Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Reformat symbols in list - 1635 entries

Saw this in some lecture, easy reformatting using multiple cursor in VS Code

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #83 / 352
  • Number of attempts: 10
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1664 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #445 / 559
  • Number of attempts: 4
Modernise code - 1410 entries

Modernise and clean up some C++ code.

  • Best score: 34
  • Best player score: 54
  • Position: #259 / 326
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33791 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: 27
  • Position: #3985 / 7455
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values - 4647 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #288 / 1276
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3614 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #122 / 1173
  • Number of attempts: 2
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1048 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2805 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5685 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #292 / 1270
  • Number of attempts: 9
I forgot quotes - 16061 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1886 / 4195
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12975 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1752 / 3971
  • Number of attempts: 4
remove dupes from array - 1360 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #155 / 337
  • Number of attempts: 6
Simple text editing with Vim - 13143 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1754 / 3777
  • Number of attempts: 5
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