Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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

Played Challenges

Deleting text - 341 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #10 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 8
Rural Post - 4595 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #205 / 1121
  • Number of attempts: 9
Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 860 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 99
  • Position: #445 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sort and add attributes - 1572 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #281 / 610
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1722 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #157 / 453
  • Number of attempts: 13
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3985 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #43 / 852
  • Number of attempts: 13
Flodder-challenge - 1483 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #265 / 375
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13526 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #714 / 3879
  • Number of attempts: 8
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