Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

months to html list items - 1088 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 213
  • Position: #295 / 295
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 20
  • Position: #305 / 566
  • Number of attempts: 6
Rural Post - 4567 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #190 / 1114
  • Number of attempts: 13
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: 22
  • Position: #1915 / 7455
  • Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18801 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #981 / 3882
  • Number of attempts: 8
Swap values inside brackets - 2521 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #572 / 585
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4824 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #1409 / 1899
  • Number of attempts: 1
SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case - 1240 entries

Convert strings in SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE to Title Case. Examples: EMPLOYEE_NAME -> Employee Name REVENUE_YEAR_TO_DATE -> Revenue Year To Date SALARY -> Salary

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #124 / 257
  • Number of attempts: 11
Add semicolons - 10899 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #204 / 3078
  • Number of attempts: 14
Box it - 7954 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 21
  • Position: #194 / 1886
  • Number of attempts: 12
multiple cursor alternative - 1547 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #367 / 385
  • Number of attempts: 2
Two pairs of cluster of letters creates word - 751 entries

Clean and group.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 65
  • Position: #175 / 179
  • Number of attempts: 1
Just the middle - 11509 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1286 / 4218
  • Number of attempts: 3
One to Ten - 2240 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: 23
  • Position: #624 / 681
  • Number of attempts: 2
citizen_hacks_2019_challenge5 - 147 entries

For the Citizen Hacks 2019 Vim competition.

  • Best score: 6
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #62 / 77
  • Number of attempts: 3
Line under headers - 2072 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #116 / 510
  • Number of attempts: 11
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