Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33354 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: #782 / 7358
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18615 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1115 / 3841
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4743 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1228 / 1878
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2554 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #160 / 694
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11346 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2352 / 4160
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract HTML option values from tag values - 98 entries

Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #28 / 42
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interweave two blocks of text - 631 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #196 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 1
Text to HTML Table - 171 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

  • Best score: 52
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #28 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 4
For all cases. - 141 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #36 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 950 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #229 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7778 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1045 / 2095
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vim's not included features - 210 entries

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

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #55 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 798 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #242 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4261 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #309 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15923 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #529 / 4159
  • Number of attempts: 6
Letter case trickery - 1594 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #12 / 511
  • Number of attempts: 6
Vertical Limit - 2436 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #287 / 735
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5028 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #475 / 1734
  • Number of attempts: 3
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