Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

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

Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1680 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #53 / 564
  • Number of attempts: 6
Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #610 / 1117
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: 23
  • Position: #2694 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 9
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #406 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #254 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 7
Sort yaml structures alphabetically by root key names - 62 entries

sometimes we want to sort structures alphabetically in yaml files

  • Best score: 31
  • Best player score: 76
  • Position: #21 / 22
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 274 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #88 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 2
Join 'em - 254 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #98 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 5
change parenthesis - 301 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #41 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3009 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 4
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