Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Changelog, Rules & FAQ, updates: @vimgolf, RSS.

Your VimGolf key: please sign in

$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2223 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3165 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #760 / 1079
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1283 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 4
Rotating Philosophers Problem - 410 entries

Can you help the philosophers find a good place to sit before they get five forks and spaghetti?

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #107 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #257 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13012 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1182 / 3743
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7172 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #901 / 1760
  • Number of attempts: 1
Anatoliy C.
Twitter:

Javascript writer. Author of opensource projects: CompoundJS (known as RailwayJS), JugglingDB, Roco, http://t.co/ENN22HXJn2.

entered into 7 challenges

contributed 0 challenges