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 - 1255 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #93 / 266
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change to ascending order - 450 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #30 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 387 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #31 / 144
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate an entry for each month - 351 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: #30 / 84
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 526 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #65 / 120
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 278 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #36 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorganize Pokémon - 696 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #91 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 1
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 239 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: #53 / 91
  • Number of attempts: 2
New teacher - 1423 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #115 / 300
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4572 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #486 / 1116
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 23
  • Position: #2835 / 7474
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values - 4661 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #644 / 1282
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6366 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #453 / 1555
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18831 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2595 / 3889
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4830 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #800 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2915 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #498 / 863
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10916 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #767 / 3085
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3622 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #871 / 1177
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3944 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #694 / 894
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7962 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #1716 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11541 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3222 / 4230
  • 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 - 7974 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1130 / 2146
  • 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 - 16093 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2054 / 4202
  • 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 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1615 / 3700
  • 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 - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1187 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 3007 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #701 / 780
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5094 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #672 / 1754
  • Number of attempts: 8
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