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 - 4593 entries

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

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #840 / 1120
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 21
  • Position: #1364 / 1559
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18889 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3297 / 3898
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2545 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #321 / 591
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10934 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #2799 / 3092
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3643 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1105 / 1181
  • Number of attempts: 2
Com(m)a Trouble - 3988 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #791 / 908
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11576 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3673 / 4242
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16176 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #4160 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1077 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #653 / 676
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13517 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2395 / 3876
  • Number of attempts: 2
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