Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

Changelog, Rules & FAQ, updates: @vimgolf, RSS.

Your VimGolf key: please sign in

$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Changing date formats - 749 entries

Change the date format to Y/M/D.

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 70
  • Position: #89 / 210
  • Number of attempts: 3
Word completion - 310 entries

Try to complete these options within 20 keystrokes.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 101
  • Position: #58 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34012 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: 35
  • Position: #6722 / 7513
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #183 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1745 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: 25
  • Position: #378 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3063 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 3
Kelvin Newton
Github:

entered into 6 challenges

contributed 0 challenges