Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Changelog, Rules & FAQ, updates: @vimgolf, RSS.

Your VimGolf key: please sign in

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

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: 27
  • Position: #3972 / 7397
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4796 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #652 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #538 / 855
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7897 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #1479 / 1872
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15954 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #871 / 4170
  • Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 12918 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #988 / 3957
  • Number of attempts: 4
TheJoblessGuyTalks
Twitter:

entered into 6 challenges

contributed 0 challenges