Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: #3460 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #854 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #689 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #842 / 1674
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1809 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 1
JSON string rotation - 86 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: #25 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 1
readability - 341 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #101 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 3
vim1001 - 327 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: #107 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #770 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1052 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #334 / 361
  • Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 264 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #107 / 120
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change name of a variable - 196 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 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 2
Lisp Condense - 484 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #126 / 162
  • 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 - 162 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: 28
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #48 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 3
Comparing scores - 148 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: #30 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 3
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1207 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #256 / 309
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2067 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: #458 / 595
  • 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? - 911 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #308 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shuffle puzzle - 377 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: #65 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #3278 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1686 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: #480 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 2
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 369 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: #69 / 110
  • 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 - 450 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #227 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 1
Circle in a square - 193 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: #49 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #678 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #390 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1380 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2934 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7681 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #677 / 1889
  • Number of attempts: 3

Contributed Challenges

Refactor static member invocation - 233 entries

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

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