Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 23
  • Position: #2669 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2151 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 868 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #438 / 451
  • Number of attempts: 1
multiple cursor alternative - 1591 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: 27
  • Position: #329 / 388
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #549 / 1674
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2575 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1861 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #22 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1073 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2619 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2273 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1644 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
A simple change - 484 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #125 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1162 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #317 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3067 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #288 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 5
Append semicolon after expressions - 1086 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #244 / 426
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remove semicolons after expressions - 685 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #235 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #532 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort the cardinal numbers - 328 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #46 / 151
  • Number of attempts: 3
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1312 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #181 / 419
  • Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1088 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: #487 / 679
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 706 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #360 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 1
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 532 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #138 / 252
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1108 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #116 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 6
Sort and add attributes - 1591 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #214 / 615
  • Number of attempts: 4
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