Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf setup
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Played Challenges

Cartesian product - 257 entries

{1,2,3,4,5} X {1,2,3,4,5}

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #37 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 2
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1249 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2 / 407
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reverse and count - 480 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #139 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #145 / 410
  • Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 506 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #26 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7091 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #495 / 1737
  • Number of attempts: 3
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