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Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

Played Challenges

months to html list items - 1042 entries

Turn the months into list items.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 25
Position: #108 / 284
Number of attempts: 7

EDN reformat - 1158 entries

The goal is to make the code more readable and concise while maintaining its functionality.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 34
Position: #127 / 164
Number of attempts: 4

Find fix point of cos - 1408 entries

Write a function to find the fix point of cos. It is not a good code; It is just to use vim. Inspired by the excellent https://mvanier.livejournal.com/2897.html about the Y combinator.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #216 / 418
Number of attempts: 3

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: 23
Position: #371 / 557
Number of attempts: 4

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: 86
Position: #160 / 179
Number of attempts: 2

HS exam question - 1589 entries

Convert the data to a python dictionary

Best score: 47
Best player score: 127
Position: #382 / 417
Number of attempts: 1

delete swap - 1788 entries

delete all swap

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #319 / 557
Number of attempts: 10

Fix the shell script! - 2596 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

Best score: 26
Best player score: 38
Position: #385 / 603
Number of attempts: 4

simple replacements - 1802 entries

The goal is to see the replacement commands in action.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 42
Position: #379 / 390
Number of attempts: 3

Inverting Lines - 1907 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 17
Position: #430 / 512
Number of attempts: 6

Rural Post - 4526 entries

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

Best score: 9
Best player score: 13
Position: #669 / 1107
Number of attempts: 1

Satisfy the go linter - 2437 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: 37
Position: #433 / 481
Number of attempts: 2

Yo To Hello - 1142 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

Best score: 8
Best player score: 12
Position: #492 / 529
Number of attempts: 2

Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1150 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

Best score: 21
Best player score: 40
Position: #197 / 232
Number of attempts: 4

prepend * to every non-blank line - 6337 entries

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

Best score: 10
Best player score: 20
Position: #1317 / 1546
Number of attempts: 2

Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 60
Position: #518 / 530
Number of attempts: 1

Extract argument from function - 2364 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 21
Position: #717 / 755
Number of attempts: 2

That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

Best score: 9
Best player score: 19
Position: #674 / 701
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #3195 / 4209
Number of attempts: 5

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 1000 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 44
Position: #258 / 382
Number of attempts: 2

Adam's challenge - 987 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 26
Position: #247 / 271
Number of attempts: 7

Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 16
Position: #1450 / 2138
Number of attempts: 4

Order and join - 985 entries

There's something special about the input order.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #145 / 260
Number of attempts: 8

Join 'em - 251 entries

This shouldn't be too tough

Best score: 4
Best player score: 4
Position: #23 / 151
Number of attempts: 1

Change your calendar - 392 entries

Happy New Year!

Best score: 18
Best player score: 58
Position: #84 / 87
Number of attempts: 7

-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #737 / 1138
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #135 / 354
Number of attempts: 4

Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #221 / 437
Number of attempts: 4

Mess in revision history - 1184 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

Best score: 17
Best player score: 73
Position: #249 / 250
Number of attempts: 3

SFD-ROC: vimvimvim - 1606 entries

Oh no, this line is longer than 80 chars... put each 'vim' on a new line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #129 / 446
Number of attempts: 10

Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1122 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #142 / 446
Number of attempts: 6

replacing each line of a block selection - 3001 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

Best score: 18
Best player score: 25
Position: #550 / 778
Number of attempts: 13

Append semicolon after expressions - 1056 entries

Some lines need the semicolon, some don't.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #393 / 419
Number of attempts: 2

The meaning - 575 entries

Numbers are fun!

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #321 / 363
Number of attempts: 4

remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

Best score: 17
Best player score: 26
Position: #260 / 336
Number of attempts: 3

Numbering a List - 1935 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 19
Position: #276 / 654
Number of attempts: 4

CSV to JSON - 173 entries

A search for shortest vimissh way to convert CSV to JSON.

Best score: 56
Best player score: 194
Position: #61 / 66
Number of attempts: 9

Shebangs for all - 2018 entries

We've all seen or used a shebang once or twice. Ditch the specific paths and leave just a dynamic Ruby and Python bath behind.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 20
Position: #426 / 519
Number of attempts: 4

Make Fancy Header - 1063 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

Best score: 15
Best player score: 25
Position: #309 / 346
Number of attempts: 6

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3742 entries

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

Best score: 16
Best player score: 22
Position: #335 / 803
Number of attempts: 3

Simple text editing with Vim - 12989 entries

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

Best score: 13
Best player score: 40
Position: #3577 / 3737
Number of attempts: 2

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