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: 7
  • Position: #169 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 2
Extract argument from function - 2372 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #602 / 757
  • Number of attempts: 1
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #428 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #148 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #359 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 5
Interleave lines - 185 entries

This is some kind of « paste -d'\n' c b a ». There are many ways to achieve this.. just find the shortest!

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 34
  • Position: #44 / 60
  • Number of attempts: 1
Logging with key - 328 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #39 / 88
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 24
  • Position: #19 / 83
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #101 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 5
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #535 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #635 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #511 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 3
Let's play some Ivmgolf - 1130 entries

Oops, I spelled that wrong.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #79 / 448
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #853 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13134 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #335 / 3776
  • Number of attempts: 9

Contributed Challenges

Rail fence transposition cipher - 84 entries

Solve a rail fence transposition cipher using vim. This ciphertext was created using two rails. Use vim to transpose the text and recover the original quote.

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entered into 15 challenges

contributed 1 challenges