Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

Many duplicates - 1489 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #332 / 484
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the shell script! - 2681 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #242 / 624
  • Number of attempts: 8
Visual block training - 1118 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #153 / 209
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #574 / 726
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #708 / 1675
  • Number of attempts: 5
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 329 entries

Take them down. (sorry, only 82 bottles because the problem size is limited!)

  • Best score: 106
  • Best player score: 173
  • Position: #133 / 149
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse characters in a line - 845 entries

You have everything you need, just not in the right order. Mastermind would give you 26 white pegs.

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #236 / 283
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1803 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #350 / 656
  • Number of attempts: 5
Sort and add attributes - 1598 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #405 / 617
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1754 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #337 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 15
Simple text editing with Vim - 13645 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #680 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 5
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