Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33972 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: 26
  • Position: #3457 / 7505
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4861 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #853 / 1911
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #685 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #840 / 1670
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1809 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 1
JSON string rotation - 77 entries

Right value strings are misplaced. Just rotate them! I'm too kind with you guys and didn't included "strings with \" in it"!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #23 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
readability - 332 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #101 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 3
vim1001 - 315 entries

change number 1001 into a "vim1001 sequence". (My first challenge, hope it is not too bad... )

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #106 / 111
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #769 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1035 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #331 / 358
  • Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 262 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #106 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change name of a variable - 183 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: #64 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lisp Condense - 472 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #124 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 3
120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #133 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 3
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 148 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #46 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 3
Comparing scores - 129 entries

If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #29 / 36
  • Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1185 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #253 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2044 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: #454 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 2
Two become one - 736 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: #175 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 898 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #306 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 361 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #63 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #3274 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1664 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: 17
  • Position: #478 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 360 entries

"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #68 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hole-in-one - 1040 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: 21
  • Position: #218 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete unwanted lines - 441 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #226 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 1
Circle in a square - 180 entries

Probably looks more like "Egg in a rectangle" in most fonts, but it's actually 23x23.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 76
  • Position: #48 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vertical Limit - 2634 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #676 / 776
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #389 / 787
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1378 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13564 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2923 / 3887
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7630 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #673 / 1880
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Refactor static member invocation - 211 entries

Someone used a static method. Refactor the method into a static import while fixing the assertion.

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