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 - 1472 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #329 / 480
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fix the shell script! - 2663 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #240 / 619
  • Number of attempts: 8
Visual block training - 1116 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #152 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2523 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #571 / 722
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5042 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #708 / 1643
  • Number of attempts: 5
82 bottles of beer on the wall - 313 entries

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

  • Best score: 106
  • Best player score: 173
  • Position: #131 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse characters in a line - 806 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #228 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 3
Change the content of a string - 1750 entries

This docstring is a complete lie. Fix it.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #343 / 639
  • Number of attempts: 5
Sort and add attributes - 1557 entries

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

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #396 / 601
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1697 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: #330 / 445
  • Number of attempts: 15
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 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 / 3846
  • Number of attempts: 5
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