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

Many duplicates - 1252 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #53 / 411
  • Number of attempts: 7
2 quick changes and a numbered list - 599 entries

The ascii will not be lost, but rather numbered in 4 digit blocks with leading zeros.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #33 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 6
delete swap - 1522 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #29 / 476
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the shell script! - 2338 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #130 / 540
  • Number of attempts: 8
hello-world-vimgolf - 2348 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #189 / 664
  • Number of attempts: 7
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 839 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #35 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 10
swap number pairs - 2011 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #40 / 370
  • Number of attempts: 25
Rural Post - 4362 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #445 / 1071
  • Number of attempts: 10
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