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

V to the i - 4885 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #145 / 1915
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5162 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #188 / 1675
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap assigned value - 695 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #27 / 263
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3242 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #926 / 1147
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13054 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #209 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 7
Word frequency alignment - 310 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #28 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 4
Prefixes and suffixes - 668 entries

Generate all prefixes of "vimchallenge", then all suffixes.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #53 / 207
  • Number of attempts: 10
The meaning - 588 entries

Numbers are fun!

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #169 / 368
  • Number of attempts: 2
A Simple One - 1093 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: 9
  • Position: #304 / 681
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reconstruct the Sentence - 1754 entries

Get the sentence back in the proper order, remove duplicate lines, and then combine the separate lines into one.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #83 / 458
  • Number of attempts: 4
Taro Yamada
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