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 5192f96ad8df110002000002

Words in parens

We should all ace this, right?

Start file

one two
three

End file

(one) (two)
(three)

View Diff

1,2c1,2
< one two
< three
---
> (one) (two)
> (three)

Solutions

The best way to learn is to practice. Below, you will find some of the solutions other golfers have entered. To unlock higher ranked solutions, submit your own entry which does as well or better than the solutions you can currently see - climb the ladder!

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::%s/\(\a*\)/(&)/g<CR>ZZ<C-A><BS><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Left><Right><BS><CR><CR>%s/\(\w*\)/(\1)/g<CR>ZZ/<Esc><Esc>u<Esc>/<BS>:%s/\(\w*\)/(\1)/g<CR>ZZ<CR>:%s/\(\w*\)/(\1)/g<CR>ZZ<Left><Left><Right><Right><Right><BS><BS><BS><BS><BS><BS><CR><Esc>:w<CR><Esc>:wq<CR>

Created by: @udioica Tweet

3977 active golfers, 12992 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#1111 - speisz / @speiszc

06/29/2020 at 10:05PM

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#1112 - Ming Dai / @MingDai2

06/29/2020 at 10:34PM

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#1113 - 大矢元海 / @008Genkai

07/03/2020 at 08:44PM

14

#1114 - Jan Sturm / @JanSturm77

07/10/2020 at 10:15PM

14

#1115 - Vital Wang / @wang_vital

07/12/2020 at 06:03PM

14

#1116 - PK / @pkeugine

07/15/2020 at 02:00PM

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#1117 - Dmitry Branitskiy / @b1azer

07/15/2020 at 06:27PM

14

#1118 - Akira Sagara / @SagaraAkira

07/17/2020 at 03:43AM

14

#1119 - Виталий Макаров / @avada_keda_bra

07/24/2020 at 03:36PM

14

#1120 - Андрей / @appomsk

08/16/2020 at 04:29PM

14

#1121 - Łukasz Kadłubowski / @LAKadlubowski

08/21/2020 at 07:29AM

14

#1122 - Alex Daum / @JustBeAwesomer

08/21/2020 at 12:16PM

14

#1123 - Stewart Martin / @aspace_au

08/23/2020 at 04:21AM

14

#1124 - Udbhav Muthakana / @udbhavm_

08/28/2020 at 02:44AM

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#1125 - Alek Mugnozzo / @mugnozzo

08/30/2020 at 02:19PM

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#1126 - Edan Sneh / @edan_sneh

09/04/2020 at 06:08PM

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#1127 - dezhonger / @dezhonger

09/06/2020 at 06:11AM

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#1128 - akouryy / @akouryy1

09/07/2020 at 03:23AM

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#1129 - Piotr Kaznowski / @kaznowski

09/18/2020 at 06:21PM

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#1130 - Ivan Kwong / @IvanKwong5

09/26/2020 at 04:04PM

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#1131 - Alice / @Alice10204425

09/29/2020 at 10:20PM

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#1132 - mstronam / @mstronam

10/02/2020 at 04:28AM

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#1133 - Adrien Lemaire ドリ / @Adrien_Lemaire_

10/04/2020 at 01:00PM

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#1134 - Er St / @ErSt46286501

10/09/2020 at 09:27AM

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#1135 - noam teyssier / @noamteyssier

10/15/2020 at 03:41AM

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#1136 - Dmitry Antonyuk / @dm_antonyuk

10/15/2020 at 04:59PM

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#1137 - MySelf / @okmslf

10/17/2020 at 06:03PM

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#1138 - Muradil / @MuradilUdun

10/21/2020 at 05:39PM

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#1139 - Caio Alonso / @caioalon

11/04/2020 at 02:07AM

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#1140 - tehnomaag / @tehnomaag

11/04/2020 at 11:11AM