Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

Easy modification of ssh config - 371 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #22 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 7
Rural Post - 4485 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #464 / 1099
  • Number of attempts: 6
Satisfy the go linter - 2391 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: 51
  • Position: #461 / 471
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 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: #2374 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 13
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6318 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #752 / 1539
  • Number of attempts: 9
Add semicolons - 10867 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #755 / 3065
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7906 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1042 / 1877
  • Number of attempts: 7
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