Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33757 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: 25
  • Position: #3362 / 7450
  • Number of attempts: 5
One number per line - 18780 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #3352 / 3877
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10889 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1975 / 3076
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #634 / 1172
  • Number of attempts: 6
Com(m)a Trouble - 3890 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #759 / 882
  • Number of attempts: 5
Box it - 7939 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1070 / 1885
  • Number of attempts: 6
ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #180 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2234 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: 12
  • Position: #137 / 679
  • Number of attempts: 2
change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #12 / 161
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16051 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #2686 / 4194
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10699 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1398 / 3695
  • Number of attempts: 3
Words in parens - 12969 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2734 / 3970
  • Number of attempts: 1

Contributed Challenges

change parenthesis - 296 entries

change the pair of braces into a pair of parentheses

Hash staircase - 56 entries

Can you use a strategy to come up with this pattern?

Rohit Jena
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Wrangling with pixels and voxels @Penn @AmazonLab126 Previously at @CarnegieMellon @IITBombay @Microsoft Socratic thinker in-progress

entered into 12 challenges

contributed 2 challenges