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 - 34021 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: #192 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 9
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #141 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #473 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1072 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #208 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #82 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 6
Vim's not included features - 266 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #49 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 3
Angular naming conventions - 359 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #4 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 4
Sudoku table - 123 entries

Make this simple sudoku table look nice and legible.

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #15 / 37
  • Number of attempts: 3
Manual SQL - 179 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #24 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #115 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 4
readability - 342 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #64 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the XML - 1052 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #197 / 292
  • Number of attempts: 3
ASCII box - 379 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #51 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 7
Mute the second method of this script - 465 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #101 / 246
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1637 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1053 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #243 / 362
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 765 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #227 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #146 / 310
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2070 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: 14
  • Position: #348 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 4
Two become one - 739 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: 29
  • Position: #78 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 2
Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #161 / 451
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mess in revision history - 1238 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #196 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #835 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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: 14
  • Position: #212 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2294 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2637 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #373 / 778
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #523 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 4
Switch function arguments - 2229 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #419 / 684
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2039 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #296 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shebangs for all - 2103 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #241 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 5
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4054 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #349 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1518 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 2
Árpád Krejczinger
Twitter:

entered into 32 challenges

contributed 0 challenges