Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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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: 27
  • Position: #3808 / 7330
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #706 / 1250
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18559 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1696 / 3830
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1251 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 1
Split line with dots - 2113 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #451 / 625
  • Number of attempts: 1
From argument to object - 1450 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #182 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2530 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #520 / 690
  • Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1042 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: 13
  • Position: #261 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11318 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2436 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 1
Adam's challenge - 932 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: 22
  • Position: #170 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remove hard line breaks - 64 entries

Text files with Hard breaks are not good for e-readers. We need remove all hard line breaks and have long lines.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #24 / 30
  • Number of attempts: 1
Square numbers - 99 entries

Boring math puzzle.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #30 / 40
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15880 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2550 / 4146
  • Number of attempts: 1
abcd > a b c d - 279 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #162 / 217
  • Number of attempts: 2
Checkerboard case pattern - 144 entries

All the squares are white. Make some of them black. But only the right ones.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #40 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 498 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #98 / 189
  • Number of attempts: 3
Create a pandoc compatible table - 177 entries

In [this vimcast][1], a featured gist from Tim Pope shows how to quickly make a simple table structure. How fast can you convert it to pandoc's markdown style? [1]: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/aligning-text-with-tabular-vim/

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #41 / 51
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Vim - 398 entries

Someone has vandalized this text file and replaced the beginning character of one word in each line with a Big "X." Please remove the big X's, and fix each line to read "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog."

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #167 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 978 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #452 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 824 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #326 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 3
PEP8 Python Wrapping Comments and Code - 174 entries

According to PEP8, long flowy text and code should have different max line lengths. Code: 79 characters max Long flowy text: 72 characters max

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #52 / 63
  • Number of attempts: 2
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