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

swap number pairs - 2168 entries

Swap the numbers in a bunch of 2-element arrays.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #366 / 392
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4579 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #955 / 1117
  • Number of attempts: 5
Satisfy the go linter - 2476 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #456 / 492
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33927 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: 37
  • Position: #6946 / 7488
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6375 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1238 / 1556
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #3601 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3624 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #448 / 1178
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7980 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #1576 / 1894
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2381 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 10
Words in parens - 13001 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1847 / 3978
  • Number of attempts: 7
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