Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33617 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: #1641 / 7421
  • Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #927 / 3864
  • Number of attempts: 12
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2880 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #109 / 851
  • Number of attempts: 7
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #109 / 1162
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3823 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #717 / 865
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2357 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #631 / 753
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 10
  • Position: #196 / 322
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2789 / 4197
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #153 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 10
Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #437 / 2128
  • Number of attempts: 12
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: 12
  • Position: #41 / 672
  • Number of attempts: 4
Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #204 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 1
Delete to the end of the current line - 812 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #296 / 391
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #830 / 4180
  • Number of attempts: 10
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #246 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 7
Words in parens - 12935 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #950 / 3963
  • Number of attempts: 7
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: #565 / 3694
  • Number of attempts: 6
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