Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1660 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #145 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33724 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: #1914 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 15
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #291 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 6
One number per line - 18755 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #552 / 3870
  • Number of attempts: 19
V to the i - 4813 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #680 / 1897
  • Number of attempts: 4
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1046 / 3072
  • Number of attempts: 7
Bad Copy Syntax - 2044 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #113 / 530
  • Number of attempts: 8
Split line with dots - 2154 entries

This line is too long, split it.

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #532 / 635
  • Number of attempts: 9
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #287 / 1169
  • Number of attempts: 4
Com(m)a Trouble - 3875 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #275 / 876
  • Number of attempts: 7
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #193 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 11
Every other line - 2915 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #45 / 704
  • Number of attempts: 12
Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1288 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 7
Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #194 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 9
Vice versa - 7945 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #493 / 2138
  • Number of attempts: 6
One to Ten - 2227 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: #178 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 10
Array transposition - 2425 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #19 / 449
  • Number of attempts: 13
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #927 / 4189
  • Number of attempts: 8
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #264 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 6
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1758 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 2
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #570 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 5
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