Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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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: 27
  • Position: #4031 / 7450
  • Number of attempts: 4
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6358 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #473 / 1551
  • Number of attempts: 7
Quote modules - 1094 entries

Complete golang import statement.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 37
  • Position: #259 / 285
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10889 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2288 / 3076
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3610 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #739 / 1172
  • Number of attempts: 4
Every other line - 2922 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #53 / 706
  • Number of attempts: 10
switch variable - 5085 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #972 / 1750
  • Number of attempts: 7
remove dupes from array - 1358 entries

given a random string that contains a ruby-esque array, make sure that there are no duplicate elements

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 24
  • Position: #236 / 336
  • Number of attempts: 4
Simple text editing with Vim - 13092 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1845 / 3765
  • Number of attempts: 4
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