Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #3905 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1064 / 1282
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1173 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1271 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 3
Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #520 / 636
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 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: #28 / 385
  • Number of attempts: 5
Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #664 / 707
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2882 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #456 / 642
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2376 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #663 / 759
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #532 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1151 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: 12
  • Position: #257 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2534 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 943 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: 22
  • Position: #181 / 221
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1052 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple addition - 332 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #107 / 124
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 176 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #68 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 3
Adam's challenge - 1009 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: #187 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 873 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: 16
  • Position: #203 / 294
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1321 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 2
Hello ${world} - 334 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #67 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #842 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2948 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #670 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2025 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #523 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2249 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3185 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: 14
  • Position: #279 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2404 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1423 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 1
Shebangs for all - 2049 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #330 / 523
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2897 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #943 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 4
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