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 - 4864 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #83 / 1912
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2401 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #89 / 768
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3237 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1049 / 1145
  • Number of attempts: 2
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 262 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #33 / 119
  • Number of attempts: 3
120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #114 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 2
Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1187 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #114 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 6
Don't know what this is - 2048 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: 18
  • Position: #561 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mess in revision history - 1228 entries

Help Joe clean up what Steve has cobbled.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #239 / 256
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10749 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2561 / 3712
  • Number of attempts: 8
quotes inside quotes - 3200 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #600 / 1091
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13033 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2862 / 3987
  • Number of attempts: 1
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