Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: #65 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 5115 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #856 / 1667
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add to end of each line... kinda - 344 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #25 / 177
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1149 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #71 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 3
VimGolfNight - 581 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #223 / 353
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 460 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #95 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3233 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #585 / 1143
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2276 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1077 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #412 / 676
  • Number of attempts: 1
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