Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
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Played Challenges

One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #946 / 3869
  • Number of attempts: 9
Swap values inside brackets - 2507 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #32 / 582
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #648 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 2
Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #146 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3597 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #178 / 1167
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7915 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #78 / 1880
  • Number of attempts: 5
Cool or not? - 829 entries

abc trying to be cool or not...

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #130 / 230
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #36 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 6
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #125 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 8
Convert Application Output to CSV - 203 entries

Change the application output to comma-separated values

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #21 / 56
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #208 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11477 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1226 / 4206
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5675 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #494 / 1268
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple format (2) - 335 entries

try again!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #10 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 6
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #422 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1847 / 4188
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #254 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 5
attr_aligner - 3522 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #298 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 12
Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1729 / 3968
  • Number of attempts: 3
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