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

One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3150 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1397 / 1643
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the XML - 1039 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #248 / 290
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3185 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1003 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #900 / 1756
  • Number of attempts: 4
Kir Shatrov
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Site Reliability, Databases, Rails, and Kubernetes. Engineering Lead at @Shopify. @evilmartians alumni. he/him. 🇨🇦 🇬🇧

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