Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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Played Challenges

Paste a column after a column - 2610 entries

This task is very common while using multi-cursor. What is the elegant vim way ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 33
  • Position: #435 / 566
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 30
  • Position: #5288 / 7455
  • Number of attempts: 3
One number per line - 18801 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #1505 / 3882
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #85 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1072 / 1886
  • Number of attempts: 1
change parenthesis - 299 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #101 / 162
  • Number of attempts: 2
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