Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Prime Numbers - 376 entries

List the first 100 prime numbers.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 374
  • Position: #99 / 106
  • Number of attempts: 1
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #60 / 1630
  • Number of attempts: 2
The name of the game - 671 entries

End up with the name of the game.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #286 / 362
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate English Alphabets - 487 entries

Start with a, get up to z.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #83 / 206
  • Number of attempts: 2
The holy-grail may help - 377 entries

Can you find it in less than 20 strokes, Arthur?

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #193 / 212
  • Number of attempts: 1
Reverse and count - 480 entries

Someone typed things upside down and now a Vim ninja needs to reverse the lines and count how many there are.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #144 / 178
  • Number of attempts: 1
Letters are numbers - 167 entries

Letters and numbers are interchangeable. A lot of programming languages give you simple ways to convert individual letters to hex, binary and decimal but does Vim?

  • Best score: 20
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #56 / 76
  • Number of attempts: 2
Reverse Simple Deletion - 854 entries

You did the simple deletion, now reverse it.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #88 / 460
  • Number of attempts: 2
Increment, increment, increment.... - 692 entries

Vim likes macros

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #171 / 410
  • Number of attempts: 1
Sorting paragraphs - 552 entries

Order the paragraphs correctly, per prefixed index

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #55 / 165
  • Number of attempts: 4
The Cake is a Lie - 1365 entries

Correct the capitalization of each word

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #65 / 532
  • Number of attempts: 3
Almost encrypted - 204 entries

Convert the first paragraph to be even less readable.

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #26 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 1
Get rid of html tags - 407 entries

Want to read more about Vim's background? Then get rid of those html tags...

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #57 / 236
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2363 / 3739
  • Number of attempts: 2
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