Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 1986 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #368 / 565
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inverting Lines - 1565 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #19 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 2
Modernise code - 1103 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #92 / 261
  • Number of attempts: 4
swap number pairs - 1874 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #131 / 347
  • Number of attempts: 2
HS Final exam vimgolf - 815 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #95 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4257 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #407 / 1045
  • Number of attempts: 4
Multiline to Single Line - 585 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #112 / 260
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33142 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: 23
  • Position: #2774 / 7309
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6120 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #703 / 1493
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18498 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1536 / 3816
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1714 / 3023
  • Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 7650 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1841 / 2073
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15852 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2012 / 4136
  • Number of attempts: 1
Alphabet soup - 402 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #77 / 98
  • Number of attempts: 1
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