Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ gem install vimgolf
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Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 2513 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #477 / 717
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: #4939 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 944 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #71 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #15 / 1555
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #606 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 8
Quote modules - 1095 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #203 / 286
  • Number of attempts: 7
Aliases for cd - 881 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #71 / 156
  • Number of attempts: 3
Quote modules (ver.2) - 241 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #35 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1319 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 6
Bad Copy Syntax - 2055 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #330 / 536
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3943 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #98 / 893
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #279 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3014 / 4230
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2072 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #70 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1937 / 4202
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1080 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 3
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