Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33616 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: 23
  • Position: #2697 / 7420
  • Number of attempts: 10
One number per line - 18727 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #990 / 3864
  • Number of attempts: 11
Add semicolons - 10852 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #305 / 3063
  • Number of attempts: 5
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3586 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #328 / 1162
  • Number of attempts: 6
Box it - 7905 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #513 / 1876
  • Number of attempts: 9
Just the middle - 11454 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #2960 / 4197
  • Number of attempts: 4
Team names - 1836 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 29
  • Position: #580 / 588
  • Number of attempts: 2
Line under headers - 2044 entries

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

  • Best score: 24
  • Best player score: 35
  • Position: #372 / 503
  • Number of attempts: 1
Increment each number - 1023 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #42 / 248
  • Number of attempts: 8
Reorder the groups - 1181 entries

Change the order so that the groups of fruit come before the vegetables.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #59 / 264
  • Number of attempts: 12
I forgot quotes - 15983 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2324 / 4180
  • Number of attempts: 6
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10663 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1450 / 3683
  • Number of attempts: 4
ASCII-art Histogram - 320 entries

Create an ASCCI-art histogram for the given numbers. Make sure not to leave trailing whitespaces. Thanks to VimGolf I recently discovered a feature of Vim thAT blew my mind. I'm curious to see what real ninjas make of it ;-)

  • Best score: 33
  • Best player score: 128
  • Position: #56 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 1
Przemysław Michalak
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