Helix golf competition! 1. Turn a list into an array of strings using as few keystrokes as possible

[David-Else]

Please try and beat my Helix golf solutions! You must end in Normal Mode. Let the games begin!

Game 1

I borrowed the idea from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27473633/how-to-follow-a-vim-golf-solution which contains the original Vim solution. I have not tried to convert it, but rather use Helix functionality. Your cursor starts on the first letter of Hello

Hello
This
Is
Helix

Becomes:

[ "Hello", "This", "Is", "Helix" ]

1. WINNING SOLUTIONS by @gabydd (19 key presses)

%<A-s>ms"<A-,>I<backspace>, <esc>x_ms ms[
%<A-s>ms"(<A-,>a,<esc>Jx_ms ms[

2. Solution 1 (20 key presses):

%<ALT s>ms"a,<ESC>J<ALT ->;ddxms<SPACE>ms[

Game 2

Start with 8x, there is imaginary white-space around the text:

RD 5 Gore 9775
RD 6 Gore 9776
RD 7 Gore 9777
RD 1 Great Barrier Island 0991
RD 1 Greta Valley 7387
RD 1 Greytown 5794
RD 1 Hamilton 3281
RD 2 Hamilton 3282

becomes:

9775
9776
9777
0991
7387
5794
3281
3282

1. Solution 1 (8 key presses):

8x<ALT s>4hT<ENTER>d

2. I also came up with this garbage before I got the above.:

8x<ALT s>s\d{4}<ENTER><ALT ;>hT<ENTER>d

[gabydd]

%<A-s>ms"<A-,>I<backspace>, <esc>x_ms ms[ 19 (working on a different method not sure if it will be less keys)

%_ms ms[<A-s>b_ms"<A-,>I<backspace>, <esc> 20 actually, trying to improve this one (%<A-s>ms"(<A-,>a,<esc>%ms ms[<A-s>J and %ms ms[<A-s>b_ms"<A-,>i<backspace>, <esc>J 19)

Another 19 solution more inline with yours:
%<A-s>ms"(<A-,>a,<esc>Jx_ms ms[

[plul]

No-brainer in 8:

8x<A-s>bhv<home>d

I can't get any of the ones posted above that claims to be under 8 to work. For example, this one chews a digit when I try it: 8x<A-s>bT<return>d.

[aral]

Yeah, I haven’t been able to get it under 8 either:

7Cvglbhd
7CvglF d

[aral]

Ah, got it to 7 :)

7Cv<End>bhd

[gabydd]

Ah 7 and it actually works: %<A-s>_vbhd which also can be 6 if there is no whitespace around cause you don't need the _

[gabydd]

Fun regex 7: %s.+ <return>d

[pascalkuthe]

for the first challange you can get even better:

If the file does not have a trailing newline you can get down to 17:

%<A-s>ms"<A-J>i,<esc>x_ms ms[

If it does this variant needs one more keypress (so 18):

%<A-s>ms"<A--><A-J>i,<esc>x_ms ms[

[gabydd]

Very nice solution, looks like A-J gets seen as J on termux but using the command picker works (I was trying to use the alt version but it wasn't doing anything). Also without a trailing newline I believe this is actually 16 then because there is no need for the _ after the x.

[gabydd]

For no trailing newline another solution would be for 16 %<A-s>ms"%ms ms[<A-J>i,<esc> and that gives us %<A-s>ms"%_ms ms[<A-J>i,<esc> for 17 with the newline

[cd-a]

do we have any more of those? that is really fun

[James-Firth]

I also learned a lot from reading these solutions!

[nightscape]

Here's an article on Medium with a few more:
https://circuit4us.medium.com/play-vimgolf-with-helix-editor-b8c94970fe95

[nik-rev]

Here's a website which showcases more of these examples: https://nikitarevenco.github.io/helix-golf/