Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf setup
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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18749 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #3413 / 3867
  • Number of attempts: 3
V to the i - 4810 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1295 / 1896
  • Number of attempts: 2
comment and uncomment code inline - 1122 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #296 / 322
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #482 / 588
  • Number of attempts: 1
Learn some german verbs - 533 entries

The list needs to be structured so we can print in verbatim and feel ok about how it looks.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #74 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5673 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #817 / 1267
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 865 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #264 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7922 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1818 / 2132
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 15997 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2622 / 4184
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #998 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2956 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vertical Limit - 2540 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #640 / 755
  • Number of attempts: 2
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