VimGolf - real Vim ninjas count every keystroke!

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quotes inside quotes - 2773 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 :)

Build a six - 204 entries

Just enjoy building "a" floors...

That hyphen - 2178 entries

"vim vi improved"

Extract argument from function - 2000 entries

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

comment and uncomment code inline - 793 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Convert Application Output to CSV - 118 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

Adam's challenge - 771 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Resort and deup a CSV list - 98 entries

I'm always adding items to a sorted list. There has to be a better way dedup and resort the lists. There are multiple lists with varying lengths to discourage manual sorting. Also Australia's animals are weird.

Don't know what this is - 1730 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 285 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

If-then-else regexp - 36 entries

Rules: - golf is never following golf - vim comes first! Drawing a finite-state machine diagram could help. #regexp

replacing each line of a block selection - 2513 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Simple format (2) - 224 entries

try again!

Missing Library and a Typo - 680 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Space out the alphabet - 1363 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 717 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Vertical Limit - 2106 entries

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

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2541 entries

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

Learn some german verbs - 384 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

Order and join - 748 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Saving the hashes(#) - 1740 entries

The following file is copied from vimcasts.org(Its only for learning purpose,hope the site owner doesn't mind it), its probably the easiest of challenges.Our goal is to delete every line which doesn't contain a hash signs. The remaining hash signs with numbers are then sorted to get the final output.

Switch function arguments - 1835 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Align commas - 833 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

comments galore - 904 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Letter case trickery - 1433 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.