Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Rural Post - 4515 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #235 / 1106
  • Number of attempts: 4
Satisfy the go linter - 2437 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #260 / 481
  • Number of attempts: 2
Multiline to Single Line - 731 entries

Convert a multiline, indented file to a single line with no whitespace

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #28 / 310
  • Number of attempts: 1
Data reformat - 294 entries

Reformat this copy-paste data! #csv

  • Best score: 36
  • Best player score: 97
  • Position: #57 / 65
  • Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 710 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #156 / 223
  • Number of attempts: 1
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 775 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #83 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 3
Yo To Hello - 1137 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #30 / 528
  • Number of attempts: 2
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1150 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #188 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33722 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: 22
  • Position: #2181 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6332 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #170 / 1545
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1319 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #760 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 3
Edgar Domingues
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