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

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33966 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: 28
  • Position: #4513 / 7501
  • Number of attempts: 6
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #1458 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2785 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1105 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #232 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 2
Array transposition - 2472 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #440 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mustapha Hamoui
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