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

Rural Post - 4595 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #639 / 1121
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33970 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: 33
  • Position: #6274 / 7503
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 10
  • Position: #13 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 11
Quote modules - 1101 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 50
  • Position: #278 / 289
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10943 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1293 / 3093
  • Number of attempts: 4
Split line with dots - 2174 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #564 / 638
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7998 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #926 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 8011 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #979 / 2153
  • Number of attempts: 16
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1091 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16179 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3566 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 13032 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #3178 / 3986
  • Number of attempts: 5
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