Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33969 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: #302 / 7502
  • Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #3707 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #64 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 4
comment and uncomment code inline - 1158 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #83 / 329
  • Number of attempts: 5
Adam's challenge - 1018 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #55 / 278
  • Number of attempts: 8
Create a table - 342 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #104 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 884 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #103 / 296
  • Number of attempts: 6
Array transposition - 2472 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #58 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16178 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #611 / 4217
  • Number of attempts: 6
Suffix sort - 287 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #23 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13029 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #442 / 3985
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #324 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 5
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