Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: #499 / 7454
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4647 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #70 / 1276
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18798 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #45 / 3880
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1169 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1874 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #43 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 3
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #360 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #443 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #342 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #650 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1061 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #105 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #671 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #59 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #191 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 6
Free hyphen! - 176 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #68 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 7
Paragraph breaks - 527 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #95 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 1
comments galore - 1073 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #185 / 429
  • Number of attempts: 5
Align commas - 1097 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #118 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 6
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #106 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap assigned value - 664 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #82 / 258
  • Number of attempts: 8
From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #77 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4312 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #214 / 1193
  • Number of attempts: 7
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #221 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #208 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #411 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #344 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #250 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split the words - 372 entries

Add the spaces manually if you must, but if you use Vim's spell checking feature wisely, I think you'll save a LARGE number of strokes.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #99 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #966 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #249 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3182 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: #236 / 1085
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #690 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 5
Prefixes and suffixes - 637 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #93 / 202
  • Number of attempts: 3
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #400 / 779
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #895 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1547 / 3776
  • Number of attempts: 2
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