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 - 4572 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #237 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 4
Satisfy the go linter - 2468 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: 25
  • Position: #264 / 491
  • Number of attempts: 2
Multiline to Single Line - 747 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #28 / 318
  • Number of attempts: 1
Data reformat - 304 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 97
  • Position: #58 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 725 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #158 / 226
  • Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 783 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #84 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1152 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #30 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1151 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: 40
  • Position: #189 / 233
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33842 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: #2181 / 7468
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6362 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #170 / 1553
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18826 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1322 / 3887
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7961 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #763 / 1890
  • Number of attempts: 3
Edgar Domingues
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