Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

Replace markdown sections with numbering - 180 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 164
  • Position: #52 / 55
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1625 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #335 / 349
  • Number of attempts: 2
delete swap - 1788 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #290 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 8
Fix the shell script! - 2596 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #433 / 603
  • Number of attempts: 4
hello-world-vimgolf - 2501 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #629 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easy modification of ssh config - 382 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #99 / 115
  • Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1057 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #564 / 667
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #400 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1365 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #394 / 532
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the Haiku - 313 entries

Change this slightly scrambled haiku to its unscrambled form and fix the capitalisation and punctuation along the way.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #112 / 114
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13013 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #3446 / 3744
  • Number of attempts: 2
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