Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

Quicksort - 2003 entries

We need the numbers in the first row sorted as quickly as possible! Be careful not to disturb the data below the divider though: that must remain unchanged.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #33 / 441
  • Number of attempts: 5
Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string. - 561 entries

Surround the 'z' character with brackets, quotes, and print as formatted string.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #157 / 314
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 34
  • Position: #433 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 4
Many duplicates - 1447 entries

Quick and easy

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #263 / 470
  • Number of attempts: 3
delete swap - 1788 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #296 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 2596 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #116 / 603
  • Number of attempts: 11
hello-world-vimgolf - 2501 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #297 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 6
Inverting Lines - 1907 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #206 / 512
  • Number of attempts: 5
Python dataclasses - 1187 entries

Simple challenge to extract fields from a Python class

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 57
  • Position: #282 / 294
  • Number of attempts: 1
Switch function arguments - 2142 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #334 / 665
  • Number of attempts: 7
Sort and add attributes - 1477 entries

Sort the states and add the attribute country to each record.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #263 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 3
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3744 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #602 / 804
  • Number of attempts: 1
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