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 - 4743 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #125 / 1878
  • Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2308 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #104 / 742
  • Number of attempts: 3
That hyphen - 2554 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #37 / 694
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11346 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1524 / 4160
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5584 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #719 / 1257
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 15923 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1454 / 4159
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 997 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #193 / 350
  • Number of attempts: 3
Gray area - 724 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #54 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 1978 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: 11
  • Position: #31 / 578
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10616 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #546 / 3663
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12850 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #465 / 3944
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 12233 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1344 / 3567
  • Number of attempts: 3
Eric Lawless
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Senior UI Engineer at Netflix

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