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

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1688 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #96 / 567
  • Number of attempts: 6
Wikitext headings to markdown - 1039 entries

Convert the wikitext headings to markdown.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #169 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 4
hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #140 / 726
  • Number of attempts: 6
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 913 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #26 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 308 entries

Who even sorted this?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #32 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 7
Solve anagram with ASCII letters - 63 entries

ASCII created by TOIlet command

  • Best score: 46
  • Best player score: 155
  • Position: #17 / 19
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fill in the chess board - 980 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #87 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 4
Learn to ask for :help - 596 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #73 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 6
Transpose a python matrix - 907 entries

Rotate the matrix in 90 degrees.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #101 / 141
  • Number of attempts: 4
Create a diamond comment - 360 entries

Encapsulate the text in a diamond pattern.

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 145
  • Position: #70 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 1
Justin Haaheim
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Software engineer at @Meta working on @lexicaljs. Life & leadership coach. @ThrivingChange co-founder. Pianist and drummer.

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