Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 2506 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #465 / 713
  • Number of attempts: 1
Inverting Lines - 1924 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #19 / 516
  • Number of attempts: 2
Modernise code - 1418 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #112 / 327
  • Number of attempts: 4
swap number pairs - 2140 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #150 / 389
  • Number of attempts: 2
HS Final exam vimgolf - 912 entries

Change the initial file to a single line containing all names comma-separated with numbers inside parentheses.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #108 / 240
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4567 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #428 / 1114
  • Number of attempts: 4
Multiline to Single Line - 737 entries

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

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #112 / 313
  • 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: 23
  • Position: #2816 / 7455
  • Number of attempts: 6
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: 11
  • Position: #728 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18801 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1558 / 3882
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1730 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 6
Vice versa - 7968 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #1897 / 2144
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2031 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 1
Alphabet soup - 434 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #84 / 109
  • Number of attempts: 1
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