Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: 24
  • Position: #3092 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 5
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1027 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #510 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add string initializers to an enum - 899 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #91 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #444 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 2
Bad Copy Syntax - 2078 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #261 / 540
  • Number of attempts: 10
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #756 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7997 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1107 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #994 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 8
Words in parens - 13024 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3014 / 3983
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13468 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1872 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 6
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