Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

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

Played Challenges

Innocent Monster - 217 entries

You have the tools, just create him!

  • Best score: 60
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #11 / 49
  • Number of attempts: 5
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1660 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #64 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 4
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 890 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #6 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 290 entries

Who even sorted this?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #26 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 8
Solve anagram with ASCII letters - 54 entries

ASCII created by TOIlet command

  • Best score: 46
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #9 / 18
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #129 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 4
swap number pairs - 2115 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #342 / 384
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4515 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #66 / 1106
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33722 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: 24
  • Position: #3106 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6337 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #361 / 1546
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1998 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 5
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #680 / 3072
  • Number of attempts: 8
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #793 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 6
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