Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33621 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #3733 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 6
V to the i - 4802 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #223 / 1893
  • Number of attempts: 5
Search and Replace 0 - 4989 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #390 / 1624
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11457 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #374 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 10
Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 49
  • Position: #177 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add to end of each line... kinda - 333 entries

Visual-block mode can be used to add something to the end of each line, even if they are of differing lengths. However, what if it's not quite at the end?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #124 / 174
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1451 / 2128
  • Number of attempts: 2
comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #48 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 3
Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

Replace all instance of plugin and Plugin to device and Device.

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #110 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 2
Mirror Symmetry - 822 entries

Add backslashes.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #228 / 269
  • Number of attempts: 3
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #687 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 6
Space out the alphabet - 1657 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #352 / 444
  • Number of attempts: 1
I forgot quotes - 15989 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2487 / 4181
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #798 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 3
Don't know what this is - 2022 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #497 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 1
Where should I put the Newline? - 881 entries

Help me put the newline.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #157 / 437
  • Number of attempts: 4
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10666 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #738 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 9
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1488 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 5
switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1386 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 12815 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2463 / 3696
  • Number of attempts: 1
MikoĊ‚aj Morzy
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Computer Scientist at Poznan University of Technology, working in data mining, social network analysis and databases.

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