Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: #1033 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 4
From argument to object - 1552 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: 17
  • Position: #51 / 469
  • Number of attempts: 4
comment and uncomment code inline - 1161 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: 9
  • Position: #65 / 330
  • Number of attempts: 2
Missing Library and a Typo - 952 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #61 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #79 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 2
Adam's challenge - 1018 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: 19
  • Position: #117 / 278
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #787 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add Go XML to structure tags - 195 entries

The Go programming language can directly map XML to structure fields. Add the correct XML tag after each field.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #12 / 75
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #324 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #362 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1619 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #493 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 4
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