Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1668 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #330 / 561
  • Number of attempts: 2
hello-world-vimgolf - 2510 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #389 / 716
  • Number of attempts: 2
Modernise code - 1420 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #144 / 328
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4572 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #394 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33843 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: #3424 / 7469
  • Number of attempts: 7
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 944 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #144 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 3
Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #139 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6365 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1178 / 1554
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18830 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #835 / 3888
  • Number of attempts: 8
Quote modules - 1095 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #167 / 286
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #452 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10913 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1662 / 3083
  • Number of attempts: 3
Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #421 / 536
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1004 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3941 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #582 / 892
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7961 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #406 / 1890
  • Number of attempts: 9
Just the middle - 11534 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3038 / 4227
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1852 / 2146
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2241 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #502 / 682
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2072 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #412 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16089 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3074 / 4200
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10712 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2624 / 3699
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12991 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2516 / 3976
  • Number of attempts: 2

Contributed Challenges

Making 3 line function a one liner. - 340 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

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