Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33535 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: 36
  • Position: #6691 / 7397
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4606 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #917 / 1265
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18705 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3324 / 3855
  • Number of attempts: 2
multiple cursor alternative - 1519 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: 49
  • Position: #367 / 380
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #563 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 45
  • Position: #633 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2354 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #685 / 751
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 4952 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #518 / 1615
  • Number of attempts: 6
Number Sort - 314 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #48 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #611 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: 11
  • Position: #222 / 320
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11417 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3545 / 4181
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1834 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #440 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 1
Missing Library and a Typo - 884 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: 21
  • Position: #165 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5643 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #286 / 1261
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 29
  • Position: #256 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 862 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: #114 / 289
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7891 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #373 / 2121
  • Number of attempts: 8
Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #188 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 5
comments galore - 1038 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #389 / 422
  • Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #588 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #392 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15954 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2974 / 4170
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #680 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 13
  • Position: #268 / 582
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2593 / 3678
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 17
  • Position: #912 / 1075
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #894 / 3957
  • Number of attempts: 8
Vertical Limit - 2522 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #676 / 751
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 2979 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #544 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5061 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1213 / 1743
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3568 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #124 / 770
  • Number of attempts: 15
Simple text editing with Vim - 12627 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2476 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6824 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #1260 / 1673
  • Number of attempts: 2
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