Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

YAML to dotenv - 1476 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #107 / 301
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change to ascending order - 487 entries

Change each line of numbers consistently from descending to ascending order.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #31 / 120
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 426 entries

Turn this spreadsheet output into a CSV file but first swap the columns

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #31 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate an entry for each month - 369 entries

The input file contains a URI with a month in it. Generate the URIs for all the other months up to a couple of years

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #33 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 586 entries

This is the reverse of the previous challenge: https://www.vimgolf.com/challenges/9v006705493c000000000513

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #72 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 290 entries

Change the class fields in this Scala class from snake case to camel case

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #36 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorganize Pokémon - 776 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #96 / 215
  • Number of attempts: 1
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 256 entries

Tsoding's famous "Can your Vim do that?" https://youtu.be/Bafo3hhheHU?si=DfcT4sUEMTSAevnx&t=1091

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 46
  • Position: #55 / 100
  • Number of attempts: 2
New teacher - 1465 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #117 / 306
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #487 / 1117
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33930 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: 23
  • Position: #2839 / 7490
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values - 4670 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #645 / 1285
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 10
  • Position: #453 / 1557
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2597 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4833 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #800 / 1904
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2920 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #499 / 864
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10923 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #767 / 3087
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3631 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #872 / 1179
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3968 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #698 / 901
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7987 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #1720 / 1895
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3224 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #584 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 14
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1131 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4317 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #532 / 1194
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2058 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #740 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10721 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1615 / 3704
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3185 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #368 / 1086
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1188 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 3026 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #704 / 783
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5101 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #672 / 1756
  • Number of attempts: 8
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