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 - 1600 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #115 / 335
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change to ascending order - 540 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #33 / 131
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 474 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #31 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate an entry for each month - 387 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 / 97
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 662 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #77 / 152
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 318 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #36 / 120
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorganize Pokémon - 871 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #104 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 1
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 294 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: #59 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 2
New teacher - 1513 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #122 / 318
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4596 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #489 / 1122
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33982 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: #2842 / 7508
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values - 4703 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #648 / 1291
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #453 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18894 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2603 / 3901
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #800 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2929 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #501 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10951 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #767 / 3096
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #874 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3990 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #703 / 909
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #1724 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11611 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3228 / 4252
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5731 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #586 / 1277
  • Number of attempts: 14
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1134 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4333 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #532 / 1197
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16185 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2064 / 4221
  • Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #744 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1615 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3200 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 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1191 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 3050 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #707 / 787
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5120 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #672 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 8
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