VimGolf - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke!

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

Rural Post - 4290 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #58 / 1052
Number of attempts: 7

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33236 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: #961 / 7330
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18559 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #244 / 3830
Number of attempts: 11

Separate the lines - 173 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #20 / 88
Number of attempts: 1

Palindrome numbers - 21 entries

For each number compute its associated palindrome. First number (first line) has been eaten! #prime

Best score: 30
Best player score: 34
Position: #11 / 14
Number of attempts: 1

multiple cursor alternative - 1460 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #198 / 374
Number of attempts: 2

From argument to object - 1450 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #6 / 444
Number of attempts: 13

Extract HTML option values from tag values - 90 entries

Generate HTML option values from the text in the option tag. If the text contains multiple words, replace the spaces with an underscore and convert all capital letters to small letters.

Best score: 34
Best player score: 36
Position: #12 / 40
Number of attempts: 3

Todo list specification - 376 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #26 / 172
Number of attempts: 3

Text to HTML Table - 157 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

Best score: 52
Best player score: 52
Position: #7 / 46
Number of attempts: 9

For all cases. - 135 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #20 / 97
Number of attempts: 1

Stairstep digits - 366 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #5 / 137
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 838 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #25 / 206
Number of attempts: 3

Hidden Message - 74 entries

Find the hidden message and replace all other characters with spaces.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 38
Position: #15 / 28
Number of attempts: 2

Interactive git rebase changing commands - 160 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #20 / 76
Number of attempts: 4

create arrows in a list - 99 entries

Add arrow at same distance

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #19 / 68
Number of attempts: 1

Create a table - 324 entries

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #12 / 103
Number of attempts: 5

Fun With The Diagonal - 99 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #47 / 76
Number of attempts: 1

Double and switch - 37 entries

Aaaanother case switcher

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #7 / 17
Number of attempts: 5

ascii-art diamond - 35 entries

Simple ascii-art diamond. The grid is 40x40.

Best score: 40
Best player score: 56
Position: #14 / 15
Number of attempts: 1

Hello ${world} - 298 entries

Migrate a JavaScript String from concatenation to ES6 interpolation.

Best score: 24
Best player score: 24
Position: #9 / 93
Number of attempts: 8

Array transposition - 2345 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 18
Position: #171 / 439
Number of attempts: 4

120 Degrees - 457 entries

Rotate that triangle.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 33
Position: #131 / 142
Number of attempts: 1

Winding path - 93 entries

It's a maze, but the bad paths have been blocked off. Mark the correct path.

Best score: 27
Best player score: 51
Position: #23 / 40
Number of attempts: 4

Words in parens - 12821 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #104 / 3938
Number of attempts: 9

Vertical Limit - 2406 entries

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

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #62 / 728
Number of attempts: 7

replacing each line of a block selection - 2907 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #296 / 760
Number of attempts: 6

constructor - 178 entries

coding a constructor for a simple class

Best score: 59
Best player score: 100
Position: #33 / 57
Number of attempts: 4

switch variable - 5012 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #19 / 1728
Number of attempts: 9

Ugly spreadsheet copy/paste to CSV - 953 entries

convert an ugly spreadsheet copy/paste into a CSV format.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #34 / 184
Number of attempts: 7

Replacing some words - 418 entries

How fast could it be?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #4 / 147
Number of attempts: 6

Make it more readable - 1930 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #4 / 636
Number of attempts: 5

remove dupes from array - 1324 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #25 / 328
Number of attempts: 12

imports alignment (python) - 657 entries

Align as one import per line.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #26 / 194
Number of attempts: 11

Numbering a List - 1849 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #210 / 636
Number of attempts: 7

A Simple One - 978 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: #350 / 636
Number of attempts: 1

Make Fancy Header - 996 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #75 / 335
Number of attempts: 6

Simple text editing with Vim - 11970 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #53 / 3505
Number of attempts: 5

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6338 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

Best score: 32
Best player score: 32
Position: #71 / 1562
Number of attempts: 15

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