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

change parenthesis - 219 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 6531 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 7
Bad Copy Syntax - 1667 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 30718 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: 24
  • Number of attempts: 6
Reorder the groups - 935 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 33
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 14678 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 17
  • Number of attempts: 2
Interweave two blocks of text - 522 entries

Suppose you've got data on a list of things from multiple sources. They're all in separate chunks, so how might you create a tabular output?

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Number of attempts: 1
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