Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

hello-world-vimgolf - 2501 entries

Simple number generation

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #620 / 709
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33717 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: 26
  • Position: #3574 / 7441
  • Number of attempts: 3
Swap values - 4639 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #906 / 1273
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18751 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #3194 / 3869
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1863 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 1
Add semicolons - 10879 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1969 / 3071
  • Number of attempts: 1
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3602 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #169 / 1168
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7915 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #1370 / 1880
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #409 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5004 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1228 / 1630
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11479 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #3587 / 4207
  • Number of attempts: 3
Un"finnish"ed Work - 116 entries

Replace å by a, ä by a and ö by o.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #37 / 60
  • 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: 25
  • Position: #79 / 82
  • Number of attempts: 1
One to Ten - 2225 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #626 / 676
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #980 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16014 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #3257 / 4188
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10679 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #2278 / 3688
  • Number of attempts: 5
Words in parens - 12966 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2951 / 3968
  • Number of attempts: 1
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1662 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 1
Simple text editing with Vim - 12959 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #2661 / 3731
  • Number of attempts: 3
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