Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

xrandr outputs and dashes - 716 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 39
  • Position: #221 / 224
  • Number of attempts: 2
From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 776 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

  • Best score: 18
  • Best player score: 40
  • Position: #169 / 172
  • Number of attempts: 1
Yo To Hello - 1144 entries

Simply Turn Yo To Hello

  • Best score: 8
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #470 / 530
  • Number of attempts: 1
Replace pattern with 1, 2, 3, ... on each line - 1150 entries

For each line replace a search pattern (in this case $) with numbers starting at 1 and then increasing by 1 for each replaced match. a$b$c$ -> a0b1c2

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 43
  • Position: #212 / 232
  • Number of attempts: 3
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: 30
  • Position: #5352 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 4
Get mail address from outlook format - 649 entries

Create a mail list space separated of mail list formatted by outlook

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #134 / 204
  • Number of attempts: 2
Swap values - 4643 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1098 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 10
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: #603 / 1549
  • Number of attempts: 4
One number per line - 18776 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #1982 / 3875
  • Number of attempts: 4
Swap values inside brackets - 2511 entries

Easy challenge.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #350 / 583
  • Number of attempts: 4
V to the i - 4818 entries

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

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #1826 / 1898
  • Number of attempts: 1
Applying same text modification in several lines - 2897 entries

Remove identical text at the beginning of several lines and the closing parenthesis.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #467 / 857
  • 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: #2058 / 3074
  • Number of attempts: 3
remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3604 entries

easy stuff

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1062 / 1169
  • Number of attempts: 5
Com(m)a Trouble - 3880 entries

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

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 28
  • Position: #746 / 878
  • Number of attempts: 4
Box it - 7916 entries

Create a box around a line.

  • Best score: 21
  • Best player score: 36
  • Position: #1658 / 1881
  • Number of attempts: 3
Search and Replace 0 - 5007 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1067 / 1631
  • Number of attempts: 2
Just the middle - 11495 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 8
  • Position: #3079 / 4213
  • Number of attempts: 6
Basic renumbering - 5683 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 27
  • Position: #1192 / 1269
  • Number of attempts: 3
ninja substitution - 1420 entries

How can you reuse a previous substitution ?

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 18
  • Position: #187 / 267
  • Number of attempts: 13
Vice versa - 7953 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 41
  • Position: #2092 / 2140
  • Number of attempts: 2
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: 25
  • Position: #651 / 677
  • Number of attempts: 3
Increment each number - 1025 entries

Increment each number individually by one

  • Best score: 15
  • Best player score: 32
  • Position: #227 / 249
  • Number of attempts: 2
Collect List - 4308 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 25
  • Position: #1161 / 1192
  • Number of attempts: 2
I forgot quotes - 16038 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #2364 / 4192
  • Number of attempts: 3
-a-b-c- - 3216 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #868 / 1138
  • Number of attempts: 3
A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10688 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 15
  • Position: #3209 / 3691
  • Number of attempts: 4
attr_aligner - 3522 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 42
  • Position: #645 / 703
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #2748 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 4
switch variable - 5079 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1592 / 1749
  • Number of attempts: 2
Simple text editing with Vim - 13017 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1872 / 3745
  • Number of attempts: 3
Reformat/Refactor a Golfer Class - 7173 entries

A simple case of removing unneeded code and fixing broken indentation.

  • Best score: 28
  • Best player score: 59
  • Position: #1587 / 1761
  • Number of attempts: 1
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