Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33591 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: #4253 / 7410
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values - 4610 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #891 / 1267
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18711 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2685 / 3858
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4798 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1255 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 5
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #301 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 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 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 4
From argument to object - 1504 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 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #397 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 5
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #225 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 6
Extract argument from function - 2355 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #353 / 752
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #166 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 5
comment and uncomment code inline - 1118 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 / 321
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11424 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2517 / 4186
  • Number of attempts: 3
Todo list specification - 399 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 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 392 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #100 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5645 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #82 / 1263
  • Number of attempts: 12
Simple addition - 324 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 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 863 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: #179 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #313 / 2125
  • Number of attempts: 5
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #26 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 7
Array transposition - 2416 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #81 / 447
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #655 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #267 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15974 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #631 / 4175
  • Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #214 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10657 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2223 / 3679
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3498 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #229 / 696
  • Number of attempts: 5
quotes inside quotes - 3157 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: #476 / 1076
  • Number of attempts: 5
Flip the chessboard - 95 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: #23 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2538 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #64 / 754
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5068 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #484 / 1747
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate Fibonacci Numbers - 280 entries

Use your super vim powers to generate Fibonacci Numbers.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #89 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12712 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1608 / 3671
  • Number of attempts: 1
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