Vim time tracking

How much time do you spend in Vim? Get the WakaTime plugin and track your programming in real-time.

INSTALL THE PLUGIN FOR VIM
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Measure Your Coding

The WakaTime plugin for Vim gives you real-time metrics per project, file, branch, commit, feature, operating system, language, etc.

Gain Insights

Spend more time in JavaScript or Python? Your personal dashboard shows the metrics you care about.

Improve Your Productivity

Compete with your friends on private leaderboards, improve your daily coding average, and check your rank against other WakaTime users.
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Customer Testimonials

I love the insight WakaTime gives me for finding bottle-necks in my projects, I know exactly where my time went down to the file.
TJ Holowaychuk
Creator of Express.js
WakaTime tells our team how much time we are spending working on each feature of a project. The result has been more accurate estimates, and better feedback to designers.
Rob Skidmore
Director of Technology,
Sebo Marketing
You can’t improve what you don't measure. With WakaTime I optimize my throughput each day and improve my productivity. My team loves competing on the leaderboards!
Robert Adams
Head of Engineering,
ZeroCater

Open Source

We value Open Source and make a point to release all our plugins on GitHub under a BSD License.

Install the plugin

Installing with Vundle

  1. Install Vundle for Vim.

  2. From terminal run:

    echo "Plugin 'wakatime/vim-wakatime'" >> ~/.vimrc && vim +PluginInstall

  3. (Re-)start Vim and enter your API key , then press Enter.

  4. Use Vim and your coding activity will be displayed on your WakaTime Dashboard.

Installing with Pathogen

  1. Install Pathogen for Vim.

  2. From terminal run:

    cd ~/.vim/bundle && git clone git://github.com/wakatime/vim-wakatime.git

  3. (Re-)start Vim and enter your API key , then press Enter.

  4. Use Vim like you normally do and your time will be tracked for you automatically.

  5. Visit https://wakatime.com/dashboard to see your coding activity.

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