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

Word completion - 284 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 101
  • Position: #54 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5087 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1270 / 1657
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1942 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #354 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 3
A Simple One - 1071 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: 13
  • Position: #648 / 674
  • Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3968 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #435 / 848
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2050 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7564 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #1671 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 2
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