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 - 34033 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: 22
  • Position: #2196 / 7519
  • Number of attempts: 3
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6399 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #232 / 1564
  • Number of attempts: 9
One number per line - 18911 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #668 / 3907
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10958 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #586 / 3098
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3658 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #980 / 1187
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3993 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #812 / 910
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11630 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1394 / 4261
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vim's not included features - 266 entries

Filter not included (-) features in a hypothetical installation of vim.

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #36 / 70
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2095 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #182 / 515
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16240 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1989 / 4226
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13058 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1123 / 3993
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5131 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1608 / 1766
  • Number of attempts: 1
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