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

Reordering Lorem Ipsum - 122 entries

Who even sorted this?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 130
  • Position: #28 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 1
Migrated to Postgres! - 169 entries

Celebration completion of this project. https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf/pull/322

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #67 / 72
  • Number of attempts: 2
swap number pairs - 1357 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #243 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1004 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #339 / 463
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 32803 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: 36
  • Position: #6616 / 7246
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 5908 entries

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

  • Best score: 32
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #1186 / 1462
  • Number of attempts: 5
Jeremy Thompson
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