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

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 750 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #6 / 405
  • Number of attempts: 4
Search and Replace 0 - 4956 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1136 / 1616
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1039 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #130 / 658
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 845 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #155 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment, increment, increment.... - 677 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #158 / 405
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12635 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2526 / 3656
  • Number of attempts: 2
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