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: 22
  • Position: #265 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 6
Just the middle - 11457 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2064 / 4198
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5648 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #433 / 1264
  • Number of attempts: 5
Vice versa - 7907 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #117 / 2128
  • Number of attempts: 5
comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #66 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace and keep the case - 437 entries

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

  • Best score: 26
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #93 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4298 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #152 / 1190
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 15989 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1623 / 4181
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10666 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #874 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1511 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 4
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: 14
  • Position: #1494 / 3696
  • Number of attempts: 3
Sebastian Nickel
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Natural Language Processing/Machine Learning application developer. I like econ, Minecraft, cogsci, AI, maths, and (rigorous) philosophy.

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