Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

Tic-Tac-Toe Grid Transformation - 449 entries

Your mission is to efficiently convert the original Tic-Tac-Toe grid, represented by 'x's and 'o's, into a neat and well-organized game board.

  • Best score: 56
  • Best player score: 118
  • Position: #48 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 3
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 769 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 74
  • Position: #155 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 4
delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #313 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33930 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: 27
  • Position: #3997 / 7490
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #938 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #16 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 5
snowflake fractal - 58 entries

From step 0 to step 3 of a fractal

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 189
  • Position: #20 / 21
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13427 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2848 / 3849
  • Number of attempts: 1
Svet PENKOV
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Creator of @efemarai. Working on neuro-symbolic AI methods. PhD in AI & Robotics.

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