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 - 4450 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #237 / 1089
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1127 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #186 / 522
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4796 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #739 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3780 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #314 / 855
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7897 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #362 / 1872
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2910 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #67 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple addition - 323 entries

The right side of the equation is already there. We just need the left one now.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #73 / 120
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7891 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #558 / 2121
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mirrored text - 177 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #31 / 71
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inner hyphens - 136 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #70 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1092 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: 11
  • Position: #87 / 245
  • Number of attempts: 6
From A to B - 591 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #97 / 159
  • Number of attempts: 2
Subtraction - 180 entries

Solve the equations.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #14 / 62
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #291 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #54 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10654 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2460 / 3678
  • Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 461 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #126 / 191
  • Number of attempts: 1
Alphabet soup - 428 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #5 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 4
Sort the cardinal numbers - 310 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #68 / 148
  • Number of attempts: 2
Round Round - 299 entries

Round Round

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #7 / 87
  • Number of attempts: 2
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