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

Poorly indented Python comments - 1316 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #15 / 222
  • Number of attempts: 18
Many duplicates - 1447 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #115 / 470
  • Number of attempts: 3
Visual block training - 1075 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #147 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33715 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: 22
  • Position: #2357 / 7440
  • Number of attempts: 8
abcd > a b c d - 295 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #186 / 225
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #94 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #646 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 7
A Simple One - 1057 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: #523 / 667
  • Number of attempts: 4
Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #77 / 410
  • Number of attempts: 7
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