Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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

Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2662 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #419 / 576
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2523 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #51 / 722
  • Number of attempts: 2
Contribute to keyboard mashing - 903 entries

Speak in tongues

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #167 / 274
  • Number of attempts: 1
Learn to ask for :help - 593 entries

Learn to use the help to reduce your strokes...

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #62 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 1
Lowercase first characters - 499 entries

This is the (abridged) input for Day 3 in Advent of Code 2019. The output is a format more suitable for Prolog programming: the two lines of input become two lists of pairs, joined together in a wires functor.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #15 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inverting Lines - 1952 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #195 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put a cross in the square - 243 entries

Put a cross in the square

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #32 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 3
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