Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Migrated to Postgres! - 324 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #126 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #39 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33483 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: 24
  • Position: #2969 / 7384
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4554 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1130 / 1259
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6254 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1023 / 1530
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18673 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2439 / 3852
  • Number of attempts: 4
Wget failed to download redirections - 185 entries

Output of a wget session, where 302 where not properly handled due to certificate problems, has been saved to a file. Keep the correct URLs to start again downloading.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #57 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4771 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #802 / 1887
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10831 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1073 / 3055
  • Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 2009 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #239 / 518
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11380 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1566 / 4174
  • Number of attempts: 4
Line under headers - 2023 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #383 / 498
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment each number - 995 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #62 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 7
Delete to the end of the current line - 795 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #280 / 387
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15946 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2750 / 4166
  • Number of attempts: 3
Suffix sort - 255 entries

Sort from the end of the line, as if the letters in each line were reversed.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #47 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change name of a variable - 173 entries

Replace the name of the $variable with the fastest move possible. The challenge is having a command that allow you to easily change the variable name even if its indented.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #10 / 136
  • Number of attempts: 1
120 Degrees - 469 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #141 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 3
Comparing scores - 95 entries

If Alice and Bob both did the challenge, put their entries together in the top paragraph, so we can compare their scores more easily.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #16 / 34
  • Number of attempts: 4
Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 235 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #36 / 102
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 1996 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #428 / 581
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10652 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1874 / 3677
  • Number of attempts: 2
Numbering a List - 1869 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #396 / 646
  • Number of attempts: 2
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