Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: 27
  • Position: #3929 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #403 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 2
Separate the lines - 182 entries

Every other line is mixed up. Separate them into their original texts.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #40 / 92
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #18 / 583
  • Number of attempts: 6
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2893 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #103 / 856
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1296 / 3072
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #101 / 1169
  • Number of attempts: 4
From argument to object - 1513 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: 22
  • Position: #395 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #554 / 1630
  • Number of attempts: 5
Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 540 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/

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #77 / 129
  • Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1124 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: 12
  • Position: #255 / 323
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3545 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 2
Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #208 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 5
Todo list specification - 399 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

  • Best score: 37
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #69 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 3
Interactive git rebase changing commands - 172 entries

How to change the action of some commits in git rebase dialog.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #52 / 79
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2227 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: 12
  • Position: #27 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 2
Delete to the end of the current line - 829 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #74 / 400
  • Number of attempts: 1
move titles next to url, in quotes - 537 entries

had trouble with something similar

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #125 / 142
  • Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #55 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 6
unknown command - 167 entries

I want change 5 words

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #37 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #909 / 4189
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #997 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10682 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3163 / 3689
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2725 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 2
Remove noise from HTTP log - 717 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #194 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12989 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #521 / 3737
  • Number of attempts: 2
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