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 - 4290 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #225 / 1052
  • Number of attempts: 2
Yo To Hello - 1091 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #186 / 503
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4717 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #739 / 1874
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3563 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #301 / 799
  • Number of attempts: 2
Box it - 7782 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #362 / 1853
  • Number of attempts: 3
Every other line - 2869 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #67 / 695
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple addition - 303 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: #70 / 113
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7687 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #558 / 2079
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mirrored text - 163 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #29 / 69
  • Number of attempts: 2
Inner hyphens - 124 entries

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

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #68 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 1
Align commas - 1049 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 / 241
  • Number of attempts: 6
From A to B - 562 entries

Mirror and change this text block

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #94 / 154
  • Number of attempts: 2
Subtraction - 178 entries

Solve the equations.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #13 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 2
-a-b-c- - 3160 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #291 / 1124
  • Number of attempts: 1
Count both ways - 987 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #54 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10584 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2446 / 3653
  • Number of attempts: 1
A simple change - 434 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #123 / 187
  • Number of attempts: 1
Alphabet soup - 406 entries

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

  • Best score: 25
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #5 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 4
Sort the cardinal numbers - 284 entries

Maybe a simple challenge.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #64 / 143
  • Number of attempts: 2
Round Round - 285 entries

Round Round

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #7 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 2
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