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 - 4567 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #369 / 1114
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33801 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: 29
  • Position: #4980 / 7459
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #313 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 8
One number per line - 18811 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #2802 / 3883
  • Number of attempts: 2
V to the i - 4826 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #749 / 1900
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10905 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1595 / 3079
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3616 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #453 / 1174
  • Number of attempts: 4
ninja substitution - 1424 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #160 / 268
  • Number of attempts: 4
Vice versa - 7971 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1429 / 2145
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4312 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1119 / 1193
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #870 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10703 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1543 / 3696
  • Number of attempts: 3
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