Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels

nnickandbro about 4 hours ago 16 commentsRead Article on vimgolf.ai

ZH version is available. Content is displayed in original English for accuracy.

Just launched my app, VimGolf.ai! As users complete the levels on the map, I introduce progressively more complicated concepts — it’s aimed at people who have never used Vim. Any feedback would be much appreciated!

⚡ Community Insights

Discussion Sentiment

71% Positive

Analyzed from 299 words in the discussion.

Discussion (16 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

BoxwoodSeed•about 1 hour ago

Uses unholy amounts of CPU making my laptop's fans spin out of control. Editing is very slow, too. Not really a good impression of vim. I'm still going to recommend people to use vimtutor to get used to vim.

nickandbro•about 1 hour ago

Hmm, I’ll look into the CPU processing performance. Maybe it’s the menu animations? And yes vimtutor continues to be a great resource that Braam made. I mainly made this app to gamify learning the vim skills.

VVilhelmsen•about 1 hour ago

https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf

I assume you're not the creator of vimgolf so I'll leave this here for source reference

nickandbro•about 1 hour ago

Vimgolf.com is another great way to learn Vim. I created Vimgolf.ai mainly to challenge users by comparing their score against bot entries.

pluc•about 2 hours ago

I get a Forbidden white screen in the vim "window" and that's that

nickandbro•about 2 hours ago

Thanks for the feedback! What browser are you using? Sometimes the containers also don’t work properly with certain VPNs.

pluc•about 2 hours ago

Could be it, Firefox w/ Mullvad on Linux. Gets a 403 on the second /session call, first one is a 302.

nickandbro•about 1 hour ago

Thank you, investigating this

nylonstrung•about 3 hours ago

Can you add Helix golf support?

nickandbro•about 2 hours ago

I’ll look into it! Definitely worth pursuing

Hugsbox•about 1 hour ago

I've wanted something like this for quite a while. I'm such a "basic" vim user, despite the fact that I'm 20 years into it... I do everything in INSERT mode, like a pleb. These might actually help me start using vim as it was intended to be

nickandbro•about 1 hour ago

Thank you so much for your feedback!

Hugsbox•about 1 hour ago

My only criticism is, could there be a tutorial mode? There's nowhere to actually walk you through any of the steps, the "teaching your cursor to walk" thing doesn't, to my knowledge, actually teach you - you have to figure it out for yourself, it just tells you how much worse you did than the bot.

nickandbro•about 1 hour ago

I’ll look into making it more user intuitive. I tried in a way through the gifs, but I could find other ways to help guide the user more.

NewsaHackO•about 1 hour ago

The amount of free trial subscription slop SaaS software has really gotten out of control. The gall people have to attempt to sell a subscription to something like this is something else.

nickandbro•about 1 hour ago

My app is actually cheaper than vim-adventures or other popular paid Vim learning sites. If you are against using my app, I encourage you to use vimtutor. A great free way to learn Vim.