Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #511 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 4
Satisfy the go linter - 2487 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #348 / 496
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1049 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #136 / 332
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1156 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #139 / 537
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1161 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #129 / 235
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #2183 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1071 / 1563
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2581 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1500 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #809 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #950 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3342 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 3
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