Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

RUST Cargo.toml version to last - 355 entries

RUST Cargo.toml version to last. rusty practice on vimgolf

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #4 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 3
swap number pairs - 2105 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #14 / 382
  • Number of attempts: 13
Rural Post - 4492 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #105 / 1103
  • Number of attempts: 7
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33677 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: #2314 / 7431
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values - 4635 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #279 / 1271
  • Number of attempts: 7
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6323 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #378 / 1542
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #722 / 3869
  • Number of attempts: 8
Add semicolons - 10876 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #107 / 3069
  • Number of attempts: 5
Bad Copy Syntax - 2040 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #67 / 527
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7911 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #415 / 1879
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11473 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3152 / 4205
  • Number of attempts: 3
change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #27 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16007 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #893 / 4186
  • Number of attempts: 10
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