Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Easier Align - 406 entries

Align the columns of a markdown table

  • Best score: 51
  • Best player score: 154
  • Position: #45 / 96
  • Number of attempts: 1
Paste a column after a column - 2555 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #28 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 5
Tabbed Table to Python Array - 735 entries

Not payed by the hour? So make it fast ;-) The table contains the relative occurencies of bigrams (two consecutive letters) in 1/100,000 in the german language, copy-pasted from http://www.mathe.tu-freiberg.de/~hebisch/cafe/kryptographie/bigramme.html

  • Best score: 50
  • Best player score: 56
  • Position: #55 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 1
HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

  • Best score: 47
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #158 / 417
  • Number of attempts: 1
Many duplicates - 1447 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #219 / 470
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 2596 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #308 / 603
  • Number of attempts: 1
hello-world-vimgolf - 2501 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #409 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fill in the chess board - 959 entries

Fill in the name of each square using its file (a-h) and rank (1-8).

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #58 / 185
  • Number of attempts: 12
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: #2375 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 5
Hogwarts Email Sorting - 928 entries

Given a list of emails, get the students full name and their associated house.

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #54 / 262
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2020 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4813 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1493 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
underscore_to_camelCase - 173 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #59 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
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