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 - 2669 entries

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

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #251 / 579
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 2692 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #105 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 12
hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #246 / 726
  • Number of attempts: 5
Migrated to Postgres! - 349 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #34 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 4
Inverting Lines - 1962 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #182 / 527
  • Number of attempts: 12
swap number pairs - 2173 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #208 / 394
  • Number of attempts: 15
One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #3796 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 3
attr_aligner - 3568 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #177 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1183 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reverse and count - 502 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #163 / 182
  • Number of attempts: 1
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