Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1556 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 1
Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #720 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2624 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #692 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3120 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #911 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1037 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #296 / 359
  • Number of attempts: 2
Gray area - 757 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #262 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 5
Don't know what this is - 2048 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: #473 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13034 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2871 / 3988
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13576 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 44
  • Position: #3745 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 4
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