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

Many duplicates - 1481 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #123 / 481
  • Number of attempts: 5
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1685 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #263 / 566
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wikitext headings to markdown - 1029 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #86 / 213
  • Number of attempts: 4
hello-world-vimgolf - 2531 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #663 / 725
  • Number of attempts: 3
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 905 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #136 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1919 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1000 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1330 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 3
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