Vim Racer

Hi, I just engraved myself in the highscore for the jpeg level with 17 seconds. What a lovely competitive game! I had great fun just "shooting from the gut" (no minmaxing, just did the movements i would do "instinctively" to get to the requested position) I particularly cherish the "show me the moves of leaderboard games" feature which hopefully can serve as an educational resource.

In regards to how the leaderboard is constructed, i noticed some of the top players are at 1 second, which doesn't seem humanly possible to me (that would amount to < 0.05 seconds per move). my assumption is they are using scripted input, which with this interface will be hard to prevent. i read you are still figuring out how to regulate everything, so here's an idea: if you rank the leaderboard by number of keystrokes (might consider special handling for shift etc.) instead of time elapsed, you will get the most efficient leaders instead of the fastest ones - that way scripting wouldn't help cheaters anymore.

All the best moving forward!

This is fantastic!

I wish there was a mode where you minimise the keypresses rather than the speed; that way the best solution is Vim golfing rather than fast hjkl'ing.

Quick bug report: the character '`' appears as "Unsupported" in the leaderboard. This is very visible when following Duff's device using marks.

It's a game you can't stop once you start.

This is super fun, do you know any other vim games like this? I've always wanted to vim (emacs evil mode user) but I'm not exactly fast.

Something is broken on the site. Nothing happens no matter what I try. I've tried in chrome and firefox.

This is really cool, I ran into a bug where I deleted a line that the program would have targeted in a future step which crashed it for me though

It is very useful to be able to see how other did it though leaderboard.

I'd like to play, but the line numbers are following the cursor. Seems like a bug, but am I missing something? I'm not an experienced vim user but I'm normally able to navigate fine (albeit slowly).

(Tried in Chrome and Firefox)

This is fun! Keypress count, and a mode where rather than go faster you have to minimize the number of keypresses, would be fantastic additions.

The game description could clarify what the "target" is.

Terrible game, but it's good at one thing: showing that navigating Vim without Easymotion is racing on foot instead of a race car.

Has the leader board be gamed by any chance [1]?

1st himom 0min 1.001s 490

2nd elmoFOOBAR 0min 1.002s 400

3rd VeryFastTyper 0min 1.003s 708

4th EmacsUser 0min 1.004s 717

5th ShawnT 0min 1.005s 720

6th benbp 0min 1.008s 714

7th hehe 0min 1.023s 604

8th anthony 0min 1.274s 565

9th chris 0min 1.327s 543

10th MasterWq 0min 1.333s 540

11th blake 0min 1.334s 540

12th jbp 0min 1.381s 521

13th test12345 0min 1.437s 20

14th jonmv 0min 1.476s 488

15th spektrokalter 0min 1.577s 457

[1] https://vim-racer.com/#leaderboardAnchor

Maybe i'm missing it, but I think this would be much more useful if it showed what the optimal way to navigate per-target was.

sounds interesting but I don't understand what:"12 Targets (Burn Detector)" Means. What or where are the targets? I got it! Navigate to the yellow flashing square! Is fun but the numbers are relative so I can't type: :4 To go to line 4 which is the intuitive way.

I've had a similar idea on my backburner for two years, as a fun project to dabble in Elixir, but this is just so much more _fun_ than my version which looks like an admin page that just happens to have a Vim canvas on it.

Well done!

This was really fun! I could imagine myself really getting into this, as someone who enjoys Vim motions. It would also be great to see automated replays, based on the inputs in the leaderboard.

Very nice. I would like this for Helix, and allow bringing your own config!

I feel like I found a bug but I'm not sure - when I do <line_number> then Shift +G I don't think the behavior is correct.

Just hit top 30 in all the standard races - thanks so much, this was such a delightful way to practice my new Glove80 :)

:4 does not go to line 4. Or at least, the line numbers are not correct. No thanks, I'll pass.

This is a lot more fun than I would have expected. Nicely done!

I just went through all the "maps," very insightful!

Doing `/searchterm/e` doesn't work.

Quite nice otherwise.

My first solution: wjkljl4j%%%6k$%%G

Certified vim racist

really fun to play! very creative game! thank you :)

This game made me realize that even if I think it's sweet to code with keyboard only, using the mouse is generally faster, especially in this game where there's no back and forth to type something.

However, using the mouse to navigate is flaky here, probably because of how the terminal and decorations are rendered, it lands a character to the right or left when clicking the target.