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

V to the i - 4826 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #260 / 1900
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11523 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #391 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12980 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2665 / 3972
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2576 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #311 / 762
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remove noise from HTTP log - 724 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #37 / 275
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5089 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1475 / 1751
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1064 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: #273 / 670
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #240 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 441 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #64 / 143
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #178 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13183 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #993 / 3789
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7309 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #894 / 1805
  • Number of attempts: 3
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