Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Inverting Lines - 1907 entries

A simple challenge to invert all lines, except the first.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #273 / 512
  • Number of attempts: 5
Simple, Practical, and Common - 33742 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: #4034 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6353 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #477 / 1549
  • Number of attempts: 5
Aliases for cd - 879 entries

Create these beautiful aliases with as few strokes as possible. Are you up for the challenge?

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 62
  • Position: #128 / 155
  • Number of attempts: 1
V to the i - 4818 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #713 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 2
Add semicolons - 10887 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #2037 / 3074
  • Number of attempts: 2
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #364 / 1169
  • Number of attempts: 1
Com(m)a Trouble - 3880 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #571 / 878
  • Number of attempts: 3
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 26
  • Position: #1096 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 2
Every other line - 2916 entries

AaAaAaA

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #56 / 705
  • Number of attempts: 7
Copy three lines - 2875 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #348 / 641
  • Number of attempts: 3
Vice versa - 7953 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #1114 / 2140
  • Number of attempts: 5
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: 20
  • Position: #574 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 2
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1491 / 3691
  • Number of attempts: 3
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1247 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 1
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