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 - 33236 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: 38
  • Position: #6829 / 7330
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1874 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 997 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #249 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add to end of each line... kinda - 316 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #166 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #399 / 414
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4228 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 72
  • Position: #1176 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the XML - 962 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #278 / 280
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1048 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3424 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5012 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1623 / 1728
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

comments galore - 982 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Theodore DeRego
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contributed 1 challenges