Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: #614 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 5
V to the i - 4818 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #405 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #707 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 3
Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #1038 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7953 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1258 / 2140
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #241 / 1192
  • Number of attempts: 5
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #449 / 4192
  • Number of attempts: 7
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #966 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 1
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1008 / 3691
  • Number of attempts: 2
replacing each line of a block selection - 3005 entries

replace each line's ../assets/js with /javascripts

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #85 / 779
  • Number of attempts: 7
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #433 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13013 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #430 / 3744
  • Number of attempts: 4
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7173 entries

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

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #469 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 3
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