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Simple, Practical, and Common - 33600 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: 22
  • Position: #197 / 7412
  • Number of attempts: 9
V to the i - 4798 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #304 / 1891
  • Number of attempts: 4
That hyphen - 2595 entries

"vim vi improved"

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #337 / 701
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11429 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #476 / 4188
  • Number of attempts: 2
Make HTML List - 1050 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #46 / 273
  • Number of attempts: 5
Basic renumbering - 5645 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #427 / 1263
  • Number of attempts: 8
Vice versa - 7903 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #86 / 2125
  • Number of attempts: 5
lipsum lines - 273 entries

Convert a quoted block of text into strings in a list.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #6 / 94
  • Number of attempts: 4
Angular naming conventions - 320 entries

In angular, a directive name follows the camelCase convention. When the directive is used in an HTML template, the words are instead separated by a dash. Go from to the other the fastest!

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #18 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 6
Manual SQL - 160 entries

Change select and insert queries to simulate inserting a new record.

  • Best score: 48
  • Best player score: 71
  • Position: #34 / 50
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #120 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 9
I forgot quotes - 15974 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #292 / 4175
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3213 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #140 / 1137
  • Number of attempts: 5
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #34 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10657 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #807 / 3679
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3498 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #325 / 696
  • Number of attempts: 1
quotes inside quotes - 3157 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #219 / 1076
  • Number of attempts: 4
Words in parens - 12928 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #616 / 3960
  • Number of attempts: 6
switch variable - 5071 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #386 / 1748
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple text editing with Vim - 12717 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #390 / 3673
  • Number of attempts: 5
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 6902 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #372 / 1691
  • Number of attempts: 4
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