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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: 25
Position: #3380 / 7474
Number of attempts: 8

Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #772 / 1282
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1276 / 3889
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values inside brackets - 2523 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #260 / 587
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4830 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #675 / 1903
Number of attempts: 6

Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #200 / 3085
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2156 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #607 / 636
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #280 / 1177
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #190 / 1891
Number of attempts: 7

Every other line - 2925 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #408 / 707
Number of attempts: 9

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: 19
Position: #386 / 642
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #613 / 1637
Number of attempts: 5

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: 9
Position: #125 / 328
Number of attempts: 8

Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1282 / 4230
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #459 / 592
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #187 / 1273
Number of attempts: 19

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: 26
Position: #251 / 276
Number of attempts: 1

Wrap text in quotes - 368 entries

All the blocks of text should be wrapped in quotation marks.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #41 / 122
Number of attempts: 8

Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1398 / 2146
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2241 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: #174 / 682
Number of attempts: 5

Delete to the end of the current line - 855 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #172 / 411
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2436 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #328 / 452
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #444 / 1194
Number of attempts: 4

Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 8
Best player score: 9
Position: #135 / 239
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2696 / 4202
Number of attempts: 6

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: 12
Position: #229 / 587
Number of attempts: 5

Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #148 / 254
Number of attempts: 10

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: 16
Position: #660 / 1086
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1755 / 3977
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 678 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #250 / 363
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2596 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #80 / 767
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #665 / 780
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 729 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #131 / 276
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1442 / 1754
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1940 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #45 / 656
Number of attempts: 2

Assignment Alignment - 885 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #103 / 221
Number of attempts: 2

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: 11
Position: #55 / 523
Number of attempts: 16

Reverse Simple Deletion - 862 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #44 / 463
Number of attempts: 5

The Cake is a Lie - 1386 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #251 / 537
Number of attempts: 6

Change the content of a string - 1707 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #184 / 628
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1539 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #225 / 594
Number of attempts: 3

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: 14
Position: #1818 / 3810
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 43
Position: #1091 / 1825
Number of attempts: 2

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