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: #1200 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #596 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2456 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4860 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1709 / 1910
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2909 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #324 / 644
  • Number of attempts: 1
Start coding format - 159 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #67 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: #78 / 330
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11590 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1036 / 4246
  • Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1858 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #349 / 594
  • Number of attempts: 2
Todo list specification - 409 entries

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

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #144 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 277 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #67 / 147
  • 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: 18
  • Position: #139 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #676 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 1
Gray area - 754 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #182 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 1
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 148 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #52 / 59
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2611 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2429 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 2
NATO phonetic alphabet - 547 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #196 / 199
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3041 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #409 / 786
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse characters in a line - 819 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #215 / 276
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 14
  • Position: #1673 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 1
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