolf, RSS.

Your VimGolf key: please sign in

$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Rural Post - 3546 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
Satisfy the go linter - 1463 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: 40
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 343 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 32
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 829 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 866 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 71
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5675 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 28
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10213 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 28
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7573 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 38
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18173 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32602 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: 25
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11062 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15604 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
gchain
Twitter:

entered into 12 challenges

contributed 0 challenges