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: 32
  • Position: #5817 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3318 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #869 / 1675
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2184 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1696 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #185 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2886 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #629 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2330 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #899 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #1051 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ian Malerich
Twitter:

entered into 10 challenges

contributed 0 challenges