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
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$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

V to the i - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #45 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 5159 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #341 / 1674
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #222 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5736 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #653 / 1280
  • Number of attempts: 10
camel riding - 815 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #89 / 284
  • Number of attempts: 5
readability - 340 entries

Make the code readable by adding some spaces

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #30 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1693 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #22 / 457
  • Number of attempts: 13
Fix the XML - 1050 entries

The challenge consists in having a valid xml from an incomplete source.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #124 / 291
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shuffled numbers - 255 entries

Each number is paired with the number it should follow. That's enough information to put them in order.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #13 / 99
  • Number of attempts: 3
I forgot quotes - 16237 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #149 / 4224
  • Number of attempts: 3
Roman numerals - 106 entries

Use the substitutions on top to convert unary to Roman numerals.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #6 / 32
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3241 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #91 / 1146
  • Number of attempts: 7
NBCU Weekly Challenge - Test - 264 entries

Just testing.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #27 / 120
  • Number of attempts: 3
Lisp Condense - 484 entries

Reduce 4 cons selection operations down to one function call.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #14 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 8
120 Degrees - 517 entries

Rotate that triangle.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #11 / 147
  • Number of attempts: 10
NBCU Weekly Challenge - #0 - 162 entries

One of our favorites lines here at NBCU! p.s. The first version of #0 was deleted due to me copy/pasting a HTML entity. Congrats to the one who figured that out, you are a true ninja warrior!

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #11 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 4
Don't know what this is - 2067 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #169 / 595
  • Number of attempts: 6
Where should I put the Newline? - 911 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #100 / 450
  • Number of attempts: 3
Shuffle puzzle - 377 entries

Sort the lines in each indent group, and sort the groups. That's the pattern. Or just move lines around manually to get a better score.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #39 / 108
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10757 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #443 / 3716
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #547 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 4
Hole-in-one - 1040 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #70 / 307
  • Number of attempts: 7
Parsing with CSV: Unify lines and result. - 198 entries

col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1;4;5 A;3;4; A;1;4; # New output: col1;col2;col3;col4 A;1(2x);3;4(3x);5 any ideas?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #4 / 80
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: #50 / 166
  • Number of attempts: 1
Minimalist Limerick - 539 entries

Reproduce this lovely poem.

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #37 / 177
  • Number of attempts: 6
The Cake is a Lie - 1418 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #455 / 543
  • Number of attempts: 5
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