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Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33528 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: #3351 / 7396
Number of attempts: 8

Swap values - 4600 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #767 / 1264
Number of attempts: 3

One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #1270 / 3855
Number of attempts: 9

Swap values inside brackets - 2480 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #255 / 575
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4795 entries

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

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #675 / 1891
Number of attempts: 6

Add semicolons - 10841 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #200 / 3058
Number of attempts: 5

Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 32
Position: #605 / 634
Number of attempts: 4

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3573 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #280 / 1157
Number of attempts: 4

Box it - 7897 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #190 / 1872
Number of attempts: 7

Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #406 / 703
Number of attempts: 9

Copy three lines - 2872 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 / 640
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4951 entries

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

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #613 / 1614
Number of attempts: 5

comment and uncomment code inline - 1114 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 / 320
Number of attempts: 8

Just the middle - 11411 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #1282 / 4181
Number of attempts: 3

Team names - 1834 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 19
Position: #457 / 587
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5643 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #187 / 1261
Number of attempts: 19

Adam's challenge - 978 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: #244 / 268
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 - 7888 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1388 / 2119
Number of attempts: 3

One to Ten - 2209 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 / 669
Number of attempts: 5

Delete to the end of the current line - 810 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 / 389
Number of attempts: 3

Array transposition - 2415 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 27
Position: #326 / 446
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #444 / 1190
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 - 15954 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 16
Position: #2678 / 4170
Number of attempts: 6

Don't know what this is - 2014 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 / 582
Number of attempts: 5

Mess in revision history - 1183 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 25
Position: #147 / 249
Number of attempts: 10

quotes inside quotes - 3154 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: #657 / 1075
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #1746 / 3957
Number of attempts: 3

The name of the game - 665 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #250 / 360
Number of attempts: 3

Vertical Limit - 2522 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #80 / 751
Number of attempts: 4

replacing each line of a block selection - 2979 entries

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

Best score: 18
Best player score: 30
Position: #661 / 773
Number of attempts: 2

Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 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 / 273
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #1434 / 1743
Number of attempts: 1

Numbering a List - 1926 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #45 / 650
Number of attempts: 2

Assignment Alignment - 875 entries

line up the operators. Use spaces, not tabs.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #103 / 218
Number of attempts: 2

Shebangs for all - 1961 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 / 506
Number of attempts: 16

Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #44 / 457
Number of attempts: 5

The Cake is a Lie - 1324 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #251 / 521
Number of attempts: 6

Change the content of a string - 1536 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #184 / 576
Number of attempts: 4

Sort and add attributes - 1418 entries

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

Best score: 33
Best player score: 33
Position: #225 / 551
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 12616 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #1786 / 3650
Number of attempts: 3

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6821 entries

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

Best score: 28
Best player score: 43
Position: #1039 / 1671
Number of attempts: 2

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