Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Put a cross in the square - 175 entries

Put a cross in the square

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #30 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 1871 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #283 / 346
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4257 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #477 / 1045
  • Number of attempts: 2
Multiline to Single Line - 585 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #91 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33136 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: #3060 / 7308
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #628 / 1247
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #665 / 1493
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18497 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #2275 / 3815
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2793 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #468 / 827
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1634 / 3023
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3483 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #970 / 1128
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1441 / 4144
  • Number of attempts: 2
Back to the roots - 47 entries

Johnny has a file with more integers. He wants to change each number with its square root. Can you help him?

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #30 / 33
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple addition - 301 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #89 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fun With The Diagonal - 99 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #69 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
ASCII Art - 82 entries

how good are you with simple regex?

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #31 / 52
  • Number of attempts: 1
Around the clock - 186 entries

You'll want to use 2 special commands to complete this. If you haven't yet, read through 'input.txt', especially :help simple-changes

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #30 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 3
readability - 310 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #78 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3047 / 4136
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change name of a variable - 168 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #116 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10566 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2824 / 3647
  • Number of attempts: 2
Append semicolon after expressions - 975 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #243 / 394
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4997 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #984 / 1724
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1845 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #53 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 973 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #512 / 633
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 617 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #38 / 390
  • Number of attempts: 1
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