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

Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #513 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #59 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 3
delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #26 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #962 / 1117
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33930 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: 29
  • Position: #5005 / 7490
  • Number of attempts: 8
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 948 entries

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

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #192 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1417 / 1557
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #3548 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 1
Aliases for cd - 908 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #136 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2626 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1854 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #539 / 593
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1137 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 556 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #159 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 3
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