Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #472 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: 29
  • Position: #4913 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 3
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #71 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6318 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #15 / 1539
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #606 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 8
Quote modules - 1084 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #200 / 281
  • Number of attempts: 7
Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #71 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 3
Quote modules (ver.2) - 239 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #35 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10867 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1313 / 3065
  • Number of attempts: 6
Bad Copy Syntax - 2038 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #329 / 526
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3829 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #98 / 866
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7906 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #279 / 1877
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11458 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3007 / 4199
  • Number of attempts: 1
Line under headers - 2045 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #68 / 504
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 15990 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1929 / 4182
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1073 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 3
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