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

Data reformat - 321 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 96
  • Position: #58 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 3
xrandr outputs and dashes - 754 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #40 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 5
Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #129 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: 24
  • Position: #3106 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 11
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #588 / 1563
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1489 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #761 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 10
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #1067 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 9
James Elson
Twitter:

Test_Bio

entered into 8 challenges

contributed 0 challenges