Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: #3338 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #907 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values inside brackets - 2546 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #141 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 8
Add semicolons - 10951 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1284 / 3096
  • Number of attempts: 8
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #289 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2911 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #635 / 645
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #207 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 5124 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #532 / 1670
  • Number of attempts: 5
comment and uncomment code inline - 1161 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: #101 / 330
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2725 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make HTML List - 1071 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #173 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #572 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 9
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1842 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 1
Array transposition - 2474 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #409 / 459
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #382 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2275 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1012 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1301 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #925 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 3
abcd > a b c d - 300 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #169 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 1
replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #106 / 787
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #516 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 3
Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 1043 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 82
  • Position: #193 / 198
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make it more readable - 2036 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #188 / 657
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #3108 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 1
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