Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #998 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 19
  • Position: #676 / 756
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #659 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11500 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #4078 / 4216
  • Number of attempts: 2
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #951 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 1
Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #49 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 2
Space out the alphabet - 1659 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #300 / 446
  • Number of attempts: 3
Fill visual area - 91 entries

Just have fun!

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #36 / 38
  • Number of attempts: 1
ASCII box - 347 entries

Don't forget to fix typos!

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #87 / 107
  • Number of attempts: 1
Mute the second method of this script - 455 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #172 / 239
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting database text output - 223 entries

Sometimes it is nice to be able to quickly take column-formatted text output from the SQL command line and turn it into a list of useful data. In this case we want a unique, sorted list of the values from the second column combined into one comma-separated list. What is the fewest strokes you can do this in?

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #61 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3878 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 1
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #925 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3576 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 2
attr_aligner - 3525 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #571 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #3462 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 13092 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #3075 / 3765
  • Number of attempts: 2
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