Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

Contribute to keyboard mashing - 898 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2 / 272
  • Number of attempts: 4
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 340 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 4
  • Position: #7 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 1
Modernise code - 1410 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #4 / 326
  • Number of attempts: 4
swap number pairs - 2128 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #12 / 388
  • Number of attempts: 16
HS Final exam vimgolf - 912 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #51 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 4
Rural Post - 4567 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #80 / 1114
  • Number of attempts: 3
Satisfy the go linter - 2450 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: 20
  • Position: #83 / 485
  • Number of attempts: 5
Yo To Hello - 1151 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #283 / 533
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33787 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: #2302 / 7454
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #367 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18798 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #715 / 3880
  • Number of attempts: 9
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #689 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #466 / 1173
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3907 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #137 / 886
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #551 / 1886
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1451 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #580 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 8
Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #240 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1094 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 7
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1566 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1148 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 4
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