Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33964 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: #661 / 7500
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1109 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4853 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #893 / 1909
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2945 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #313 / 710
  • Number of attempts: 3
Start coding format - 159 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #51 / 73
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11572 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1794 / 4240
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #383 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 7
Sort files from hosts - 202 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #39 / 78
  • Number of attempts: 3
camel riding - 796 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #98 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 5
readability - 331 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #34 / 153
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove all lines in first part - 223 entries

From the second part, remove all lines in the first part. It can be useful when you have done something from a long list, you want to know what is not done yet!

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #17 / 68
  • Number of attempts: 4
Shuffled numbers - 254 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #52 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1560 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #465 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #119 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10748 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1754 / 3711
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13028 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3415 / 3984
  • Number of attempts: 1
Word frequency alignment - 296 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #104 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 2
XML to JSON - 47 entries

Convert this xml file into json.

  • Best score: 75
  • Best player score: 93
  • Position: #7 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5110 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #817 / 1758
  • Number of attempts: 2
Refactor to Helpers - 50 entries

This Rails partial is almost all template escapes. Put it into a helper, and refactor each case to methods so we can build out the controls for each. (I've converted to tabs - fighting with Vimgolf's default config shouldn't be part of the challenge.)

  • Best score: 147
  • Best player score: 325
  • Position: #16 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 703 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #295 / 414
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

Sort files from hosts - 202 entries

Resume files by host. I hope you enjoy with this challenge

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