Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf setup
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Played Challenges

Move list of uuids into a SQL query - 196 entries

Take the list of UUIDs and use them as a filter in the where statement of a SQL query

  • Best score: 57
  • Best player score: 73
  • Position: #51 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 1
Deleting text - 309 entries

Delete everything except some specific numbers.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #47 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 1
New teacher - 1419 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #137 / 299
  • Number of attempts: 3
Many duplicates - 1465 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #316 / 478
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33866 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: 30
  • Position: #5390 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5027 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #740 / 1637
  • Number of attempts: 8
A Simple One - 1067 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: #584 / 671
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13262 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #726 / 3810
  • Number of attempts: 7
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7389 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #276 / 1825
  • Number of attempts: 11
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