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 - 4883 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #1589 / 1914
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2646 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #430 / 711
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11616 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1695 / 4255
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 463 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #20 / 244
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10755 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2729 / 3715
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letter case trickery - 1686 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #371 / 525
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 13053 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #3222 / 3991
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13626 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2747 / 3902
  • Number of attempts: 1
Pierre Langlois
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Software engineer, embedded hacker

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