Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put 596ba8373e3dd71412000004

Create a table

Convert the given input into a formatted table

Start file

Item name            Quantity
Eggs                        2
Cucumber                   20
Watermelons                 1

End file

Item name   | Quantity
----------------------
Eggs        |        2
Cucumber    |       20
Watermelons |        1

View Diff

1,4c1,5
< Item name            Quantity
< Eggs                        2
< Cucumber                   20
< Watermelons                 1
---
> Item name   | Quantity
> ----------------------
> Eggs        |        2
> Cucumber    |       20
> Watermelons |        1

Solutions

The best way to learn is to practice. Below, you will find some of the solutions other golfers have entered. To unlock higher ranked solutions, submit your own entry which does as well or better than the solutions you can currently see - climb the ladder!

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95 active golfers, 291 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#1 - Urtica dioica / @udioica

07/16/2017 at 08:43PM

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#2 - Smylers / @Smylers2

07/16/2017 at 09:33PM

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#3 - John Braxler / @braxler

07/17/2017 at 01:01PM

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#4 - Dan Simmons / @simmons_dan

07/17/2017 at 02:59PM

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#5 - Juan Colacelli / @juancolacelli

07/17/2017 at 10:45PM

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#6 - Gabriel Siqueira / @gabrielhsiq

07/20/2017 at 04:55PM

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#7 - Михаил Доронин / @Boris_B_London

07/23/2017 at 09:30AM

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#8 - Petro Тrouq / @zulolosi

07/23/2017 at 04:22PM

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#9 - Preben Guldberg / @wielder

07/23/2017 at 10:05PM

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#10 - huho / @huho_xu

07/25/2017 at 07:46PM

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#11 - devoh / @devvohh

07/30/2017 at 03:35PM

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#12 - Song Zheng / @songz

08/03/2017 at 12:48AM

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#13 - Maricris Bonzo / @seemcat

08/03/2017 at 02:43AM

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#14 - Plop plop / @plopplopplop6

08/07/2017 at 08:05PM

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#15 - Cheer / @yougec

08/11/2017 at 03:40AM

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#16 - 杨洋 / @176795444

08/13/2017 at 09:04AM

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#17 - dadav 🥀 / @__dadav__

08/16/2017 at 05:40PM

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#18 - micro J / @microjoint

08/18/2017 at 03:55PM

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#19 - Sumit Agrawal / @sumitagrawal

08/18/2017 at 04:20PM

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#20 - Terry Ding / @TerryDing77

08/23/2017 at 09:32PM

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#21 - Philippe Brouillard / @_kurowasan

08/25/2017 at 01:21AM

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#22 - Solomon / @Trugbildjaeger

08/28/2017 at 08:28AM

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#23 - Darren Weston / @dazWestonUK

08/31/2017 at 01:18PM

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#24 - Gabor Lekeny / @leki75

10/24/2017 at 02:48PM

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#25 - Turkey Man / @lvturkeyman

11/08/2017 at 06:30PM

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#26 - Benoit Mortgat / @Benoit_Mortgat

11/14/2017 at 12:25PM

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#27 - 梧桐王子 / @WutongYujie

12/20/2017 at 03:45AM

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#28 - ParasamGateZero / @ParasamGateZero

02/10/2018 at 09:44PM

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#29 - DHM / @DHM29978992

04/28/2018 at 01:56AM

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#30 - Daniël De Koker / @daniel_koker

07/11/2018 at 06:22AM