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: 24
  • Position: #2995 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #216 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #396 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1295 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 21
  • Position: #219 / 388
  • Number of attempts: 3
From argument to object - 1566 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: #83 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2951 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #5 / 712
  • Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2923 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #467 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #199 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #511 / 1674
  • Number of attempts: 4
comment and uncomment code inline - 1182 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: #88 / 332
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1065 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 3
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 279 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #24 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5733 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #100 / 1279
  • Number of attempts: 11
Adam's challenge - 1042 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: 18
  • Position: #58 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 7
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 886 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: 13
  • Position: #107 / 297
  • Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 8019 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #352 / 2157
  • Number of attempts: 8
Order and join - 1032 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #49 / 265
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4341 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #354 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 4
Space out the alphabet - 1692 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #83 / 456
  • Number of attempts: 8
increment by column in XML - 167 entries

modify an arbitrary "column" in an xml table by incrementing a an arbitrary placeholder string

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #726 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #225 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1241 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #878 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #500 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #517 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 7
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