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 [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Stairstep digits - 366 entries

Remove the evens. Double the odds.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #134 / 137
  • Number of attempts: 1
Acute accents - 31 entries

Featuring all 17 lowercase letters with an acute accent digraph. Find a way to automate the digraphs.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #23 / 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15840 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 52
  • Position: #4123 / 4133
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12788 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #3813 / 3930
  • Number of attempts: 1
expand a list comprehension (python) - 291 entries

Please show your way to convert a list comprehension in python to an ordinary for-loop expression!

  • Best score: 42
  • Best player score: 141
  • Position: #103 / 104
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 11865 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #859 / 3472
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6225 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 68
  • Position: #1462 / 1533
  • Number of attempts: 15

Contributed Challenges

Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6225 entries

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

Simple text editing with Vim - 11865 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3103 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Ilya Grigorik
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entered into 7 challenges

contributed 3 challenges