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 - 33940 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: #908 / 7494
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4679 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #164 / 1287
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18861 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #220 / 3895
  • Number of attempts: 8
Every other line - 2934 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #195 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11562 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #896 / 4235
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #6 / 278
  • 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: #69 / 296
  • Number of attempts: 3
Nesting SASS - 296 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #53 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #279 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16155 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #576 / 4212
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10724 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1129 / 3705
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13013 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #788 / 3980
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 13441 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #477 / 3855
  • Number of attempts: 5

Contributed Challenges

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.

ЯRicardo
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IT, Laravelian, catophile, vimmer, learning and teaching something new every day :wq

entered into 13 challenges

contributed 1 challenges