Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4596 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #1053 / 1122
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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
  • Position: #333 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1384 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1055 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10951 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1101 / 3096
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #973 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1632 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 7
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1525 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 2
Paragraph sort - 456 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #114 / 126
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 830 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #145 / 270
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #887 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 1
Space out the alphabet - 1691 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #222 / 455
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2130 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1056 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 1
It'ss tooo coold too typpe todaay - 237 entries

My hands are numb with cold. It's hard to type correctly.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #67 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 1
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