Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

YAML to dotenv - 876 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #64 / 195
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change to ascending order - 338 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #23 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 295 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #29 / 110
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate an entry for each month - 229 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: #23 / 64
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 448 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #57 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 230 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #36 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorganize Pokémon - 579 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #83 / 157
  • Number of attempts: 1
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 176 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: #41 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 2
New teacher - 1357 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #111 / 282
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4563 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #486 / 1113
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: #2827 / 7450
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values - 4644 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #644 / 1275
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #453 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18780 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2589 / 3877
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #800 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2900 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #497 / 859
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10889 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #767 / 3076
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #867 / 1172
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3890 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #683 / 882
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7939 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #1711 / 1885
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11497 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3218 / 4215
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #581 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 14
Vice versa - 7967 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1130 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #532 / 1192
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2051 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #739 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1615 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3182 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 / 1085
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1184 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #700 / 779
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #672 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 8
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