Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33100 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: #2011 / 7301
  • Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18480 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #581 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 7
V to the i - 4650 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #120 / 1863
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10716 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #316 / 3022
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7725 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #238 / 1844
  • Number of attempts: 8
Extract argument from function - 2267 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #7 / 736
  • Number of attempts: 2
That hyphen - 2522 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #218 / 689
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11283 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #15 / 4140
  • Number of attempts: 4
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 247 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #35 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7629 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #514 / 2069
  • Number of attempts: 3
Condensed Cases - 773 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #8 / 238
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #962 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 7
Two become one - 706 entries

We have two c arrays and want to make one two dimensional out of it. Can we do that?

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #79 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 3
Piphilology - 125 entries

Piphilology comprises the creation and use of mnemonic techniques to remember a span of digits of the mathematical constant π. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #19 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 3
Mess in revision history - 1151 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #112 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10564 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #225 / 3646
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3403 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #438 / 686
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sort the VimGolf challenges by popularity - 340 entries

"Sort by popularity" is a good order to play the challenges. Not perfect, but you could do a lot worse. ;) Input is a sample copy-pasted from vimgolf.com. Some of the challenge names have digits that will get in your way, so read ":help :sort" for hints on sorting with a regex. When you're done, try your solution on the full list!

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #56 / 103
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #319 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 4996 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #583 / 1723
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 11865 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1211 / 3472
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6225 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #1041 / 1533
  • Number of attempts: 1
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