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

Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #65 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 6
Change name of a variable - 197 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #31 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 1
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #12 / 310
  • Number of attempts: 11
Don't know what this is - 2070 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: 11
  • Position: #5 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 4
Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #82 / 451
  • Number of attempts: 4
Mess in revision history - 1238 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #23 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 8
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #406 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 27
attr_aligner - 3568 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #70 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 14
quotes inside quotes - 3203 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #160 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #3851 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 13
  • Position: #288 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 5
Siddhanathan S.
Twitter:

entered into 11 challenges

contributed 0 challenges