Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4485 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #671 / 1099
  • Number of attempts: 4
Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #423 / 524
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: #1274 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 12
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #156 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4622 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #970 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6318 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #792 / 1539
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1372 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 6
Swap values inside brackets - 2496 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #436 / 579
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4809 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1209 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10867 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1907 / 3065
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #379 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3590 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #430 / 1163
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7906 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1027 / 1877
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #411 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 2
Copy three lines - 2872 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #485 / 640
  • Number of attempts: 1
comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 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.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #228 / 322
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11458 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2286 / 4199
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7910 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1264 / 2129
  • Number of attempts: 1
Order and join - 983 entries

There's something special about the input order.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #197 / 259
  • Number of attempts: 4
One to Ten - 2219 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #503 / 672
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #745 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15990 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1300 / 4182
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2579 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1833 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #981 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12823 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1564 / 3699
  • Number of attempts: 2
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