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

Paste a column after a column - 2661 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #148 / 575
  • Number of attempts: 18
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6375 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #1550 / 1556
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18834 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #520 / 3892
  • Number of attempts: 19
I forgot quotes - 16106 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #866 / 4206
  • Number of attempts: 8
XML to JSON - 47 entries

Convert this xml file into json.

  • Best score: 75
  • Best player score: 245
  • Position: #18 / 20
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13343 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #584 / 3830
  • Number of attempts: 7
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