Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Modernise code - 364 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 44
  • Number of attempts: 2
HS Final exam vimgolf - 418 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Number of attempts: 8
Yo To Hello - 833 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 5702 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Number of attempts: 10
Line under headers - 1851 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 35
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10286 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7592 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 31
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3410 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Number of attempts: 1
Swap values inside brackets - 2397 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2769 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 13
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18189 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32648 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11070 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15627 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3077 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12674 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Number of attempts: 1
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