Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf setup
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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33791 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: 32
  • Position: #5994 / 7455
  • Number of attempts: 8
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #942 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18801 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1965 / 3882
  • Number of attempts: 8
Quote modules - 1094 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #238 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1379 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #388 / 1173
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #1692 / 1886
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1361 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #169 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 8
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3965 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3679 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 3
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