Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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Played Challenges

Yo To Hello - 1142 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #163 / 529
  • 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: 34
  • Position: #6448 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 2
prepend * to every non-blank line - 6337 entries

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

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #790 / 1546
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10881 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #1496 / 3072
  • Number of attempts: 6
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1060 / 1169
  • Number of attempts: 5
Just the middle - 11484 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #3873 / 4209
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16022 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1968 / 4189
  • Number of attempts: 1
Justin Or
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Friendship ended with AI. Now security is my new best friend.

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