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 - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #113 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 3
Extract argument from function - 2369 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #593 / 756
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #301 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 4
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #68 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 3
Gray area - 747 entries

It's a golf metaphor or something.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #152 / 271
  • Number of attempts: 2
Don't know what this is - 2024 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: #176 / 586
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2171 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 1
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