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: #401 / 7422
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4622 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #815 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 1
One number per line - 18732 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2 / 3865
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4806 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1146 / 1894
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11458 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2141 / 4199
  • Number of attempts: 1
Basic renumbering - 5662 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #799 / 1265
  • Number of attempts: 2
underscore_to_camelCase - 173 entries

Pointy haired boss decided we need to switch to camelCase. Let's get this over with.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #63 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 2
Vice versa - 7910 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1028 / 2129
  • Number of attempts: 3
comments galore - 1045 entries

Basic comment reformatting

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #151 / 424
  • Number of attempts: 3
Inner hyphens - 136 entries

Yet another hyphen challenge. Adding 5 hyphens to a file shouldn't be too hard.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #48 / 82
  • 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: 29
  • Position: #76 / 118
  • Number of attempts: 2
Scrambled numbers - 807 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #55 / 184
  • Number of attempts: 4
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #187 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 4
I forgot quotes - 15990 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2142 / 4182
  • Number of attempts: 4
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #816 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 2
Count both ways - 1022 entries

Right AND down.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #115 / 354
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10669 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2106 / 3684
  • Number of attempts: 1
attr_aligner - 3520 entries

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

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #586 / 702
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12939 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2310 / 3964
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12822 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1517 / 3698
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7010 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #1323 / 1713
  • Number of attempts: 1
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