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

Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #2429 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 12
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #457 / 1563
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1352 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #806 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #776 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #823 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1520 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #632 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1144 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 13
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1626 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #29 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 9
Braces or Brackets? - 1209 entries

Someone forgot whether to use braces or brackets and you have to clean up their code!

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #325 / 365
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 4054 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #195 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 10
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2116 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 14
Shunto J. Kobayashi
Github:

entered into 14 challenges

contributed 0 challenges