Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

Changing around text with citations - 197 entries

Based off of something I saw on reddit

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #13 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 11
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1343 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #26 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 22
Swap values - 4500 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #354 / 1247
  • Number of attempts: 12
Add semicolons - 10720 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #746 / 3023
  • Number of attempts: 7
From argument to object - 1441 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #159 / 441
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11289 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1497 / 4144
  • Number of attempts: 5
Stairstep digits - 366 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #121 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 7
Delete unwanted lines - 390 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #189 / 223
  • Number of attempts: 9
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