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 4d1e037dde2f897c2a000417

Reverse and count

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

Start file

Sixth line
Fifth line
Fourth line
Third line
Second line
First line

End file

1. First line
2. Second line
3. Third line
4. Fourth line
5. Fifth line
6. Sixth line

View Diff

1,6c1,6
< Sixth line
< Fifth line
< Fourth line
< Third line
< Second line
< First line
---
> 1. First line
> 2. Second line
> 3. Third line
> 4. Fourth line
> 5. Fifth line
> 6. Sixth line

Solutions by @bjjwillis:

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Solutions by @bjjwillis:

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#59 - Brad / @bjjwillis

01/02/2011 at 01:31AM

26

#>95 - Brad / @bjjwillis

01/02/2011 at 01:26AM