Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put [challenge ID]

Played Challenges

Box it - 4246 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 32
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract wireshark capture filter - 129 entries

Extract wireshark capture filter from IP plan

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 28
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 14188 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 26
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 1291 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 4337 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 2177 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Number of attempts: 3
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge2 - 116 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 6
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple, Practical, and Common - 26812 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: 25
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 12724 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Number of attempts: 5
Applying same text modification in several lines - 1991 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 11370 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Number of attempts: 4
ninja substitution - 771 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Number of attempts: 9
Com(m)a Trouble - 2090 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 25
  • Number of attempts: 5
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