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

Rural Post - 4552 entries

Simple challenge to remove all but the post code on each line

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 113
  • Position: #1098 / 1110
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 59
  • Position: #7406 / 7447
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 50
  • Position: #1540 / 1549
  • Number of attempts: 3
Add semicolons - 10887 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 127
  • Position: #3070 / 3074
  • Number of attempts: 1
Words in parens - 12967 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 53
  • Position: #3952 / 3969
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 411
  • Position: #3743 / 3745
  • Number of attempts: 1
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