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

Wrap the text of an email message to 79 characters - 796 entries

You're replying to an email with silly long lines. Clean them up.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 6
  • Position: #341 / 418
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5002 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #37 / 1629
  • Number of attempts: 1
A Simple One - 1057 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #73 / 667
  • Number of attempts: 1
Another Mixed-Up Haiku - 265 entries

VimGolf ... a perfect evening?

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #6 / 90
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #129 / 410
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1359 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #20 / 530
  • Number of attempts: 1
Make Fancy Header - 1059 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #150 / 345
  • Number of attempts: 1
Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 3724 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #249 / 800
  • Number of attempts: 3
Flodder-challenge - 1309 entries

Replace the text the most efficient and win!

  • Best score: 27
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #40 / 343
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12925 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #773 / 3722
  • Number of attempts: 1
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