Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33256 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: 28
  • Position: #4211 / 7337
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4513 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #879 / 1250
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18574 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2667 / 3834
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1248 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 5
Split line with dots - 2117 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #300 / 626
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1461 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #20 / 375
  • Number of attempts: 4
From argument to object - 1451 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: #57 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2877 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #394 / 698
  • Number of attempts: 5
Copy three lines - 2828 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #223 / 632
  • Number of attempts: 6
Extract argument from function - 2292 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #347 / 740
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2538 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #166 / 691
  • Number of attempts: 5
comment and uncomment code inline - 1048 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: #68 / 309
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11331 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2509 / 4156
  • Number of attempts: 3
Todo list specification - 379 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #52 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 367 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #99 / 138
  • Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5521 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #82 / 1251
  • Number of attempts: 12
Simple addition - 304 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #29 / 114
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 837 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #177 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7708 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #313 / 2084
  • Number of attempts: 5
Scrambled numbers - 775 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #26 / 181
  • Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2346 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #79 / 440
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4238 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #648 / 1180
  • Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1610 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #264 / 438
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15890 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #631 / 4152
  • Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #214 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10595 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2211 / 3657
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3429 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #225 / 690
  • Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3105 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: 15
  • Position: #470 / 1066
  • Number of attempts: 5
Flip the chessboard - 77 entries

White's turn is over. Flip the board to black's perspective. I added coordinates to frustrate you.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #21 / 29
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2409 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #64 / 730
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5013 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #484 / 1728
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 256 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #86 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12045 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1575 / 3528
  • Number of attempts: 1
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