Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: #816 / 7420
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4616 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #170 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #184 / 3864
  • Number of attempts: 8
Split line with dots - 2144 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #116 / 634
  • Number of attempts: 7
From argument to object - 1508 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #31 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 6
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #198 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 9
  • Position: #45 / 322
  • Number of attempts: 4
Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #848 / 4197
  • Number of attempts: 3
Text to HTML Table - 180 entries

Turn the plain text table to an HTML table.

  • Best score: 52
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #9 / 53
  • Number of attempts: 3
For all cases. - 161 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #37 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 2
Stairstep digits - 394 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #22 / 145
  • Number of attempts: 3
Acute accents - 33 entries

Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #17 / 25
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #73 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 12
Simple addition - 326 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #11 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 4
Adam's challenge - 984 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #32 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 8
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #10 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 4
Nesting SASS - 266 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #76 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #290 / 2128
  • Number of attempts: 7
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #310 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 8
Condensed Cases - 804 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: #48 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #593 / 4180
  • Number of attempts: 9
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1142 / 3683
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #792 / 3963
  • Number of attempts: 8
Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #484 / 3694
  • Number of attempts: 12
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