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

delete swap - 1843 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #179 / 573
  • Number of attempts: 1
Fix the shell script! - 2676 entries

Fix the shell script with the fewest keystrokes!

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #475 / 622
  • Number of attempts: 1
Put a cross in the square - 243 entries

Put a cross in the square

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #45 / 93
  • Number of attempts: 1
swap number pairs - 2169 entries

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

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 38
  • Position: #313 / 393
  • Number of attempts: 2
Rural Post - 4591 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #765 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33958 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: 24
  • Position: #3124 / 7498
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6388 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #695 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 7
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1339 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10932 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #1946 / 3091
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4332 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #504 / 1196
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10743 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1558 / 3710
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7564 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 51
  • Position: #1499 / 1865
  • Number of attempts: 1
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