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Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

months to html list items - 1130 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #115 / 306
Number of attempts: 7

EDN reformat - 1209 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 34
Position: #131 / 170
Number of attempts: 4

Find fix point of cos - 1468 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #220 / 431
Number of attempts: 3

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: 23
Position: #386 / 576
Number of attempts: 4

Tabbed Table to Python Array - 769 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

Best score: 50
Best player score: 86
Position: #165 / 184
Number of attempts: 2

HS exam question - 1610 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 127
Position: #385 / 420
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1834 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #319 / 570
Number of attempts: 10

Fix the shell script! - 2663 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 38
Position: #397 / 619
Number of attempts: 4

simple replacements - 1861 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 42
Position: #387 / 399
Number of attempts: 3

Inverting Lines - 1952 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #437 / 522
Number of attempts: 6

Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #674 / 1117
Number of attempts: 1

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: 37
Position: #442 / 492
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1154 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #498 / 535
Number of attempts: 2

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1158 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 40
Position: #199 / 234
Number of attempts: 4

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: 20
Position: #1326 / 1557
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2072 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 60
Position: #527 / 539
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2379 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #721 / 760
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2602 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 19
Position: #676 / 704
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3203 / 4234
Number of attempts: 5

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1011 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 44
Position: #260 / 387
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 1010 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #253 / 277
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1454 / 2147
Number of attempts: 4

Order and join - 992 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #145 / 261
Number of attempts: 8

Join 'em - 254 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #23 / 153
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 397 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 58
Position: #85 / 88
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #738 / 1140
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #135 / 354
Number of attempts: 4

Where should I put the Newline? - 885 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #221 / 439
Number of attempts: 4

Mess in revision history - 1210 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 73
Position: #252 / 254
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1620 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #129 / 450
Number of attempts: 10

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1138 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #142 / 450
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #554 / 783
Number of attempts: 13

Append semicolon after expressions - 1061 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #395 / 421
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 577 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #321 / 364
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1361 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #261 / 338
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1941 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #278 / 657
Number of attempts: 4

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 194
Position: #61 / 66
Number of attempts: 9

Shebangs for all - 2062 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 20
Position: #431 / 525
Number of attempts: 4

Make Fancy Header - 1079 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #313 / 351
Number of attempts: 6

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3949 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #353 / 841
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 40
Position: #3675 / 3846
Number of attempts: 2

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