Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4567 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #684 / 1114
  • Number of attempts: 4
Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #431 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33801 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: #1274 / 7459
  • Number of attempts: 12
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 932 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #156 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4651 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #973 / 1278
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #797 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18811 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1376 / 3883
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2522 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #442 / 586
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4826 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1212 / 1900
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10905 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1915 / 3079
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #380 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3616 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #430 / 1174
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7956 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1034 / 1887
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2922 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #413 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 22
  • Position: #485 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #234 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11523 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2291 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7971 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1271 / 2145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #198 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2240 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #508 / 681
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4312 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #746 / 1193
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16075 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1304 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10703 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2589 / 3696
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12980 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1839 / 3972
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5089 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #983 / 1751
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13183 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1578 / 3789
  • Number of attempts: 2
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