Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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

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

Played Challenges

V to the i - 4830 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #889 / 1903
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3225 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #19 / 1140
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2025 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #457 / 587
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10713 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #403 / 3700
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12992 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2139 / 3977
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13273 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1343 / 3811
  • Number of attempts: 4
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