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

Swap assigned value - 626 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #24 / 250
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12858 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1229 / 3946
  • Number of attempts: 4
Word frequency alignment - 276 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #3 / 158
  • Number of attempts: 1
Enumerate words - 250 entries

Enumerate the unique words in order.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #55 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 1
Prefixes and suffixes - 593 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #73 / 193
  • Number of attempts: 2
abcd > a b c d - 280 entries

transform the single spaces into 4 spaces repeat for each line

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #57 / 218
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1001 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #303 / 643
  • Number of attempts: 1
Compile C - 365 entries

You might have to get clever to do this one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #84 / 132
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1332 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #132 / 531
  • Number of attempts: 4
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3340 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #348 / 737
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12290 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #989 / 3581
  • Number of attempts: 2
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