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

Replace markdown sections with numbering - 287 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 110
  • Position: #62 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 1
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 278 entries

Change the class fields in this Scala class from snake case to camel case

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #77 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 3
hello-world-vimgolf - 2513 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #622 / 717
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4572 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #805 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: 54
  • Position: #7413 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #793 / 1282
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #3833 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #4164 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #618 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 3
Delete to the end of the current line - 855 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #400 / 411
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3583 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 1
learn vim in short time - 242 entries

so happy to learn vim.because vim is awesome

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #159 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2025 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #541 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3182 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 1
SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1620 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #440 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 2
Switch function arguments - 2182 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #651 / 674
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make it more readable - 2009 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #545 / 652
  • Number of attempts: 1
Numbering a List - 1940 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #645 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 1
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