Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

Across-Down Flip - 93 entries

Do this instead of the Sunday crossword.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #22 / 29
  • Number of attempts: 1
VimGolfNight - 603 entries

Based on "The name of the game".

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #38 / 356
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3202 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: 17
  • Position: #694 / 1093
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #85 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 5
Delete unwanted lines - 450 entries

Delete all lines which does not end in "o.."

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #61 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 2
Chucking wood - 152 entries

An exercise in compressing repetitive text. For this challenge, any entry that uses keys outside the main row (such as arrow keys, Home, End, Delete, etc.) will be removed. (Esc is OK, though you should be using C-[ anyway.)

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #17 / 54
  • Number of attempts: 2
Calculate the table totals - 169 entries

Go ahead... commit the treachery of using vim as a spreadsheet.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #27 / 48
  • Number of attempts: 2
Java Array2List - 239 entries

Convert an java array initializer into a list.

  • Best score: 67
  • Best player score: 80
  • Position: #15 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 7
Fix the Haiku - 331 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #39 / 116
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7694 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #247 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 5
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