Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #48 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2429 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #83 / 773
  • Number of attempts: 5
Subtraction - 204 entries

Solve the equations.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #33 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 4
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 265 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #110 / 121
  • Number of attempts: 1
Lisp Condense - 485 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #15 / 163
  • Number of attempts: 5
120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #66 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 4
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1208 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #255 / 310
  • Number of attempts: 1
Don't know what this is - 2070 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: 12
  • Position: #167 / 596
  • Number of attempts: 5
Where should I put the Newline? - 912 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #101 / 451
  • Number of attempts: 4
Shuffle puzzle - 379 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #65 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #442 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 6
quotes inside quotes - 3203 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #166 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1405 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1379 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 8
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