Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33969 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: 22
  • Position: #1641 / 7502
  • Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #935 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 12
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2927 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #111 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 7
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #109 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #753 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2397 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #642 / 766
  • Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1158 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: 10
  • Position: #201 / 329
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11582 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2800 / 4243
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #153 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 10
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #437 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 12
One to Ten - 2247 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: #41 / 685
  • Number of attempts: 4
Increment each number - 1062 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #209 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 865 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #315 / 415
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16178 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #830 / 4217
  • Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #246 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 13029 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #961 / 3985
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 13521 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #565 / 3877
  • Number of attempts: 6
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