Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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

Played Challenges

Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 751 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #152 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 3
Cartesian product - 266 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #67 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 1
Here, piggy, piggy... - 80 entries

Youay owknay atwhay otay oday...

  • Best score: 68
  • Best player score: 99
  • Position: #17 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
The holy-grail may help - 389 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #51 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 486 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: 22
  • Position: #33 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #166 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 512 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #44 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #29 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7230 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #663 / 1779
  • Number of attempts: 6
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