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

delete swap - 1815 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #476 / 566
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1668 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #243 / 561
  • Number of attempts: 10
hello-world-vimgolf - 2510 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #311 / 716
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33843 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: #5011 / 7469
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3941 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #171 / 892
  • Number of attempts: 9
Just the middle - 11534 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1505 / 4227
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5699 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #508 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1670 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 89
  • Position: #432 / 439
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13245 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1995 / 3804
  • Number of attempts: 9
Kory Newton
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