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

Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #53 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 4
A Simple One - 1064 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: #69 / 670
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse and count - 486 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #107 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 2
Letters are numbers - 167 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #70 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse Simple Deletion - 857 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #114 / 461
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment, increment, increment.... - 701 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #146 / 413
  • Number of attempts: 1
The Cake is a Lie - 1374 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #299 / 534
  • Number of attempts: 3
Make Fancy Header - 1070 entries

Make the header text stand out with surrounding asterisks

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #140 / 348
  • Number of attempts: 1
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