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 - 144 entries

Replace each section and subsection with their respective numbers

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 164
  • Position: #41 / 43
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reformat symbols in list - 1621 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #334 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 2
delete swap - 1786 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #290 / 555
  • Number of attempts: 8
Fix the shell script! - 2544 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #421 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 4
hello-world-vimgolf - 2499 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #628 / 708
  • Number of attempts: 1
Easy modification of ssh config - 371 entries

Just add another alias to each worker

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 55
  • Position: #96 / 112
  • Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1050 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 / 664
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reverse Simple Deletion - 847 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #398 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1346 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #392 / 527
  • Number of attempts: 4
Fix the Haiku - 308 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: #111 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12811 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #3403 / 3694
  • Number of attempts: 2
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