Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 1987 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 218
  • Position: #566 / 566
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33142 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: 49
  • Position: #7210 / 7309
  • Number of attempts: 2
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 649 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 213
  • Position: #374 / 374
  • Number of attempts: 1
NATO phonetic alphabet - 492 entries

Transform the series of words into a list.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #187 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 433 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 114
  • Position: #184 / 186
  • Number of attempts: 1
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1053 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 47
  • Position: #430 / 431
  • Number of attempts: 1
Remove semicolons after expressions - 584 entries

A follow-up for http://vimgolf.com/challenges/4fc9d767d3a0d4000100000e.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #247 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 4997 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 77
  • Position: #1721 / 1724
  • Number of attempts: 1
Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1202 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #393 / 394
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 617 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 92
  • Position: #388 / 390
  • Number of attempts: 2
Context Insensitive completion 1 - 444 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 78
  • Position: #228 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 1
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