Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 779 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: 26
  • Position: #137 / 173
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 24
  • Position: #3090 / 7455
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values - 4647 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #970 / 1276
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 19
  • Position: #1230 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18801 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1982 / 3882
  • Number of attempts: 9
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2907 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #244 / 860
  • Number of attempts: 7
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1500 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #789 / 1173
  • Number of attempts: 8
Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1357 / 1886
  • Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #779 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: #179 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1973 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3329 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 2
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