Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

ssh config skills - 258 entries

Parse output from `kuebctl get no -o wide` into an .ssh/config file!

  • Best score: 41
  • Best player score: 78
  • Position: #49 / 66
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4532 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #316 / 1107
  • Number of attempts: 9
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: 20
  • Position: #56 / 481
  • Number of attempts: 22
Yo To Hello - 1142 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #230 / 529
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: #3095 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6337 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #887 / 1546
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #691 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 18
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #625 / 3072
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #380 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 11
Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1423 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #1071 / 4189
  • Number of attempts: 16
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