Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

swap number pairs - 2011 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #71 / 370
  • Number of attempts: 9
Rural Post - 4379 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #378 / 1074
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33396 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #5324 / 7367
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6223 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #682 / 1519
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18627 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3104 / 3843
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10795 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2049 / 3045
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7828 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #1346 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 1
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