Show HN: A Tetris finesse inspired Vim game

3 isomierism 0 9/3/2025, 6:18:09 PM vimfinesse.com ↗

Since VIM seems to be inspired by efficiency, I was curious what the "most efficient" way to solve any particular challenge would be. It was really nontrivial to make significant progress on a proof based approach so it seemed like a leetcode style community ranking driven leaderboard would be a pretty good proxy for what seems to be accepted on as "goodness"

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Show HN: A Tetris finesse inspired Vim game

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