VimGolf - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke!

Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32972 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: #30 / 7278
Number of attempts: 6

prepend * to every non-blank line - 5977 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #583 / 1468
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18395 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 20
Position: #2099 / 3793
Number of attempts: 3

Add semicolons - 10546 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #1851 / 2990
Number of attempts: 1

Split line with dots - 2103 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #173 / 623
Number of attempts: 3

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3454 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #494 / 1121
Number of attempts: 1

Just the middle - 11141 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #1516 / 4114
Number of attempts: 2

Team names - 1780 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #50 / 571
Number of attempts: 3

Make HTML List - 987 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 48
Position: #150 / 261
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7541 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #832 / 2049
Number of attempts: 2

Lower cased and dashed strings - 46 entries

As I have to generate big fixtures files, I wanted to find a way to format input data the way described by start and end files. Especially the lower-cased-and-dashed ids Not so good to find a pure Vim way, that's why I submit this challenge ;)

Best score: 59
Best player score: 93
Position: #14 / 18
Number of attempts: 1

Vim's not included features - 183 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

Best score: 23
Best player score: 33
Position: #37 / 59
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 781 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 12
Position: #136 / 262
Number of attempts: 2

Collect List - 4184 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #51 / 1167
Number of attempts: 4

VimGolfNight - 505 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #172 / 330
Number of attempts: 1

remove all lines in first part - 178 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #49 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15749 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 14
Position: #1429 / 4117
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 962 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #155 / 342
Number of attempts: 1

Change name of a variable - 163 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #82 / 127
Number of attempts: 1

Two become one - 703 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: 34
Position: #129 / 202
Number of attempts: 2

Mess in revision history - 1143 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 18
Position: #76 / 242
Number of attempts: 7

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10538 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #48 / 3638
Number of attempts: 6

attr_aligner - 3402 entries

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

Best score: 19
Best player score: 34
Position: #535 / 685
Number of attempts: 4

Counting in binary - 412 entries

"a" represents 0; "A" represents 1. Start from zero and count to 15.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 48
Position: #92 / 108
Number of attempts: 2

Letter case trickery - 1553 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: 10
Position: #77 / 500
Number of attempts: 9

quotes inside quotes - 3030 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: 14
Position: #93 / 1045
Number of attempts: 5

Words in parens - 12736 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #50 / 3919
Number of attempts: 6

Switch function arguments - 1985 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #241 / 628
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 4945 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #239 / 1708
Number of attempts: 6

Make it more readable - 1905 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #331 / 625
Number of attempts: 2

Generate English Alphabets - 438 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 24
Position: #57 / 194
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1832 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 20
Position: #307 / 627
Number of attempts: 3

Increment, increment, increment.... - 591 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #179 / 378
Number of attempts: 2

Reformat some Python - 565 entries

Fix some very bizarrely laid-out code.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 46
Position: #142 / 223
Number of attempts: 1

Change the content of a string - 1354 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 32
Position: #492 / 522
Number of attempts: 1

Sort and add attributes - 1211 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 47
Position: #481 / 490
Number of attempts: 1

Simple text editing with Vim - 11662 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1015 / 3419
Number of attempts: 6