Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Move to corresponding lines - 251 entries

Move the values to the corresponding lines.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #23 / 57
  • Number of attempts: 6
Rearrange array to single level - 1396 entries

The goal is to flatten the array into a single list and remove any empty elements.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 98
  • Position: #215 / 229
  • Number of attempts: 1
Copy punctuation - 521 entries

I want to copy the last line’s brackets, quotes, and commas to each line. How?

  • Best score: 19
  • Best player score: 48
  • Position: #99 / 133
  • Number of attempts: 1
months to html list items - 1042 entries

Turn the months into list items.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 30
  • Position: #210 / 284
  • Number of attempts: 2
delete swap - 1788 entries

delete all swap

  • Best score: 5
  • Best player score: 5
  • Position: #369 / 557
  • Number of attempts: 7
Visual block training - 1075 entries

You see the input. You see the output. Go.

  • Best score: 17
  • Best player score: 61
  • Position: #168 / 205
  • Number of attempts: 2
Put a newline after every 10 lines in vim - 1660 entries

Goal is to put a newline after every 10 lines in vim.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 13
  • Position: #414 / 558
  • Number of attempts: 1
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: 30
  • Position: #5375 / 7442
  • Number of attempts: 3
A grid of punctuation - 137 entries

Create a checkerboard of = and - in an 80×24 grid!

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 63
  • Position: #61 / 61
  • Number of attempts: 1
Generate a list of numbers - 295 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 31
  • Position: #138 / 140
  • Number of attempts: 1
Collect List - 4305 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 17
  • Position: #1014 / 1191
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 12996 entries

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

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #2044 / 3739
  • Number of attempts: 6
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