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: #1428 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 11
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #925 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18776 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1214 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #323 / 583
  • Number of attempts: 5
Swap the operands under comparison - 297 entries

Swap the operands under comparison to prevent null pointer exception (at least in java)

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #45 / 101
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10887 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1171 / 3074
  • Number of attempts: 7
Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2706 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 1
Team names - 1841 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 20
  • Position: #486 / 589
  • Number of attempts: 1
Vice versa - 7953 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #806 / 2140
  • Number of attempts: 6
Line under headers - 2059 entries

Put a line under each header, and remove the other markdown formatting.

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #460 / 507
  • Number of attempts: 2
convert yml into java pojo field - 857 entries

How fast vim can create fields for java pojo i.e class declaration referring to a (simple) yml file

  • Best score: 29
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #133 / 227
  • Number of attempts: 6
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1786 / 4192
  • Number of attempts: 5
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #3405 / 3691
  • Number of attempts: 2
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1685 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 5
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