Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Changelog, Rules & FAQ, updates: @vimgolf, RSS.

Your VimGolf key: please sign in

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

Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: #297 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4833 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1613 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1009 / 1643
  • Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #437 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1823 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #398 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 11
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1208 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1074 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #327 / 430
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 438 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #95 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #130 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #711 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 2
camel riding - 793 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #221 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1276 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #576 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10720 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #751 / 3703
  • Number of attempts: 4
Letter case trickery - 1644 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: 11
  • Position: #272 / 520
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3185 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #454 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1521 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 2
Saving the hashes(#) - 2067 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #201 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #395 / 783
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #867 / 1756
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1472 / 3846
  • Number of attempts: 3
Lindsay Swift
Twitter:

entered into 22 challenges

contributed 0 challenges