Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

Replace markdown sections with numbering - 321 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 164
  • Position: #85 / 89
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1658 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #341 / 357
  • Number of attempts: 2
delete swap - 1912 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #290 / 580
  • Number of attempts: 8
Fix the shell script! - 2681 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #450 / 624
  • Number of attempts: 4
hello-world-vimgolf - 2533 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #646 / 726
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easy modification of ssh config - 406 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #102 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1088 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #564 / 679
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 871 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #404 / 465
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1416 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #401 / 542
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the Haiku - 331 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #114 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #3576 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 2
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