Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 913 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #123 / 277
  • Number of attempts: 6
Lowercase first characters - 509 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #158 / 188
  • Number of attempts: 2
Migrated to Postgres! - 349 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #106 / 135
  • Number of attempts: 2
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 347 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #55 / 214
  • Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1439 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #192 / 333
  • Number of attempts: 7
HS Final exam vimgolf - 936 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #151 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 5
Python: Def to Lambda - 492 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #117 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 2
Multiline to Single Line - 765 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #154 / 333
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #341 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34033 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: 29
  • Position: #4922 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18909 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #3602 / 3906
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10958 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2567 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 7
Split line with dots - 2175 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #599 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3375 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3502 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3009 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 2
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