Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

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

Played Challenges

Innocent Monster - 164 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

  • Best score: 60
  • Best player score: 93
  • Position: #29 / 47
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1574 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #248 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33379 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: 27
  • Position: #3920 / 7363
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11360 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3409 / 4164
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7797 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #661 / 2099
  • Number of attempts: 9
Where should I put the Newline? - 863 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #63 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12854 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2599 / 3945
  • Number of attempts: 5
Hole-in-one - 1012 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: 34
  • Position: #300 / 302
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6557 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 73
  • Position: #1554 / 1614
  • Number of attempts: 2
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