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 - 1637 entries

Convert this YAML config file to a .env file.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #119 / 342
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change to ascending order - 549 entries

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

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #34 / 134
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap columns and transform to CSV format - 494 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #31 / 177
  • Number of attempts: 4
Generate an entry for each month - 397 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: #34 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change class fields from camel case to snake case - 669 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #78 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 5
Change class fields from snake case to camel case - 325 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #36 / 122
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reorganize Pokémon - 880 entries

Change the format of the each line and sort alphabetically.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #104 / 242
  • Number of attempts: 1
CaN yOuR ViM dO ThAt? #1 - 297 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 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 2
New teacher - 1527 entries

Update the details of the new CS teacher.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #122 / 319
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4602 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #489 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 34021 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: #2845 / 7517
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values - 4707 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #649 / 1294
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6397 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #453 / 1563
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18903 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #2604 / 3904
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #800 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 4
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2931 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #501 / 867
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10956 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #767 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 8
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3652 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #874 / 1185
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #704 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 8003 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #1725 / 1901
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11620 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3228 / 4258
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5737 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #589 / 1281
  • Number of attempts: 14
Vice versa - 8021 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1136 / 2158
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4342 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #532 / 1200
  • Number of attempts: 7
I forgot quotes - 16239 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2067 / 4225
  • Number of attempts: 9
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #744 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10758 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1615 / 3717
  • Number of attempts: 3
quotes inside quotes - 3203 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 / 1094
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1192 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 4
replacing each line of a block selection - 3068 entries

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

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #709 / 789
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5128 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #672 / 1764
  • Number of attempts: 8
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