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 - 4486 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #354 / 1100
  • Number of attempts: 6
Yo To Hello - 1130 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #238 / 524
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33647 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: #1555 / 7425
  • Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4810 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1467 / 1896
  • Number of attempts: 2
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2882 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #67 / 852
  • Number of attempts: 6
Add semicolons - 10872 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2498 / 3067
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7909 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #83 / 1878
  • Number of attempts: 4
html paragraph to table - 606 entries

reformat html paragraph to table

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #69 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #35 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15997 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2368 / 4184
  • Number of attempts: 2
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