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

Python: Def to Lambda - 479 entries

LAMBDA!!!

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #19 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 1
Rural Post - 4596 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #535 / 1122
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add quotes to ansible playbook - 1042 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #282 / 331
  • Number of attempts: 1
xrandr outputs and dashes - 731 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #168 / 228
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1155 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #206 / 536
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33988 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: 27
  • Position: #4076 / 7509
  • Number of attempts: 1
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6390 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #270 / 1560
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10954 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1568 / 3097
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3646 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #812 / 1183
  • Number of attempts: 1
Box it - 7999 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1200 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11613 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3670 / 4253
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16187 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2385 / 4222
  • Number of attempts: 1
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