Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

HS exam question - 1610 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 187
  • Position: #406 / 420
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1649 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #261 / 355
  • Number of attempts: 3
Poorly indented Python comments - 1348 entries

Fix the alignment of some Python comments as quickly as possible.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #191 / 224
  • Number of attempts: 5
delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #174 / 570
  • Number of attempts: 2
Fix the shell script! - 2663 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #278 / 619
  • Number of attempts: 3
Visual block training - 1116 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #130 / 208
  • Number of attempts: 8
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1680 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #450 / 564
  • Number of attempts: 6
Making 3 line function a one liner. - 343 entries

Simple challenge for frequent action while programming.

  • Best score: 4
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #191 / 211
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2169 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #293 / 393
  • Number of attempts: 2
HS Final exam vimgolf - 933 entries

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

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #220 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 3
Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #868 / 1117
  • Number of attempts: 2
Satisfy the go linter - 2476 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #430 / 492
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 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: 26
  • Position: #3747 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6380 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #919 / 1557
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #3549 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1371 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #1266 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 1
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