Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

Changelog, Rules & FAQ, updates: @vimgolf, RSS.

Your VimGolf key: please sign in

$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4602 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #306 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 22
  • Position: #1776 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6395 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #639 / 1562
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3261 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #190 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 2
Cool or not? - 881 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #31 / 237
  • 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: #2852 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 1
ninja substitution - 1439 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #157 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2258 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #110 / 688
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 706 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #26 / 416
  • Number of attempts: 1
Leiser Fernández
Twitter:

Writer of code and tweets.

entered into 10 challenges

contributed 0 challenges