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

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: 30
  • Position: #5148 / 7454
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4647 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #887 / 1276
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18799 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #3492 / 3881
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1806 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 1
Every other line - 2922 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #662 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1372 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2475 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #222 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2200 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 883 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #435 / 438
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #3306 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2937 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1130 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #436 / 448
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2315 / 3776
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7258 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #1524 / 1790
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

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entered into 15 challenges

contributed 1 challenges