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

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1688 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #76 / 567
  • Number of attempts: 5
Java to JavaScript - 302 entries

Let convert some simple Java file to JavaScript!

  • Best score: 59
  • Best player score: 93
  • Position: #50 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 25
  • Position: #3402 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 10
  • Position: #7 / 1563
  • Number of attempts: 4
Quote modules - 1104 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #248 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1878 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #745 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3014 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 2
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