Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34018 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: 43
  • Position: #7287 / 7516
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4705 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1223 / 1293
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #3673 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1732 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 3
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #792 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #1160 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 3
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #871 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #1811 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2923 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #271 / 647
  • Number of attempts: 9
Extract argument from function - 2427 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #649 / 772
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #648 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1182 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: 18
  • Position: #308 / 332
  • Number of attempts: 2
Flip the bit - 144 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #62 / 81
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11619 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #3997 / 4257
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #1277 / 1280
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 8020 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #2040 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 2
Change part of a function name in multiple occurrences - 691 entries

Change the middle part of the function name in multiple places, preferably using the next and dot commands.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #198 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 5
Delete to the end of the current line - 882 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #93 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 3
Put the months in order - 1001 entries

Our contractor thought that months should be in alphabetical order. Put them in calendar order please.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 58
  • Position: #150 / 168
  • Number of attempts: 3
move titles next to url, in quotes - 565 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #86 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 5
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #744 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #4200 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #1141 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #3620 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13633 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 66
  • Position: #3860 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 1
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