Maybe i'm missing it, but I think this would be much more useful if it showed what the optimal way to navigate per-target was.
You are looking for this: https://github.com/igrigorik/vimgolf
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#12It is very useful to be able to see how other did it though leaderboard.
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#13Hi, I just engraved myself in the highscore for the jpeg level with 17 seconds. What a lovely competitive game! I had great fun just "shooting from the gut" (no minmaxing, just did the movements i would do "instinctively" to get to the requested position)
I particularly cherish the "show me the moves of leaderboard games" feature which hopefully can serve as an educational resource.
In regards to how the leaderboard is constructed, i noticed some of the top players are at 1 second, which doesn't seem humanly possible to me (that would amount to All the best moving forward!
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#14It's a game you can't stop once you start.
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#15Hi, I just engraved myself in the highscore for the jpeg level with 17 seconds. What a lovely competitive game! I had great fun just "shooting from the gut" (no minmaxing, just did the movements i would do "instinctively" to get to the requested position) I particularly cherish the "show me the moves of leaderboard games" feature which hopefully can serve as an educational resource. In regards to how the leaderboard…
Well you can search for the shortest command combination to reach that position, at least to some extent.
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#16This is really cool, I ran into a bug where I deleted a line that the program would have targeted in a future step which crashed it for me though
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#17It's a game you can't stop once you start.
Because you can't exit vim? :-)
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#18Doing `/searchterm/e` doesn't work.
Quite nice otherwise.
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#19I've had a similar idea on my backburner for two years, as a fun project to dabble in Elixir, but this is just so much more _fun_ than my version which looks like an admin page that just happens to have a Vim canvas on it.
Well done!
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#20I feel like I found a bug but I'm not sure - when I do then Shift +G I don't think the behavior is correct.